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Add MS 37007
- Record Id:
- 040-002055527
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002055520
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001047.0x000225
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 37007
- Title:
- Gospel Lectionary with ekphonetic neumes (Greg.-Aland l 1495=[l 459]=[l 1205])
- Scope & Content:
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Gospel Lectionary with ekphonetic neumes (Greg.-Aland l 1495=[l 459]=[l 1205]).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
Greek Manuscripts - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002055520
040-002055527 - Is part of:
- Add MS 37001-37012 : Dawes Manuscripts
Add MS 37007 : Gospel Lectionary with ekphonetic neumes (Greg.-Aland l 1495=[l 459]=[l 1205]) - Contains:
- Add MS 37007, ff 1r-68r : Gospel lections from Easter Sunday up to Pentecost, ff 5r-68r, preceded by a later note note on f 1r by Daniel giving a…
Add MS 37007, ff 68r-103r : Gospel lections from Saturday after Pentecost up to Sunday 17th of the Chananaean Woman.
Add MS 37007, ff 103r-143r : Gospel lections from Saturday 1st of Luke up to Sunday of Cheesefare.
Add MS 37007, ff 143r-254r : Gospel lections from the Vigil of Great Lent up to Easter-Eve.
Add MS 37007, ff 254r-311v : Gospel lections from Synaxarion-Menologion.
Add MS 37007, ff 311v-317v : Gospel of the Seven Priests, for the Service of the Holy Annointment, ff 311v-312v, followed by the Eothina, ff 312v-317v.
Add MS 37007, ff 318r-v : A leaf from a twelfth-century codex, containing lections from Matthew 18:10-20.
Click here to View / search full list of parts of Add MS 37007 - Hierarchy:
- 032-002055520[0007]/040-002055527
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 37001-37012
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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318 folios
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_37007 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 1200
- End Date:
- 1299
- Date Range:
- 13th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Foliation: ff iv + 318. ff i and iv are paste-downs on the upper and lower inner boards, respectively.
Dimensions: 275 x 215 mm.
Ruling: 195 x 150 mm, written in two columns, 18 lines per column.
Binding: Brown leather. On the front cover is an embossed silver and gold plate, depicting Christ enthroned between the Virgin and another, bearded, figure; symbols of the four Evangelists in the corners. An image of the fore-edge can be seen on Digitised Manuscripts as f v recto.
Decoration: Illuminations of the four Evangelists (St. Luke first) on ff 3r-4v, well preserved. That of St. Matthew is protected by an old piece of embroidered silk (see digital images f 3av, 3bv, 3cv) and a fragment is still attached to that of St. Luke. Headpieces in gold and colours.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Eastern Mediterranean, owned by and likely created at the Monastery of St Nicholas in Pentrochonte, north of Berat, Albania: ownership inscription (f 1r), see further Cataldi Palau (1997) [=2008].
Provenance:
Theodore Mouzachos (Lord of Berat between 1389 and 1412), received the manuscript for safe-keeping in 1399 from Daniel, the hieromonk at the Monastery of St Nicholas, along with a number of other manuscripts: inscription (f 1r).
Church of the Virgin of Blacherna, Berat, owned in November 1900: Alexoudes (1901), p. 72.
John Eleutheriou of Corfu, owned some time between 1900 and 1904: Gregory (1900-1909), p. 428.
- Former External References:
- Berat, Bibl. Metropoleos 8
- Source of Acquisition:
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Purchased from Rev. John Samuel Dawes, chaplain at Corfu, 8 October 1904.
- Administrative Context:
- Eastern Mediterranean, owned by and likely created at the Monastery of St Nicholas in Pentrochonte, north of Berat, Albania: ownership inscription (f 1r), see further Cataldi Palau (1997) [=2008].
- Information About Copies:
- Complete digital coverage available for this manuscript; see Digitised Manuscripts [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_37007]
- Publications:
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A. Alexoudes, 'Δύο σημειώματα ἐκ χειρογράφων', Δελτίον τῆς ἱστορικῆς καὶ ἐθνολογικπης ἑταιρείας τπης Ἑλλάδος 4 (1892) pp. 275-281.
A. Alexoudes, 'Κατάλογος τῶν ἐν ταῖς ἱεραῖς ἐκκλησίαις τῆς συνοικίας Κάστρου, πόλεως Βερατίου τῆς μητροπόλεως Βελεγράδων εὑρισκομένων ἀρχαίων χειρογράφων, ὑπὸ τοῦ μητροπολίτου Ἀμασείας', Δελτίον τῆς ἱστορικῆς καὶ ἐθνολογικπης ἑταιρείας τπης Ἑλλάδος 5 (1900) pp. 352-369, pp. 355-356, no. 8.
A. Alexoudes, 'Κώδικες ἐπαρχίας Βελεγράδων', Ἐκκλησιαστικὴ Ἀλήθεια 21 (1901) pp. 71-72, no. 46.
C. R. Gregory, Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, 3 vols, Leipzig 1900-1909, pp. 428, 1268, 1287.
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum, 1900-1905, London 1907, p. 279.
M. Richard, Inventaire des manuscrits grecs du British Museum I, Fonds Sloane, Additional, Egerton, Cottonian et Stowe, Paris 1952, pp. 68-69.
K. Aland, Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des neuen Testaments (Arbeiten zur neutestamentlichen Textforschung 1), Berlin 1994, p. 309.
A. Cataldi Palau, 'Manoscritti epiroti a Londra (British Library), ed a Oxford (Magdalen College)', Codices Manuscripti 20/21 (1997) pp. 3–59, pp. 4-11 [reprinted in A. Cataldi Palau, Studies in Greek Manuscripts (Testi, studi, strumenti 24), 2 vols, Spoleto 2008, vol. 2 pp. 443-521, pp. 449-472].
- Exhibitions:
- Greek Manuscripts, (online), 18 September 2016-
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)