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Add MS 24373
- Record Id:
- 032-002227909
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002227909
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000063.0x000188
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100187623859.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 24373
- Title:
- Four Gospels (Gregory-Aland 695; Scrivener evan. 599; von Soden ε 327)
- Scope & Content:
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Four Gospels (Gregory-Aland 695; Scrivener evan. 599; von Soden ε 327).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
Greek Manuscripts - Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002227909
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Contains:
- Add MS 24373, ff 1r-11v : Synaxarion, ff 1r-4v, followed by Menologion, ff 4v-11v.
Add MS 24373, ff 11v-15v : Eusebius of Caesarea, Epistula ad Carpianum ad canones evangeliorum praemissa (TLG 2018.013), ff 11v-12v, followed by…
Add MS 24373, ff 16r-66r : Gospel of Matthew, ff 20r-66r (imperfect, lacking 1:11-15:19), preceded by capitula, ff 16r-17v, a summary, ff 17v-18v,…
Add MS 24373, ff 66v-125v : Gospel of Mark, ff 69r-125v, preceded by capitula, ff 66v-67v, a summary, ff 67v-68r, and a portrait of St Mark…
Add MS 24373, ff 126r-228v : Gospel of Luke, ff 130r-228v, preceded by capitula, ff 126r-128r, a summary, ff 128r-129r, and a portrait of St Luke…
Add MS 24373, ff 228v-299v : Gospel of John, ff 232r-299v, preceded by capitula, ff 228v-229r, a summary, ff 229r-230v, and a portrait of St John…
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- 032-002227909
- Container:
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 299 folios
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100187623859.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 1200
- End Date:
- 1299
- Date Range:
- 13th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Foliation: ff 299. Three unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and four at the end.
Dimensions: 235 x 180 mm.
Ruling: 140 x 120 mm, 20 lines per page.
Binding: British Library, 1984, half-leather binding. A previous (19th-century?) binding of brown leather is kept separately under Add MS 24373/1.
Decoration: Illuminated headpieces throughout, and illuminated portraits of the evangelists on ff 19v, 68v, 129v, and 231v.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Eastern Mediterranean.
- Source of Acquisition:
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Purchased at the sale of Henry Stanhope Freeman (d. 1865), Vice-Consul at Janina (Greece), 11 January 1862.
- Administrative Context:
- Eastern Mediterranean.
- 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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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum, 1861-1875, London 1877, p. 60.
F. H. A. Scrivener, A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, 2 vols, 4th edn, London 1894, vol. 1, p. 260.
C. R. Gregory, Textkritik des Neuen Testamentes, 3 vols, Leipzig 1900-1909, vol. 1, p. 213, vol. 3, p. 1110.
Hermann von Soden, Die Schriften des Neuen Testaments, in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Textgestalt hergestellt auf Grund ihrer Textgeschichte, 4 vols, Berlin 1902-1910, vol. 1, p. 175.
M. Richard, Inventaire des manuscrits grecs du British Museum I, Fonds Sloane, Additional, Egerton, Cottonian et Stowe, Paris 1952, p. 44.
K. Aland, Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des neuen Testaments (Arbeiten zur neutestamentlichen Textforschung 1), Berlin 1994, p. 88.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Freeman, Henry Stanhope, Vice-Consul at Janina and Governor of the Lagos Colony, d 1865
- Related Archive Descriptions:
- Add MS 24373/1