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Egerton MS 2163

Record Id:

032-002228008

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002228008

MDARK:

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ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Egerton MS 2163

Title:

Gospel Lectionary with ekphonetic notation (Gregory-Aland l 339; Scrivener evst. 59)

Scope & Content:

Gospel Lectionary with ekphonetic notation (Gregory-Aland l 339; Scrivener evst. 59).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Egerton Manuscripts
Greek Manuscripts

Hierarchy Tree:

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032-002228008

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Egerton MS 2163, ff 1v-31v : Gospel lections for the Easter Period, starting from Easter Sunday and ending with Sunday of Pentecost, ff…
Egerton MS 2163, ff 32r-64v : Gospel lections from the Gospel of Matthew until 11th Sunday of Matthew.
Egerton MS 2163, ff 64v-81v : Daily Gospel lections from Mark.
Egerton MS 2163, ff 82r-146v : Daily Gospel lections from Luke ending with Triodion Lections and beginning of Lent. On f 140r there is a…
Egerton MS 2163, ff 147r-200r : Gospel lections for Lent, starting from Saturday of the 1st week of Lent and ending with Holy Saturday.
Egerton MS 2163, ff 200v-207v : Menologion, mutilated, ff 200v-204v, followed by the Eothina Gospels, imperfect at the end, up to the 10th Gospel,…

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Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

207 folios

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Languages:

Greek, Ancient

Scripts:

Greek

Start Date:

1150

End Date:

1199

Date Range:

2nd half of the 12th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment.

Foliation: ff 207. Three unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and three at the end.

Dimensions: 200 x 70 mm.

Ruling: 280 x 190 mm, written in two columns, 25 lines per column.

Binding: Half black, 18th century.

Decoration: 1 full-page miniature of Christ and the four Evangelists in colours on a gold ground (f 1v). 5 headpieces in colours and gold (ff 2r, 32r, 82r, 147r, 200v). Large initials in gold, or in gold and colours. Simple endpieces in gold. Chrysography. Accents in red.

Custodial History:

Origin: Eastern Mediterranean (Constantinople?)

Provenance:

Possibly produced at Constantinople: Chalkoprateia in Constantinople is mentioned in an inscription: 'ἐν δὲ τοῖς Χαλκοπρατίοις ἀναγινώσκεται εὐαγγέλιον ἐκ τοῦ κατὰ Λουκᾶν' (f 201r).

A prayer on f140r was possibly added by a later owner: '[....] / τη συμβίου αὐτοῦ, καὶ τῶν τέκνον αυτοῦ / +ἔτι δεόμεθα ὑπὲρ τοῦ δούλου (τοῦ Θεοῦ) Ιῶ καὶ Μιχαελ /καὶ Μαρίας καὶ Σοφίας. ++'

Source of Acquisition:

Bought by the British Museum on 5 February 1872 from Sotheby's, using the Farnborough Fund (£3,000 bequeathed in 1838 by Charles Long, Baron Farnborough (b. 1761, d. 1838), a cousin of Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater (b. 1756, d. 1829), founder of the collection.

Administrative Context:

Eastern Mediterranean (Constantinople?)

Information About Copies:

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Publications:

Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum, 1861-1875, vol. 2, London 1877, p. 992.

F. H. A. Scrivener, A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament for the Use of Biblical Students, 2 vols, 4th edn, London 1894, vol. 1, p. 332.

C. R. Gregory, Textkritik des Neuen Testamentes, 3 vols, Leipzig 1900-1909, vol. 1, p. 416.

A guide to the exhibition of some part of the Egerton Collection of manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1929, p. 20, no. 62.

M. Richard, Inventaire des manuscrits grecs du British Museum I, Fonds Sloane, Additional, Egerton, Cottonian et Stowe, Paris 1952, p. 85.

G. Galavaris, The Illustrations of the Prefaces in Byzantine Gospels, Vienna 1979, pp. 77, 141, fig. 59.

Α. W. Carr, 'A Group of Provincial Manuscripts from the Twelfth Century', Dumbarton Oaks Papers 36 (1982) pp. 39-81 (p. 51).

Α. W. Carr, 'Gospel Frontispieces from the Comnenian Period', Gesta 21 (1982) pp. 3-20, (p. 4).

K. Aland, Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des neuen Testaments (Arbeiten zur neutestamentlichen Textforschung 1), Berlin 1994, p. 239.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)