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Harley MS 5731

Record Id:

040-001613854

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

040-001613854

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001481.0x000383

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Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Harley MS 5731

Title:

Four Gospels and Apostolos

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Greek Manuscripts
Harley Collection

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002045828
040-001613854

Is part of:

Harley MS 1-7661 : Harley Manuscripts

Harley MS 5731 : Four Gospels and Apostolos

Contains:

Harley MS 5731, ff 2-6v : Eusebius of Caesarea, Letter to Carpianus, with canon tables. Imperfect, inc. εἰρήκασιν. ἐπιστήσας…
Harley MS 5731, ff 7-169v : Four Gospels, each preceded by a table of capitula. Greg.-Aland 117; Scrivener, l. 4 evan. 117; von Soden ε 506.
Harley MS 5731, ff 170-182 : Table of lessons from the Gospels for the ecclesiastical year.
Harley MS 5731, ff 183-202v : Extracts from Acts and Epistles (Apostolos) arranged according to the ecclesiastical year. Imperfect at end.…

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Hierarchy:

032-002045828[5734]/040-001613854

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

4 items

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Languages:

Greek, Ancient

Scripts:

Greek

Start Date:

1500

End Date:

1549

Date Range:

1st half of the 16th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Paper. ff. 202. 205 x 145 (150 x 90) mm. Ruling Leroy D 32D1b, 28 lines. Headpieces in colour (ff. 58, 89, 136). Evangelist portraits in colour (ff. 1v, 57v, 88v, 135v). Decorated canon tables. Pen drawing of Virgin and Child (f. 1). Early 18th century binding of gold tooled blue-green morocco (rebacked 1950), with Harley armorial stamp on pasted down leaf inside upper cover.

Custodial History:

Owned by Richard Bentley, D.D. (his signature and pressmark XXXVI.36 on fly-leaf; Fontes p.70).

Publications:

A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols, London 1808-1812, p.291;
W. H. P. Hatch, Facsimiles and Descriptions of Minuscule Manuscripts of the New Testament, Cambridge (Mass.) 1951 pl.xcii.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)