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Arundel MS 547
- Record Id:
- 040-001614632
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002039280
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001515.0x00014c
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100192099357.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Arundel MS 547
- Title:
- Gospel Lectionary (Gregory-Aland l 183; Scrivener evst. 257), imperfect
- Scope & Content:
- Gospel Lectionary (Gregory-Aland l 183; Scrivener evst. 257), imperfect, expl. ὑμεῖς ἐκ τῶν κάτω ἐστέ, ἐγὼ ἐκ τῶν (John 8:23). Pericopes arranged according to the ecclesiastical calendar beginning at Easter.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Arundel Manuscripts
Greek Manuscripts - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002039280
040-001614632 - Is part of:
- Arundel MS 1-550 : Arundel Manuscripts
Arundel MS 547 : Gospel Lectionary (Gregory-Aland l 183; Scrivener evst. 257), imperfect - Hierarchy:
- 032-002039280[0548]/040-001614632
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Arundel MS 1-550
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
329 folios
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100192099357.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0975
- End Date:
- 0999
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 10th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Foliation: ff 329. Five unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and five at the end.
Dimensions: 295 x 225 mm.
Ruling: 245 x 165 mm, Leroy K 44C2, 22 lines per page.
Binding: Blue leather, British Museum, 1963.
Decoration: Full-page illuminated evangelist portraits, ff 1v, 63v, 94v, 131v, the first being a replacement of the mid 14th century. 5 large foliate patterned headpieces in colours and gold (ff 1r, 64r, 95r, 132r, 238r). 16 smaller foliate or patterned headpieces in colours and gold (ff 65r, 149r, 164v, 166v, 191r, 255r, 263v, 282r, 291v, 298r, 310v, 303v, 308r, 313v, 317r, 324r). Large initials in colours, many zoomorphic (including birds or fish), or including human figures or body parts, harpies, or vases. Large brown initials. Ekphonetic notation in red ink.
Binding: Black leather, British Museum, 1963.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Eastern Mediterranean (Cappadocia?) or Italy, S.
Provenance:
? The monastery of the Panaghia on the island of Chalce, Princes' Islands, in 1626: the MS may have been acquired along with Arundel MS 539, which contains an ownership inscription from this monastery,
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 agents Petty or Roe in 1626, along with Arundel 539 (see Negotiations 1740, p. 500).
Henry Howard (b. 1628, d. 1684), 6th duke of Norfolk, presented to the Royal Society in 1667: Bernard (1697) III, no. 3453.
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 (Cappadocia?) or Italy, S.
- 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_547].
Select digital coverage available for this manuscript; see the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, [http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=8077&CollID=20&NStart=547].
Reproductions of individual folios can be found in the following publications:
F. H. A. Scrivener, A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament for the Use of Biblical Students, 2 vols, 4th edn London 1894, pl.vi No.16.
K. Weitzmann, Die byzantische Buchmalerei des 9 und 10 Jahrhunderts (Archäologisches Institut des deutschen Reiches, Abteilung Istanbul), Berlin 1935, pls 473-477.
W. H. P. Hatch, The Principal Uncial Manuscripts of the New Testament, Chicago 1939, pl.lxxiv.
A. Grabar, Les manuscrits grecs enluminés de provenance italienne (IX, l. e -XI, l. e siècles), Paris 1972, pp.53-54 No.32, figs 214-219.
G. Cavallo, 'Funzione e strutture della maiuscola greca tra i secoli VIII-XI', in La Paléographie grecque (Colloques interationaux du Centre national de la Recherche Scientifique 559), Paris 1977, pp.105, 106 n.68, 127 pl.30.
Byzantium. Treasures of Byzantine Art and Culture, British Museum exhibition catalogue, ed. D. Buckton, London 1994, pp. 140-141, p. 150.
- Publications:
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E. Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae, Oxford 1697, III, no. 3453.
The Negotiations of Sir Thomas Roe, in his Embassy to the Ottoman Porte, from the year 1621 to 1628 inclusive, London 1740, p. 500.
Catalogue of Manuscripts in the British Museum, New Series Vol. I Part I, The Arundel Manuscripts, London 1840, p.166;
F. H. A. Scrivener, A Full and Exact Collation of about Twenty Greek Manuscripts of the Holy Gospels (Hitherto Unexamined), Cambridge 1853, cod. X.
F. H. A. Scrivener, Contributions to the criticism of the Greek New Testament, being the introduction to an edition of the Codex Augiensis and fifty other manuscripts, Cambridge 1859, pp. 49-51.
F. H. A. Scrivener, A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament for the Use of Biblical Students, 2 vols, 4th edn London 1894, vol. 1, p. 344, pl.vi No.16.
E. M. Thompson and G. F. Warner, Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts in the British Museum, Part I, Greek Manuscripts, London 1881, vol. 1, p.23.
C. R. Gregory, Textkritik des neuen Testamentes, 3 vols, Leipzig 1900-1909, vol. 1, p. 402.
K. Weitzmann, Die byzantische Buchmalerei des 9 und 10 Jahrhunderts (Archäologisches Institut des deutschen Reiches, Abteilung Istanbul), Berlin 1935, pp.70-71, pls 473-477.
W. H. P. Hatch, The Principal Uncial Manuscripts of the New Testament, Chicago 1939, pl.lxxiv.
A. Grabar, Les manuscrits grecs enluminés de provenance italienne (IX, l. e -XI, l. e siècles), Paris 1972, pp.53-54 No.32, figs 214-219.
G. Cavallo, 'Funzione e strutture della maiuscola greca tra i secoli VIII-XI', in La Paléographie grecque (Colloques interationaux du Centre national de la Recherche Scientifique 559), Paris 1977, pp.105, 106 n.68, 127 pl.30.
K. Aland, Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des neuen Testaments (Arbeiten zur neutestamentlichen Textforschung 1), Berlin 1994, p. 229.
Byzantium. Treasures of Byzantine Art and Culture, British Museum exhibition catalogue, ed. D. Buckton, London 1994, pp. 140-141, p. 150.
The British Library Summary Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts, I, London 1999, p. 24.
- Exhibitions:
- Greek Manuscripts, (online), 18 September 2016-
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)