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Add MS 22506
- Record Id:
- 032-002169478
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002169478
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000002031.0x000140
- LARK:
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- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 22506
- Title:
- Four Gospels (Greg.-Aland 645 e; Gregory 645; Scrivener evan. 591; von Soden ε 434).
- Scope & Content:
- Four Gospels (Greg.-Aland 645 e; Gregory 645; Scrivener evan. 591; von Soden ε 434).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
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- [{ "id" : "032-002169478", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Add MS 22506: Four Gospels (Greg.-Aland 645 e; Gregory 645; Scrivener evan. 591; von Soden ε 434)." , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-002169479", "parent" : "032-002169478", "text" : "Add MS 22506, f 1: A pasted note written by Rev. Henry O. Coxe, Keeper of the Bodleian Library, Melos, 31 March 1857." },{ "id" : "040-002169480", "parent" : "032-002169478", "text" : "Add MS 22506, ff 5v-85v: Matthew, preceded by chapter-titles (ff 3-4)and a portrait of St Matthew the Evangelist (f 5v)." },{ "id" : "040-002169481", "parent" : "032-002169478", "text" : "Add MS 22506, ff 88-135v: Mark, preceded by chapter-titles (ff 86-87) and a portrait of St Mark the Evangelist (f 87v)." },{ "id" : "040-002169482", "parent" : "032-002169478", "text" : "Add MS 22506, ff 139-218v: Luke, preceded by chapter-titles (ff 136-137v) and a portrait of St Luke the Evangelist (f 138)." },{ "id" : "040-002169483", "parent" : "032-002169478", "text" : "Add MS 22506, ff 220-279: John, preceded by chapter-titles (ff 218-219) and a portrait of St John the Evangelist (ff 219v)." }]
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- 032-002169478
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- not applicable
- Contains:
- Add MS 22506, f 1 : A pasted note written by Rev. Henry O. Coxe, Keeper of the Bodleian Library, Melos, 31 March 1857.
Add MS 22506, ff 5v-85v : Matthew, preceded by chapter-titles (ff 3-4)and a portrait of St Matthew the Evangelist (f 5v).
Add MS 22506, ff 88-135v : Mark, preceded by chapter-titles (ff 86-87) and a portrait of St Mark the Evangelist (f 87v).
Add MS 22506, ff 139-218v : Luke, preceded by chapter-titles (ff 136-137v) and a portrait of St Luke the Evangelist (f 138).
Add MS 22506, ff 220-279 : John, preceded by chapter-titles (ff 218-219) and a portrait of St John the Evangelist (ff 219v).
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- 5 items
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 1304
- End Date:
- 1305
- Date Range:
- 1304-1305
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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- Material: Parchment ff 3-279; paper ff 1-2.
- Foliation: ff 279.
- Dimensions: 245 x 182 mm.
- Ruling: Written in 1 column, 22 lines per column.
- Binding: Full red velvet binding, 'alla greca' style.
- Scribes: Neophutos (Kuprios) (Νεόφυτος [Κύπριος], Repertorium 1A, no. 295). f 219: ἐγράφη ἐν ἔτη ͵ςωιγ': + ἰνδ. γ': —/ Δι' ἐμοῦ τοῦ ἐν ἱεροδιακόνοις ἐλαχίστου/ οἰκτροῦ Νεοφύτου καὶ τάχα μοναχοῦ : + τοῦ Κυπρίου:—Καὶ οἱ ἐντυγχάνοντες αὐτὸ εὔχεσθε ὑπὲρ ἐμοῦ διὰ τὸν κύριον:+.
- Custodial History:
- f 1. 'The four Gospels: written in the year 1305 by a monk of Cyprus; as appears from a note at the end of the table of chapters prefixed to St. John's Gospel [f 219]. I bought this at Milo of a Greek gentleman Μιχαηλ Συρμαλενεα, who told me that he had it from a Relation who had been the ἡγούμενος of the Monastery of Preveli in Candia. H.O.C.'
- Source of Acquisition:
- Received from Sir George Cornewall Lewis, Bt, formerly Chancellor of the Exchequer, 29 July 1858.
- Publications:
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- Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum, 1854-1860 (London, 1875), pp. 654-55.
- H. Omont, 'Notes sur les manuscrits grecs du British Museum', Bibliothèque de l'École des Chartes, 45 (1884), p. 347 (p. 36 in the offprint, which is paginated 1-40).
- F. H. A. Scrivener, A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament for the Use of Biblical Students, 2 vols. (London, 4th edn., 1894), vol. 1, p. 259 (Evan. 591).
- C. R. Gregory, Textkritik des Neuen Testamentes, vol. 1 (Leipzig, 1900), p. 208.
- H. von Soden, Die Schriften des Neuen Testaments in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Textgestalt hergestellt auf Grund ihrer Textgeschichte, 4 vols. (Berlin, 1902-13), vol. 1, p. 194 (ε 434).
- E. M. Thompson et al., eds., New Palaeographical Society, Facsimiles of Ancient Manuscripts, etc., Series I and II (London, 1903-1932), I, plate 205.
- A. M. Friend, Jr., 'The Portraits of the Evangelists in Greek and Latin Manuscripts, Part II', Art Studies Mediaeval, Renaissance and Modern, 7 (1929), 3-29 (p. 13, plate vii).
- M. Richard, Inventaire des manuscrits grecs du British Museum I, Fonds Sloane, Additional, Egerton, Cottonian et Stowe (Paris, 1952), p. 39.
- R. Devreesse, Introduction à l'étude des manuscrits grecs (Paris, 1954), p. 57, 313.
- K. Weitzmann, Geistige Grundlagen und Wesen der makedonischen Renaissance (Cologne and Opladen, 1963), p. 45, fig. 45.
- A. Turyn, Dated Greek Manuscripts of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries in the Libraries of Great Britain (Dumbarton Oaks, 1980), pp. 66-69, plates 46, 109a.
- R. Barbour, Greek Literary Hands A.D. 400-1600 (Oxford, 1981), p. 19 (no. 70).
- E. Gamillscheg and D. Harlfinger, Repertorium der griechischen Kopisten 800-1600, 1: Grossbritannien, 3 vols (Vienna, 1981), no. 295.
- I. Spatharakis, Corpus of Dated Illuminated Greek Manuscripts to the Year 1453, (Byzantina Neerlandica 8), 2 vols, Leiden 1981, p. 57, no. 222.
- C. Constantinides and R. Browning, Dated Greek Manuscripts from Cyprus to the Year 1570 (Washington-Nicosia, 1993), pp. 134-137.
- K. Aland, Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testaments (Berlin and New York, 2nd edn., 1994), p. 85 (GA 645).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Kuprios, Neophutos, fl Early 14th century