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Arundel MS 543
- Record Id:
- 040-001614623
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002039280
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001515.0x000128
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100192097423.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Arundel MS 543
- Title:
- St John Chrysostom, In Matthaeum homiliae
- Scope & Content:
- St John Chrysostom, In Matthaeum homiliae (TLG 2062.152; PG 57.15; CPG 4424). Imperfect with several lacunae and inc. [ἐπιμε]λοῦμαι. Τοῦτο γὰρ ἐστιν (59.3042).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Arundel Manuscripts
Greek Manuscripts - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002039280
040-001614623 - Is part of:
- Arundel MS 1-550 : Arundel Manuscripts
Arundel MS 543 : St John Chrysostom, In Matthaeum homiliae - Hierarchy:
- 032-002039280[0544]/040-001614623
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Arundel MS 1-550
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
336 folios
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100192097423.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 1000
- End Date:
- 1099
- Date Range:
- 11th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Letter of introduction required to view this manuscript
- Physical Characteristics:
-
Material: Parchment.
Foliation: ff i + 336 (+ unfoliated modern paper flyleaves). ff 1, 8, 137-38, 180-187 are replacements in a 13th- (?) century hand.
Dimensions: 355 x 255 mm.
Ruling: 230-260 x 165 mm. Leroy K 24C2, 32 lines.
Binding: British Museum, 1962.
Decoration: 3 pink foliate headpieces and large decorated pink initials (ff 138v, 180v, and 187v) added in the 13th century as replacement folios. Original simple brown headpieces, and small simple pink or brown initials.
- Custodial History:
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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 9r; its bookplate, inside upper cover).
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_543].
Select digital coverage available for this manuscript; see the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, [http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=7354&CollID=20&NStart=543].
- Publications:
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Edward Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae, 3 vols, Oxford 1697, III, no. 3448 or 3450.
J.-P. Migne, Patrologiae Cursus Completus, Series Graeca, 161 vols, Paris 1857-1866, LVII, p. vi (cod. F).
Catalogue of Manuscripts in the British Museum, New Series Vol. I Part I, The Arundel Manuscripts, London 1840, p. 166.
K. Treu, 'Fragments of Greek Patristic Manuscripts in Erevan, Kiev, and Odessa', in Studia Patristica Vol. III: Papers Presented to the Third International Conference on Patristic Studies held at Christ Church, Oxford, 1959, Part I (Texte und Untersuchungen 78), ed. F. L. Cross, Berlin 1961,pp. 146-54 (pp. 147-48).
M. Aubineau, Codices Chrysostomici Graeci, I: Codices Britanniae et Hiberniae, Paris 1968, no. 46.
The British Library Summary Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts, I, London 1999, p. 22.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)