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Arundel MS 539
- Record Id:
- 040-001614584
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002039280
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001515.0x000114
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100192094676.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Arundel MS 539
- Title:
- Eusebius of Caesarea, Historia Ecclesiastica
- Scope & Content:
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Eusebius of Caesarea, Historia Ecclesiastica (TLG 2018.002; PG 20.45; CPG 3495), ff 2r-344r. Imperfect, having several lacunae and expl. πᾶσαν ὑπερβολὴν ὠμότητος (900B). Preceded by a πίναξ, f 1v
Also included in the volume (f i recto) is a letter from Edward Burton, Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford, to Davies Gilbert, President of the Royal Society; 1831.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Arundel Manuscripts
Greek Manuscripts - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002039280
040-001614584 - Is part of:
- Arundel MS 1-550 : Arundel Manuscripts
Arundel MS 539 : Eusebius of Caesarea, Historia Ecclesiastica - Hierarchy:
- 032-002039280[0540]/040-001614584
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Arundel MS 1-550
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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345 folios
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100192094676.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- English
Greek, Ancient - Scripts:
- Greek
Latin - Start Date:
- 1500
- End Date:
- 1549
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 16th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper.
Foliation: ff i + 345 (+ unfoliated modern paper flyleaves; f 1 is a contemporary paper flyleaf).
Dimensions: 205 x 145 mm.
Ruling: 150 x 95 mm. 22 lines.
Binding: British Museum, 1958.
Decoration: Decorated headpieces in red and black ink (ff 2r, 164r). Small simple black initials highlighted in red.
Scribe: Γεώργιος ὁ ἁμαρτωλὸς (inscription, f 2r; Repertorium 1A, no. 78).
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Eastern Mediterranean.
Provenance:
The monastery of the Panaghia, the island of Chalce, Princes' Islands (inscription, f 343v).
Thomas Howard (b. 1585, d. 1646), 2nd earl of Arundel, 4th earl of Surrey, and 1st earl of Norfolk, art collector and politician, probably acquired by his agent Petty in 1626, along with Arundel 547 (see Negotiations 1740, p. 500).
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 2r).
Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in 1831.
- Administrative Context:
- Eastern Mediterranean.
- Information About Copies:
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Complete digital coverage available for this manuscript; see Digitised Manuscripts [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Arundel_MS_539].
Select digital coverage available for this manuscript; see the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, [http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=1813&CollID=20&NStart=539].
- Publications:
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The Negotiations of Sir Thomas Roe, in his Embassy to the Ottoman Porte, from the year 1621 to 1628 inclusive, London 1740, p. 500.
Edward Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae, 3 vols, Oxford 1697, III, no. 3445.
Catalogue of Manuscripts in The British Museum, New Series, Vol. I Part I, The Arundel Manuscripts, London 1840, p. 164.
E. Gamillscheg and D. Harlfinger, Repertorium der griechischen Kopisten 800-1600, 1: Grossbritannien (Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Byzantinistik 3.1), Vienna 1981, no. 78.
The British Library Summary Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts, I, London 1999, p. 20.
M. Cassin, 'Tradition Manuscrite Grecque de l’Histoire Ecclésiastique', in Eusèbe de Césarée, Histoire ecclésiastique. Commentaire. T. I, Études d’introduction, Anagôgê, ed. S. Morlet, Paris 2012, pp. 209–42 (p. 233).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)