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Add MS 8238
- Record Id:
- 032-002168111
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002168111
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000002031.0x0000b2
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 8238
- Title:
- Paisios Hagiopostolites, Metropolites of Rhodes, Verse history of Mount Sinai and its environs
- Scope & Content:
- Paisios Hagiopostolites, Metropolites of Rhodes, Verse history of Mount Sinai and its environs. The verses give a historical and geographical account of Mount Sinai, its environs and associated places. They include a description of the Monastery of St. Catherine. According to Paisios his history was based on his own experience of living as a hieromonk at the Monastery of St. Catherine and was written at the monastery's metochion in Cairo (see lines 1109-1110, 1148, 1151, 2265-2266).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
Greek Manuscripts - Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002168111
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002168111
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_8238 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Modern
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 1600
- End Date:
- 1699
- Date Range:
- 17th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Letter of introduction required to view this manuscript
- Physical Characteristics:
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- Material: Paper.
- Foliation: ff i + 73. Gatherings of 16 leaves, except the last, with two inserted leaves (ff 17, 27): 116+1 (ff 1-17), 216+1 (ff 18-34), 3-416 (ff 35-66), 58-1 (ff 67-73).
- Dimensions: 104 x 72 mm. Text-block: 74 x 50 mm. 16 lines to a page.
- Binding: Contemporary binding of blind-stamped leather over pasteboard, now lacking two thongs.
- Scribes: At the end of the volume (f 73v) is a scribal note identifying the copyist as Isaios.
- Custodial History:
- Armorial bookplate (front pastedown) of the Hon. Frederic North, later 5th Earl of Guilford, inscribed in pencil with the shelfmark 'u.a.L/10/A' and the numbers '567' and '550'.
- Source of Acquisition:
- Purchased, together with Add MSS 8225, 8234-8236, 8239-8242, from R. H. Evans, 8 December 1830, lot 550 (part).
- Publications:
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- A. I. Papadopoulos-Kerameus, ed., Paisiou Hagiopostolitou Metropolitou Rodou, Historia tou Hagiou Orou Sina kai tôn perichôrôn autou. Emmetron sungrama, syntachthen metaxy tôn etôn 1577-1592 (St. Petersburg, 1891): a text of the history, based on two further manuscripts (Paris, B.N.F., MS. suppl. grec 680; Mount Sinai, Monastery of St. Catherine, Greek MS. 534).
- M. Richard, Inventaire des manuscrits grecs du British Museum I, Fonds Sloane, Additional, Egerton, Cottonian et Stowe (Paris, 1952), p. 9.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)