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Add MS 82957
- Record Id:
- 032-002227975
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002227975
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000063.0x000192
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 82957
- Title:
- Gospel Lectionary (Gregory-Aland l 2376) with illumination and ekphonetic notation
- Scope & Content:
- Gospel Lectionary (Gregory-Aland l 2376) with illumination and ekphonetic notation. Mutilated and extremely fragile.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
Greek Manuscripts - Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002227975
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Contains:
- Add MS 82957, ff 1r-57v : Gospel lections for the Easter period, starting from Easter Sunday and ending with Saturday after Pentecost.
Add MS 82957, ff 59r-92v : Gospel lections from Saturday 1st of Matthew to Sunday 17th of Matthew.
Add MS 82957, ff 93r-136v : Gospel lections from 1st Saturday of the New Year to Friday of the Forefeast of Saturday of St Theodore in Lent.
Add MS 82957, ff 137r-228v : Gospel lections from Saturday of St Theodore to Holy Thursday, ff 137r-209v, followed by lections from the Hours of…
Add MS 82957, ff 229r-232v : Eothina, imperfect, up to the beginning of the 8th (fragments, ff 229r-v, 232r-v).
Add MS 82957, ff 233r-318v : Synaxarion, Gospel lections starting from September and ending with 29 of August, imperfect at the end, up to Mark…
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- 032-002227975
- Container:
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- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 318 folios
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_82957 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 1050
- End Date:
- 1099
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 11th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Foliation: ff iv + 318. f iii is a book plate pasted on the inside front board.
Dimensions: 325 x 210 mm.
Ruling: 200 x 60 mm, written in two columns, 18 lines per column.
Binding: Brown leather (wild boar), on millboards. Blind-tooled, probably 19th century. The edges can be seen on Digitised Manuscripts: fore-edge (f v recto), upper edge (f vi recto), lower edge (f vii recto). Two images taken with raking light of the front and back covers can be see as f viii recto and f ix recto, respectively.
Spine: gold-tooled in Capital Greek: ΜΗΝΟΛΟΓΙΟΝ/ ΧΓ
Decoration: Illuminated headpieces (ff 1r, 59r, 93r, 137r, 233r) and headbands (ff 210r, 230r, 248v, 257v, 263r, 278r, 292r, 297r, 300r, 301v, 302v, 309r, 312r). Decorated initials, frequently zoomorphic or historiated. Headings and some writing in gold. Occasional flourishes to letters on the final line of a page, especially χ, φ, λ, ι, and ξ.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Eastern Mediterranean (Constantinople).
Provenance:
Produced in the workshop of the 'Copiste du Métaphraste', according to Hutter 2000.
Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford (1766-1827), colonial governor and philhellene: his armorial bookplate (f iii) and book-stamp (f ii verso); his sale, 8 December 1830, lot 496 (f ii verso).
Sir Thomas Phillipps, baronet (1792-1872), collector of books and manuscripts: his ownership inscription, f ii verso. Acquired by Phillipps from Payne and Foss: "Payne" inscribed on f ii verso.
Deposited as Loan MS 36/23 with the British Museum in 1949 by A. G. Fenwick and the Trustees of the Fenwick Settlement.
- Former External References:
- Phillipps MS 7667
- Former Internal References:
- Loan 36/23
- Source of Acquisition:
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Allocated to the British Library by HM Government in lieu of Inheritance Tax under the Acceptance in Lieu (AIL) Scheme, 2007.
- Administrative Context:
- Eastern Mediterranean (Constantinople).
- Information About Copies:
- Complete digital coverage available for this manuscript; see Digitised Manuscripts [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_82957].
- Publications:
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A. N. L. Munby, Phillipps Studies, 5 vols, Cambridge 1951-1960, vol. 3 (1954), pp. 56, 162.
J.-M. Olivier, Répertoire des bibliothèques et des catalogues de manuscrits grecs de Marcel Richard, 3rd edn, Turnhout 1995, pp. 214-224.
I. Hutter, 'Le copiste du Métaphraste. On a centre for manuscript production in eleventh century Constantinople', in I manoscritti greci tra riflessione e dibattito: Atti del V Colloquio Internazionale di Paleografia Greca (Cremona, 4-10 ottobre 1998), ed. Giancarlo Prato, Florence 2000, pp. 535-86, especially pp. 562-564.
K. Aland, Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des neuen Testaments (Arbeiten zur neutestamentlichen Textforschung 1), Berlin 1994, p. 368.
A. Touwaide, 'Byzantine Medical Manuscripts. Towards a new catalogue with a specimen for an annotade checklist of manuscripts based on an index of Diels' catalogue', Byzantion 79 (2009), pp. 453-595 (p. 512).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)