Hard-coded id of currently selected item: . JSON version of its record is available from Blacklight on e.g. ??

Metadata associated with selected item should appear here...

Add MS 40753

Record Id:

032-002254871

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002254871

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000063.0x0001f9

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Add MS 40753

Title:

Psalter and Canticles

Scope & Content:

Psalter and Canticles.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Additional Manuscripts
Greek Manuscripts

Hierarchy Tree:

[{ "id" : "032-002254871", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Add MS 40753: Psalter and Canticles" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} },{ "id" : "040-002254885", "parent" : "032-002254871", "text" : "Add MS 40753, ff 1r-146r: Psalms." },{ "id" : "040-002254901", "parent" : "032-002254871", "text" : "Add MS 40753, ff 146v-163v: Canticles." }]

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002254871

Is part of:

not applicable

Contains:

Add MS 40753, ff 1r-146r : Psalms.
Add MS 40753, ff 146v-163v : Canticles.

Click here to View / search full list of parts of Add MS 40753

Hierarchy:

032-002254871

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 40753

Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

163 folios

Digitised Content:

http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_40753 (digital images currently unavailable)

Thumbnail:

Languages:

Greek, Ancient

Scripts:

Greek

Start Date:

1150

End Date:

1199

Date Range:

2nd half of the 12th century

Era:

Access:

Please request the physical items you need using the online collection item request form.

Digitised items can be viewed online by clicking the thumbnail image or digitised content link.

Readers who have registered or renewed their pass since 21 March 2024 can request physical items prior to visiting the Library by completing
this request form.
Please enter the Reference (shelfmark) above on the request form.

If your Reader Pass was issued before this date, you will need to visit the Library in London or Yorkshire to renew it before you can request items online. All manuscripts and archives must be consulted at the Library in London.

This catalogue record may describe a collection of items which cannot all be requested together. Please use the hierarchy viewer to navigate to individual items. Some items may be in use or restricted for other reasons. If you would like to check the availability, contact our Reference Services team, quoting the Reference (shelfmark) above.

User Conditions:

Letter of introduction required to view this manuscript.

Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment.

Foliation: ff 163.

Dimensions: 90 x 65 mm.

Ruling: 55 x 55 mm, 21 lines per page (Leroy 32D1).

Binding: 18th century, of wooden boards covered with dark red gilt-tooled leather. In the centre of each side is an oval gilt-stamped panel of floral design like that in Add MS 40754. There are remains of metal clasps. An image of the fore-edge can be seen on Digitised Manuscripts as f ii recto.

Decoration: Twelve full-page miniatures, mostly much rubbed: (1) David playing the lyre, f 1v; (2) David doing penance before Nathan, f 49v; (3) Moses teaching the Israelites the Law, f 75v; (4) David killing Goliath and cutting off his head, f 145v; (5) Miriam dancing between two maidens, f. 146v; (6) Moses, f 148v; (7) Hannah, the mother of Samuel, praying, f 152v; (8) The Three Children in the furnace sheltered by an angel, f 153v; (9) The Prophet Habakkuk, f 155v; (10) Isaiah praying, f 157v; (11) Jonah cast forth by the whale, f 159v; (12) The Theotokos praying, f 163v. The residue of a miniature can be seen on the stub attached to f 158.

Decorative headpieces on ff 2r, and 76r, and a tailpiece on f 144v.

Custodial History:

Origin: Eastern Mediterranean: Likely Palestine or Cyprus, given the script (Canart (1981)) and illumination (Carr (1987)). Probably created in the second half of the 12th century: Carr (1987), Lowden (1988). A member of the '2400 family' of illuminated Byzantine manuscripts.

Provenance:

Three independent inscriptions in 13th-century hands on f 1r:

i) ἄννης κομνήνης

ii) ἐγενίθοι ὁ δουλος του Χριστου ονης ο τοῦ αυτου αδελ(φος) μηνι δεκεμβρίω εν τη υμερα τριτοι ορα ἔτους ςψκβ΄. (i.e. 1213).

iii) ο Δαβιδ.

Source of Acquisition:

Purchased of Mr H. Bagge, 9 June 1923.

Administrative Context:

Eastern Mediterranean: Likely Palestine or Cyprus, given the script (Canart (1981)) and illumination (Carr (1987)). Probably created in the second half of the 12th century: Carr (1987), Lowden (1988). A member of the '2400 family' of illuminated Byzantine manuscripts.

Information About Copies:

Complete digital coverage available for this manuscript; see Digitised Manuscripts [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_40753].

Publications:

Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum, 1921-1925, London 1950, pp. 167-168.

M. Richard, Inventaire des manuscrits grecs du British Museum I, Fonds Sloane, Additional, Egerton, Cottonian et Stowe, Paris 1952, pp. 82-83.

A. W. Carr and A. Cutler, 'The Psalter Benaki 34.3. An unpublished illuminated manuscript from the family 2400', Revue des études byzantines 34 (1976) pp. 281-324, pp. 287-8, 290, 304n. 40, 307.

A. Cutler, 'The aristocratic psalter: the state of research', in Actes du XVe Congrès international d'études byzantines, Athènes - septembre 1976 =Πρακτικα του ΙΕ' διεθνους συνεδριου Βυζαντινων σπουδων, Αθηναι - Σεπτἐμβριος 1976 (Βιβλιοθήκη της εν Αθήναις Αρχαιολογικής Εταιρείας 92) 4 vols, Athens 1979-1981, vol. 1 (1979), pp. 423-449, p. 446.

P. Canart, 'Les écritures livresque chypriotes du milieu du IXe siècle au milieu du XIIIe et le style palestino-cypriote "epsilon"', Scrittura e civiltà 5 (1981) pp. 17-76, pp. 59, 63, 72, 74.

A. W. Carr, 'A Group of Provincial Manuscripts from the Twelfth Century', Dumbarton Oaks Papers 36 (1982) pp. 39-81, pp. 40 n. 16, 47, 62.

A. Cutler, The aristocratic psalters in Byzantium (Bibliothèque des cahiers archéologiques 13), Paris 1984, pp. 49-51, 181-182, figs. 179-190.

A. W. Carr, Byzantine illumination, 1150-1250: the study of a provincial tradition, Chicago 1987, p. 250, no 69, fiches 10G1-10G12, 10B5.

J. Lowden, 'Observations on illustrated Byzantine Psalters', Art Bulletin 70 (1988) pp. 242–260, pp. 259-260.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Bagge, H., former owner of 'The Divine Liturgies' purchased by the British Museum, fl 1923