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Add MS 37485
- Record Id:
- 040-002053851
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002053850
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000984.0x000010
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 37485
- Title:
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Four Gospels (Gregory-Aland 2291), volume 1, containing Matthew and Mark
- Scope & Content:
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Four Gospels (Gregory-Aland 2291), volume 1, containing Matthew and Mark.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
Greek Manuscripts - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002053850
040-002053851 - Is part of:
- Add MS 37485-37486 : Four Gospels (Gregory-Aland 2291), in two volumes
Add MS 37485 : Four Gospels (Gregory-Aland 2291), volume 1, containing Matthew and Mark - Contains:
- Add MS 37485, ff 1r-93v : Gospel of Matthew, ff 5r-93v, preceded by pen-trials, f 1r and f 4r, capitula, ff 2r-3v, and a pen drawing of St Matthew…
Add MS 37485, ff 94r-155v : Gospel of Mark, ff 95v-152r, preceded by capitula, ff 94r-v, and a pen drawing of St Mark the Evangelist, f 4v,…
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- 032-002053850[0001]/040-002053851
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 37485-37486
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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155 folios
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_37485 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 1200
- End Date:
- 1240
- Date Range:
- Early 13th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Foliation: ff iv + 155, and three unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and three at the end.
Dimensions: 115 x 75 mm.
Ruling: 75 x 50 mm, 21 lines per page.
Scribe: Xenophon (Repertorium 1A, no. 334).
Binding: Contemporary red leather binding, British Museum.
Decoration: Pen-drawings of the Evangelists and headpieces.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Eastern Mediterranean.
Provenance:
Presented by Henry Redhead to Clement Chevallier (rector of Badingham, Suffolk), on 24 June 1791: dedicatory inscriptions, Add MS 37485, f ii recto, and Add MS 37486, f i recto.
Owned by Anna Farr Roberts in 1847: ownership inscriptions, Add MS 37485, f i recto, and Add MS 37486, f i recto.
- Source of Acquisition:
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Purchased from Sotheby's, 15 March 1907, lot 353.
- 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=Add_MS_37485].
- Publications:
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C. R. Gregory, Textkritik des Neuen Testamentes, 3 vols, Leipzig 1900-1909, vol. 3, p. 1206.
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum, 1906-1910, London 1912, p. 51.
M. Richard, Inventaire des manuscrits grecs du British Museum I, Fonds Sloane, Additional, Egerton, Cottonian et Stowe, Paris 1952, p. 70.
E. Gamillscheg and D. Harlfinger, Repertorium der griechischen Kopisten 800-1600, 1: Grossbritannien (Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Byzantinistik 3.1), 3 vols, Vienna 1981.
K. Aland, Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des neuen Testaments (Arbeiten zur neutestamentlichen Textforschung 1), Berlin 1994, p. 179.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)