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Add MS 40754
- Record Id:
- 032-002254872
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002254872
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000063.0x0001fa
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 40754
- Title:
- Gospel Lectionary (Gregory-Aland l 1743)
- Scope & Content:
- Gospel Lectionary (Gregory-Aland l 1743).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
Greek Manuscripts - Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002254872
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Contains:
- Add MS 40754, ff 1r-31r : Daily Gospel lections from Easter Sunday to Monday after Pentecost.
Add MS 40754, ff 31r-46v : Gospel lections from Saturday after Pentecost to the Greek New Year, for Saturdays and Sundays only, the Sunday…
Add MS 40754, ff 47r-62v : Gospel lections from New Year to Cheesefare Sunday.
Add MS 40754, ff 62v-87r : Gospels lections for the Vigils of the first week in Lent, ff 62v-63v, followed by lections from 1st Saturday in Lent…
Add MS 40754, ff 87r-109v : Lections for the Passion, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday, and a list of the eleven Gospels read at Matins and on…
Add MS 40754, ff 109v-148r : Gospels for the Menologion. Owing to the loss of leaves after f 143v, the feasts between 29 June and 21 July are missing.
Add MS 40754, ff 148r-151v : Eothina, ff 148r-151r, followed by pen-trials, f 151v.
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- 032-002254872
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 40754
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 151 folios
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_40754 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 1256
- End Date:
- 1256
- Date Range:
- 1256
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment and paper.
Foliation: ff ii + 151. ff 119-121, 126-134, 136-140, and 144-148 are paper leaves added later to replace lost parchment leaves. Two unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and three at the end.
Dimensions: 255 x 205 mm.
Ruling: 195 x 70 mm, written in two columns, 26 lines per column.
Binding: Half black, British Museum, 20th century. Old 18th-century binding, of dark brown leather with a gilt-stamped floral design in the centre, is kept separately under Add MS 40754/1.
Decoration: Illuminated headpieces and initials in colours throughout.
Scribe: Γεώργιος (Σουδαρία), Repertorium 1A, no. 76 (ff 1r-118v, 122r-125v, 135r-v, 141r-143v, 149r-151v): colophon, f 151r.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Eastern Mediterranean. Written in 1256: colophon (f 151r). According to Lucà 2001, p. 135 n. 25, the hand is not Italian.
Provenance:
Two 17th-century memorials: f 121r, +Μιστι κθριε την ψυχι του δολου σου Νηκολαου και τη σιβιο αυτου καὶ..ραι..και του πρ..(?); f 136r, +Μνηστη κυριε τ[ην] ψυχη του δ[ου]λου σου Γε[ωρ]γιου καὶ [τη]σιβιου α[υ]το και το ι[ου] (?) αυτου Μ.[..]κας.
Diamantake from the Convent of the Nine Orders near Constantinople, owned in the 18th(?) century: ownership inscription (f i recto).
Acquired by Charalambos Tsimaratos Gennatas from Dionysius Pharantatus, from the deme Thenia, in 1853: ownership inscription (f ii recto).
- Source of Acquisition:
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Purchased from Mr H. Bagge, 9 June 1923.
- Administrative Context:
- Eastern Mediterranean. Written in 1256: colophon (f 151r). According to Lucà 2001, p. 135 n. 25, the hand is not Italian.
- Information About Copies:
- 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, 1921-1925, London 1950, pp. 168-169.
M. Richard, Inventaire des manuscrits grecs du British Museum I, Fonds Sloane, Additional, Egerton, Cottonian et Stowe, Paris 1952, p. 83.
A. Turyn, Dated Greek Manuscripts of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries in the Libraries of Great Britain, Dumbarton Oaks 1980, pp. 17-19.
E. Gamillscheg and D. Harlfinger, Repertorium der griechischen Kopisten 800-1600, 1: Grossbritannien (Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Byzantinistik 3.1), 3 vols, Vienna 1981.
K. Aland, Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des neuen Testaments (Arbeiten zur neutestamentlichen Textforschung 1), Berlin 1994, p. 324.
S. Lucà, 'Teodoro sacerdote, copista del Reg. Gr. PII II 35: appunti su scribi e committenti di manoscritti greci.' Bollettino Della Badia Greca Di Grottaferrata 55 (2001) pp. 127–163 (p. 135, n. 25).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)