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Arundel MS 527

Record Id:

040-001614427

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002039280

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001515.0x0000e8

LARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100192117404.0x000001

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Arundel MS 527

Title:

John Koukouzeles and others, Anagrammatismoi for the principal feasts, and hymns, tropes, and other theological miscellanea

Scope & Content:

John Koukouzeles and others, Anagrammatismoi for the principal feasts, and hymns, tropes, and other theological miscellanea. Musical notation (with neumes).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Arundel Manuscripts
Greek Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002039280
040-001614427

Is part of:

Arundel MS 1-550 : Arundel Manuscripts

Arundel MS 527 : John Koukouzeles and others, Anagrammatismoi for the principal feasts, and hymns, tropes, and other theological miscellanea

Contains:

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Hierarchy:

032-002039280[0528]/040-001614427

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Arundel MS 1-550

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

138 folios

Digitised Content:

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Languages:

Bulgarian
Greek, Ancient
Serbian

Scripts:

Cyrillic
Greek

Start Date:

1450

End Date:

1474

Date Range:

3rd quarter of the 15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Paper.

Foliation: ff 138. Preceded by 2 and followed by 2 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves + 1 original unfoliated leaf after f 131.

Dimensions: 140 x 100 mm (ff 1-10), 145 x 100 mm (ff 11-138).

Ruling: 100-110 x 65 mm (ff 1-10), 100 x 65 mm (ff 11-131), 90 x 65 mm (ff 132-135r), 110 x 65 mm (ff 135v-138). 17-20 lines per page (ff 1-10), 11 lines per page (ff 11-127), 14 lines per page (ff 132-138).

Binding: Early 20th century, British Museum. Edges of leaves speckled blue.

Decoration: Foliate pink headpiece (f 11r). Small red or pink initials, some with penwork decoration.

Custodial History:

Origin: Eastern Mediterranean (Serbia?).

Provenance:

? Dr. (Hans) Johannes Pirckheimer (b. 1440, d. 1501) of Nuremberg, humanist, jurist, and diplomat; or his son, Willibald Pirckheimer (b. 1470, d. 1530), humanist, councillor of Nuremberg, and diplomat.

? Johann Gremper, Viennese humanist, while forming one volume with Arundel 528.

? Possibly purchased with the Pirckheimer library from Hanns Hieronymus Imhoff by Howard in 1636.

? Thomas Howard (b. 1585, d. 1646), 2nd earl of Arundel, 4th earl of Surrey, and 1st earl of Norfolk, art collector and politician.

Henry Howard (b. 1628, d. 1684), 6th duke of Norfolk, presented to the Royal Society in 1667.

The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond. / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis', f 11r).

Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in 1831.

Administrative Context:

Eastern Mediterranean (Serbia?).

Information About Copies:

Complete digital coverage available for this manuscript; see Digitised Manuscripts [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Arundel_MS_527].

Select digital coverage available for this manuscript; see the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, [http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=1787&CollID=20&NStart=527].

Publications:

Horologion, Rome 1677.

E. Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae, 3 vols, Oxford 1697, III, no. 3434 (with Arundel 528).

Catalogue of Manuscripts in The British Museum, New Series, 1 vol. in 2 parts, London 1834-1840, I, part I: The Arundel Manuscripts, pp. 155-56.

W. von Christ and M. K. Paranikas, Anthologia graeca carminum Christianorum, Leipzig 1871, p. 112.

J. B. Pitra, Analecta Sacra Spicilegio Solesmensi parata, Paris 1876-1891, I, 124.

H. J. W. Tillyard, 'Greek Church Music', Musical Antiquary 2 (1910-1911), pp. 80-98, 154-70 (p. 81).

S. Eustratiades, 'Ἰωάννης ὁ Κουκουζέλης, ὁ μαϊστωρ, καὶ ὁ χρόνος τῆς ἀκμῆς αὐτοῦ', Ἐπετηρὶς Ἑταιρείας Βυζαντινῶν Σπουδῶν 14 (1938) pp. 31, 39.

R. Cleminson, A Union Catalogue of Cyrillic Manuscripts in British and Irish collections, ed. by Veronica Du Feu and W. F. Ryan, London 1988, no. 94.

The British Library Summary Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts, I, London 1999, pp. 9-10.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Gremper, Johann, of Vienna, humanist and former owner of a manuscript by John Koukouzeles and others, fl after Mid 15th century
Imhoff, Hanns Hieronymus, of Nuremberg, 17th century
Koukouzeles, John, Saint, composer and monk, d before 1341
Pirckheimer, Hans Johannes, Dr, of Nuremberg, humanist, jurist, and diplomat, 1440-1501
Pirckheimer, Willibald, German humanist and writer, 1470-1530