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Add MS 11859

Record Id:
040-001779990
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-002041530
MDARK:
ark:/81055/vdc_100000000195.0x0000ff
LARK:
SLARK:
Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 11859
Title:
Palimpsest, containing a Euchologion (Ritual), written over a New Testament (11th century; Gregory-Aland 1274)
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Additional Manuscripts
Greek Manuscripts
Hierarchy Record Ids:
032-002041530
036-002041562
040-001779990
Is part of:
Add MS 11828-12117 : Collection belonging to the late Right Rev. Samuel Butler, D.D., Lord Bishop of Lichfield.
Add MS 11859-11860 : RITUALE Graecorum, scil., Oratio pro muliere puerpera post quadraginta dies; Officium ad faciendum catechumenum, cui…

 

Add MS 11859 : Palimpsest, containing a Euchologion (Ritual), written over a New Testament (11th century; Gregory-Aland 1274)
Contains:
Add MS 11859, ff 1r-v : Prayer for a woman forty days after giving birth (cf. Goar 267-268). The same prayer is also found on ff 16v-17.
Add MS 11859, ff 3r-v : Baptismal preparations. At the head of f 3 a later hand wrote with pencil Ordo ad faciendum Catechumenum (Goar 275 ff.).
Add MS 11859, ff 4-16v : Baptismal exorcisms.
Add MS 11859, ff 16v-17 : Prayer for a woman forty days after giving birth (cf. Goar 267-268). The same prayer is also found on ff 1r-v.
Add MS 11859, ff 17-19 : Service for the preparation of a wedding, Ordo in sponsalibus (Goar 310 ff.).
Add MS 11859, ff 19-29 : Service for the blessing of a wedding, attributed to Methodios, Patriarch of Constantinople (cf. Goar 314-320).
Add MS 11859, f 19v : Καὶ εἰσερχομένων ἐν τῷ ναῷ ψάλλομεν τοῦτο (τὸ) τροπάριον ἦχος…
Add MS 11859, f 22 : Καὶ εὐθέως Ἀλληλούϊα ἦχος πλ.δ΄ Ἡ γυνή σου ὡς ἄμπελος εὐθηνοῦσα…
Add MS 11859, ff 24-29 : Prayers: Εὐχὴ λεγομένη εἰς τὸν θάλαμον ὅταν αἴρῃ τὰ στεφάνια ὁ…
Add MS 11859, ff 1-29 : Matthew, incomplete, 12:33-13:7; 16:21-17:15; 20:1-21:5; Gospel of Mark, incomplete, 10:45-11:17, written beneath…

 

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Hierarchy:
032-002041530[0032]/036-002041562[0001]/040-001779990
Container:
View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 11828-12117
Record Type (Level):
File
Extent:
10 items
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Languages:
Greek, Ancient
Scripts:
Greek
Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1499
Date Range:
15th century
Era:
CE
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User Conditions:
Physical Characteristics:
  • Material: Parchment.
  • Foliation: ff 29.
  • Dimensions: 248 x 195 mm.
  • Ruling: 168 x 122 mm; 20 lines per page. Underwriting: written in 2 columns, 27-28 lines per column.
  • Binding: Full calf leather binding.
  • Scribes: The scribes are the same as in Add MS 11860.
Custodial History:
Belonged to the Right Rev. Samuel Butler, D.D., bishop of Lichfield (d. 1839).
Source of Acquisition:
Purchased from the library of Samuel Butler, 5 July 1841.
Publications:
  • Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum, 1841-1845 (London, 1850), 1841, p. 12.
  • M. Richard, Inventaire des manuscrits grecs du British Museum I, Fonds Sloane, Additional, Egerton, Cottonian et Stowe (Paris, 1952), p. 19.
  • A. Cataldi Palau, "Manoscritti greci originari dell’Italia meridionale nel fondo 'Additional' della 'British Library' a Londra", Bollettino della Badia greca di Grottaferrata, new series 46 (1992 [1994]), (pp. 199-261) pp. 221-226, fig. 5-7.
  • K. Aland, Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testaments (Berlin and New York, 2nd edn., 1994), p. 120 (GA 1274).
Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)