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Add MS 47774
- Record Id:
- 032-002169744
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002169744
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000002031.0x000161
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 47774
- Title:
- Gospel Lectionary in Modern Greek in the translation of Maximos Kallioupolites (d.1633), whose New Testament was printed posthumously in 1638
- Scope & Content:
- Gospel lectionary in Modern Greek in the translation of Maximos Kallioupolites (d.1633), whose New Testament was printed posthumously in 1638.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002169744
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002169744
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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296 folios
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_47774 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
Greek, Modern - Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 1600
- End Date:
- 1699
- Date Range:
- 17th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper.
Foliation: ff 296. Eight unfoliated contemporary paper flyleaves at the beginning and twelve at the end.
Dimensions: 290 x 195 mm.
Ruling: 205 x 140 mm, written in 2 columns (except the hypotheses) of 27 lines.
Binding: Gold-tooled leather stamped in Slavonic style of the late 17th century, with portraits of the four evangelists in each corner of the covers and the Resurrection and Nativity at the centre of the upper and lower covers.
Decoration: Pen drawings of the four evangelists on ff. 1v, 35v, 89v, and 167v. That on f. 35v is signed γεώργιος ψτ.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Eastern Mediterranean (Balkans?).
Provenance:
Likely in Constantinople: Red book-stamp `WG (or GW) (monogram) CONS/PLE', probably 19th cent.
- Source of Acquisition:
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Transferred from the Department of Oriental Antiquities, British Museum, 15 October 1952.
- Administrative Context:
- Eastern Mediterranean (Balkans?).
- Information About Copies:
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Complete digital coverage available for this manuscript; see Digitised Manuscripts [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts]
- Publications:
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C. Sepp, 'Het Nieuw-Grieksche Testament van 1638', in C. Sepp, Bibliografische mededeelingen, Leiden 1883, pp. 188-256.
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Library, 1951-1955, London 1982, pp.66-67.
The British Library Summary Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts, I, London 1999, p. 264.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Kallipolites, Maximos, translator of the New Testament into Modern Greek, d 1633