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Record Id:

032-002250079

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002250079

MDARK:

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ISAD(G)

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Add MS 40724

Title:

Georgios Choumnos, Metrical Paraphrase of Genesis and Exodus

Scope & Content:

Georgios Choumnos, Metrical Paraphrase of Genesis and Exodus. 4 modern Greek rhymed couplets, probably of c. 1600, comment on the "barbarous" orthography and illustrations, f ix recto.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Additional Manuscripts
Greek Manuscripts

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Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

137 folios

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Languages:

Greek, Modern

Scripts:

Greek

Start Date:

1400

End Date:

1599

Date Range:

15th century-16th century

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Paper.

Foliation: ff ix (i-vii, unfoliated blank page, viii) + 137 + i (foliated as ix) + v.

Dimensions: 205 x 140 mm.

Ruling: irregular, because of the illustrations throughout the text.

Binding: modern binding of brown leather.

Decoration: 373 illustrations in ink and colour, including, on f 1r, a representation of the Trinity with the author kneeling below. The illustrations on ff 12r-14v are by a different artist.

Custodial History:

Belonged to St Catherine's Monastery on Mount Sinai: note on f 137v, threatening curses on anyone who removes the book from the mountain.

On f viii recto is a note in cypher (dated 20 June 1646) attacking the steward of the Sinaitic Μετόχιον at Cairo, whose conduct had involved the monastery in a heavy fine. Decipherments of this note and a key to the cypher (by J. P. Gilson) and a corrected decipherment and tentative translation (by F. H. Marshall) are bound in at the beginning, ff iii recto-vii recto.

Owned by Sir Thomas Brooke, Bart., of Armitage Bridge, Huddersfield: his bookplate of arms, f i recto.

Owned by the Rev. W. Ingham Brooke, Barford Rectory, Warwick, 1908: his ownership inscription, f ii verso.

Sold at Sotheby's, 20 Dec. 1921 (lot 321) and again on 13 Nov. 1922 (lot 270), when it was bought by the British Museum.

Publications:

Old Testament Legends from a Greek Poem on Genesis and Exodus by George Chumnos. Edited with introduction, metrical translation, notes and glossary from a manuscript in the British Museum, ed. F. H. Marshall, Cambridge 1925.

Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum, 1921-1925, London 1950, pp. 142-143.

M. Richard, Inventaire des manuscrits grecs du British Museum I, Fonds Sloane, Additional, Egerton, Cottonian et Stowe, Paris 1952, p. 82.

K. W. Clark, Checklist of manuscripts in St. Catherine's monastery, Mount Sinai, microfilmed for the Library of Congress, 1949-50, Washington 1952, pp. 28-31.

M. I. Manoussakas, 'Ὁ ποιητὴς Γεώργιος Χοῦμνος, νοτάριος Χάνδακος', Ἐπετηρὶς Ἑταιρείας Βυζαντινῶν Σπουδῶν 21 (1951) pp. 280-282.

Γεωργίου Χούμνου Ἡ Κοσμογέννησις. Ἀνέκδοτον στιχούργημα τοῦ ΙΕ´ αἰῶνος, ἔμμετρος παράφρασις τῆς Γενέσεως καὶ Ἐξόδου τῆς Παλαιᾶς Διαθήκης, ed. G. A. Mégas, Athens 1975.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)