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Arundel MS 542

Record Id:

040-001614605

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002039280

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001515.0x000127

LARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100192095833.0x000001

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Arundel MS 542

Title:

Works of St John Chrysostom (some now attributed to Severianus Gabalensis)

Scope & Content:

Works of St John Chrysostom (some now attributed to Severianus Gabalensis). All of the works now attributed to Severianus are explicitly ascribed to John Chrysostom in the manuscript, with the exception of In pretiosam et vivificam crucem (ff 47r-55v), which is imperfect at the beginning.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Arundel Manuscripts
Greek Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002039280
040-001614605

Is part of:

Arundel MS 1-550 : Arundel Manuscripts

Arundel MS 542 : Works of St John Chrysostom (some now attributed to Severianus Gabalensis)

Contains:

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Hierarchy:

032-002039280[0543]/040-001614605

Container:

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

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

237 folios

Digitised Content:

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Languages:

Greek, Ancient

Scripts:

Greek

Start Date:

0900

End Date:

0999

Date Range:

10th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment.

Foliation: ff 237 (+ unfoliated modern paper flyleaves).

Dimensions: 405 x 265 mm.

Ruling: 305 x 165 mm. Leroy D 02D2a, 36 lines.

Binding: British Library, 1981. Misbinding of ff 1-20 noted in a (13th cent.?) Greek hand in the lower margin. ff 38-39 bound upside down. An older Arundel binding is kept separately as Arundel MS 542/1.

Decoration: Large foliate, geometric, or decorated headpieces in colours and gold with enclosed titles in red majuscules, and large coloured initials below at the beginning of texts (ff 1r, 16r, 29r, 37v, 55v, 72v, 81r, 94r, 103r, 111v, 117r, 124r, 135v, 143v, 148r, 153v, 169r, 181v, 191v, 200v, 212r, 223r, 237v). Simple headpiece with titles in red uncials, and large decorated initials in colour. Simple endpieces. Small initials in brown. Marginal drawing of a cross (f 223r).

Custodial History:

Origin: Eastern Mediterranean.

Provenance:

? 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 1r).

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

Administrative Context:

Eastern Mediterranean.

Information About Copies:

Complete digital coverage available for this manuscript; see Digitised Manuscripts [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Arundel_MS_542].

Select digital coverage available for this manuscript; see the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, [http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=1866&CollID=20&NStart=542].

Publications:

Catalogue of Manuscripts in the British Museum, New Series Vol. I Part I, The Arundel Manuscripts, London 1840, p. 165.

M. Aubineau, Codices Chrysostomici Graeci, I: Codices Britanniae et Hiberniae, Paris 1968, no.45.

M. L. Agati, La minuscola "bouletée" (Littera Antiqua 9), Vatican City 1992, p. 293.

The British Library Summary Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts, I, London 1999, pp. 21-22.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Related Archive Descriptions:

Arundel MS 542/1