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Harley MS 5620

Record Id:

040-001613359

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-001613359

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001481.0x000321

LARK:

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Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 5620

Title:

New Testament: Acts and Epistles (Gregory-Aland 322; Scrivener act. 27; von Soden α 550)

Scope & Content:

New Testament: Acts and Epistles (Gregory-Aland 322; Scrivener act. 27; von Soden α 550).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Greek Manuscripts
Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-001613359

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 5620 : New Testament: Acts and Epistles (Gregory-Aland 322; Scrivener act. 27; von Soden α 550)

Contains:

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Hierarchy:

032-002045828[5623]/040-001613359

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Harley MS 1-7661

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

134 folios

Digitised Content:

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Languages:

Greek, Ancient

Scripts:

Greek

Start Date:

1500

End Date:

1599

Date Range:

16th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Paper (watermark Hand BA surmounted by bird).

Foliation: ff 134 (+ 3 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and the end).

Dimensions: 211 x 150 mm.

Ruling: 170 x 105 mm, 22 lines per page.

Collation: Gatherings of 8. Traces of quire numeration, αʹ βʹ γʹ δʹ ζʹ θʹ κʹ.

Binding: British Museum, 19th century.

Decoration: Headpieces with geometric decoration in colours (ff 2r, 41r, 58r, 72v, 98v, 123v). Line-fillers with geometric or foliate decoration in colours. Titles in display capitals in red. Decorated initials in red and grey.

Custodial History:

Origin: Eastern Mediterranean.

Provenance:

Drakos Jerakis: owned in 1654, his inscription (f 1r).

Dimitraskos Jerakis: owned in 1663, his inscriptions in Greek and Italian (f 134r).

John Covel (b. 1638, d. 1722), chaplain of the Levant Company in Constantinople, 1670-1676, and later Master of Christ's College, Cambridge: his Greek manuscript XXXI; his inscription 'This I had at Adrianople' (f 1r) and 'Luceo Constantinople 1675' (f 2r); his notes (passim); sold, together with Covel's other manuscripts, to Edward Harley for £300 on 27 Feb. 1715/6: Diary (1966); Wright (1972).

The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (b. 1661, d. 1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and Edward Harley (b. 1689, d. 1741), 2nd earl of Oxford and Mortimer, book collector and patron of the arts, inscribed by their librarian, Humfrey Wanley, ‘Codex Adrianopolitanus' (f 1r; see Wright (1972).

Edward Harley bequeathed the library to his widow, Henrietta Cavendish, née Holles (b. 1694, d. 1755) during her lifetime and thereafter to their daughter, Margaret Cavendish Bentinck (b. 1715, d. 1785), duchess of Portland; the manuscripts were sold by the Countess and the Duchess in 1753 to the nation for £10,000 (a fraction of their contemporary value) under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library.

Administrative Context:

Eastern Mediterranean.

Information About Copies:

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Publications:

Novum Testamentum, ed. J. Mill, London 1707, Prolegomena p. 164.

Novum Testamentum, ed. J. Mill (rev. W. Kuster), Rotterdam 1710, § 1487 (Cov. 4; cf. (f 1r) 'Covel 4').

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols, London 1808-1812, vol. 3, p. 281.

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. 286.

C. R. Gregory, Textkritik des neuen Testamentes, 3 vols, Leipzig 1900-1909, vol. 1, p. 265, vol. 3, p. 1102.

H. von Soden, Die Schriften des neuen Testaments, in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Textgestalt hergestellt auf Grund ihrer Textgeschichte, 4 vols, Berlin 1902-1910, vol. 1, p. 237.

The Diary of Humfrey Wanley 1715-1726, ed. by C. E. Wright and R. C. Wright, 2 vols, London 1966, vol. 1: 1715-1723, pp. xxxiv-xxxvi; vol. 2: 1723-1726, p. 211 n. 1.

W. J. Elliott, 'The Relationship between Mss. 322 and 323 of the Greek New Testament', The Journal of Theological Studies, n.s. 18 (1967) pp. 423-25.

C. E. Wright, Fontes Harleiani: A Study of the Sources of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts preserved in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum, London 1972, pp. 113-17, 460.

K. Aland, Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des neuen Testaments (Arbeiten zur neutestamentlichen Textforschung 1), Berlin 1994, p. 66.

The British Library Summary Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts, I, London 1999, p. 134.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Covel, John, traveller, botanist and college head, 1638-1722
Jerakis, Dimitraskos, of Pera, fl 1663
Jerakis, Drakos, 17th century