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Add MS 37002
- Record Id:
- 040-002055522
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002055520
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001047.0x000220
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
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- Add MS 37002
- Title:
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Four Gospels (Greg.-Aland 2278 e)
- Scope & Content:
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Four Gospels (Greg.-Aland 2278 e).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
Greek Manuscripts - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002055520
040-002055522 - Is part of:
- Add MS 37001-37012 : Dawes Manuscripts
Add MS 37002 : Four Gospels (Greg.-Aland 2278 e) - Contains:
- Add MS 37002, ff i recto-6v : Various ownership notes, ff i recto-ii recto. Eusebius of Caesarea, Epistula ad Carpianum ad canones…
Add MS 37002, ff 7v-74r : Gospel of Matthew, ff 8r-74r, preceded by a portrait of St Matthew, f 7v.
Add MS 37002, ff 75v-120r : Gospel of Mark, ff 76r-118v, preceded by a portrait of St Mark, f 75v.
Add MS 37002, ff 121v-193r : Gospel of Luke, ff 122r-191v, preceded by a portrait of St Luke, f 121v, and followed by folios with the name of…
Add MS 37002, ff 193v-245v : Gospel of John, ff 194r-245v, preceded by a portrait of St John the Evangelist, f 193v.
Add MS 37002, ff 246r-253r : Synaxarion, ff 246r-250r, followed by a prayer, f 251r, and κανών τῆς μεγάλης κυριακῆς…
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- 032-002055520[0002]/040-002055522
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- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 37001-37012
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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352 folios
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 1314
- End Date:
- 1315
- Date Range:
- 1314-1315
- Era:
- CE
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Foliation: ff (ii) + 253 + (i) + 254. ff i and 254 are pastedowns on the inside front and back cover respectively.
Dimensions: 210 x 180 mm.
Ruling: 135 x 95 mm, 24 lines per page. Leroy 44C1.
Script: Minuscule in rounded epsilon style: Canart (1981).
Binding: Wooden boards, covered with stamped leather: possibly 14th century.
Decoration: Decorated canon tables. Much-defaced illuminated portraits of the evangelists (ff 7v, 75v, 121v, 193v) and illuminated headpieces (ff 8r, 76r, 122r, 194r). Part of the "Decorative Style Group" identified by Carr (1987-1988).
- Custodial History:
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Possibly originated in Cyprus: Carr (1987-1988) p. 136, and Canart (1981).
Likely written in 1314-1315: colophon, f 253v, though this is not certain, as Carr (1987) p. 248 points out.
Owned by the Monastery of Pikryousa: note of a Turkish raid in Feb 1426, f 74r.
Inscription on f ii recto, mentioning Abercius of Galata and the Church of Hyperagia Theotokos τῶν Καυαρῶν, possibly dating from 1746: Catalogue of Additions 1900-1905, p. 276. A church of this name existed at Galata on Cyprus: Carr (1987) p. 248.
Signatures of Ioannes, hieromonk of the Καθαρὸς, on ff 153v and 245v.
Once owned by Victor Lombardo: f i recto.
Purchased from J. S. Dawes, chaplain at Corfu, 8 October 1904.
- Publications:
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C. R. Gregory, Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, 3 vols, Leipzig 1900-1909, p. 1205.
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum, 1900-1905, London 1907, p. 276.
M. Richard, Inventaire des manuscrits grecs du British Museum I, Fonds Sloane, Additional, Egerton, Cottonian et Stowe, Paris 1952, p. 68.
Π. Λ. Βοκοτόπουλος, 'Τα επίτιτλα ενός τετραευαγγέλου της «ομάδος της Νικαίας» = The Headpieces of a Gospel Book of the so-called "Nicaea Group"', DeltChAE 9 (1977-1979), pp. 133-141, p. 137.
P. Canart, 'Les écritures livresque chypriotes du milieu du IXe siècle au milieu du XIIIe et le style palestino-cypriote "epsilon"', Scrittura e civiltà 5 (1981), pp. 17-76 [reprinted in P. Canart, Études de paléographie et de codicologie, 2 vols, Vatican City 2008, vol. 1 pp. 677-736], pp. 56, 72, 74.
A. W. Carr, Byzantine Illumination 1150-1250: the study of a provincial tradition, Chicago 1987, no. 67, fiches 6A1-6A12, 6B9-6B10.
A. W. Carr, 'Cyprus and the "Decorative Style"', Ἐπετηρὶς τοῦ Κέντρου Ἐπιστημονικῶν Ἐρευνῶν 17 (1987-1988), pp. 123-167, esp. pp. 134, 136, 142.
C. N. Constantinides and R. Browning, Dated Greek manuscripts from Cyprus to the year 1570, p. 8 n. 38.
K. Aland, Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des neuen Testaments (Arbeiten zur neutestamentlichen Textforschung 1), Berlin 1994, p. 178.
- Exhibitions:
- Greek Manuscripts, (online), 18 September 2016-
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)