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Add MS 37008
- Record Id:
- 040-002055528
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002055520
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001047.0x000226
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 37008
- Title:
- Gospel Lectionary (Gregory-Aland l 1496 =[l 461]=[ l 1206])
- Scope & Content:
- Gospel Lectionary (Gregory-Aland l 1496 =[l 461]=[ l 1206]).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
Greek Manuscripts - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002055520
040-002055528 - Is part of:
- Add MS 37001-37012 : Dawes Manuscripts
Add MS 37008 : Gospel Lectionary (Gregory-Aland l 1496 =[l 461]=[ l 1206]) - Contains:
- Add MS 37008, ff 1r-45v : Gospel lections from Easter to Pentecost, ff 2r-45v, preceded by ownership notes f 1r, and a portrait of St John…
Add MS 37008, ff 46r-145v : Gospel lections from after Pentecost up to the beginning of New Year, ff 46r-145r; f 145r ends in a frame of a cross…
Add MS 37008, ff 146r-255r : Gospel lections from the beginning of New Year up to Sunday of Cheesefare.
Add MS 37008, ff 255r-347r : Gospel lections from 1st Saturday of Lent up to Easter-Eve.
Add MS 37008, ff 347v-386r : Gospel lections from Synaxarion-Menaion, ff 347v-385v, followed by lections on various feasts, occasions and liturgies,…
Add MS 37008, ff 386v-397v : Eothina, ff 386v-396v, followed by the colophon, ff 397r-v.
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- 032-002055520[0008]/040-002055528
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 37001-37012
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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397 folios
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_37008 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 1413
- End Date:
- 1413
- Date Range:
- 1413
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Italian paper (of varying types, listed by Cataldi Palau (1997), p. 13 [=2008, p. 477]).
Foliation: ff ii + 397. f i is the paste-down on the inner upper board.
Dimensions: 285 x 200 mm.
Ruling: 195 x 145 mm, written in two columns, 23 lines per column.
Binding: Stamped red leather binding (15th cent.), with remains of silver bosses and clasps.
Scribe: Γεώργιος Σιδηροκαστρίτης, Repertorium 1A, no. 70.
Decoration: Coloured portrait of St. John, f 1v. Head-pieces in red, black and green.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Eastern Mediterranean (Berat), created at the Monastery of St. Marina in 1413: colophon (ff 397r-v).
Provenance:
Later notes on f 1r include a list of 28 books belonging to the church of St. Marina at Berat. On f 46r is a rubric heading in a Slavonic language.
In Berat in 1900: Alexoudes (1900), p. 545.
John Eleutheriou of Corfu, owned some time between 1900 and 1904: Gregory (1900-1909), p. 428.
- Former External References:
- Berat, Bibl. Metropoleos 10
- Source of Acquisition:
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Purchased from Rev. John Samuel Dawes, chaplain at Corfu, 8 October 1904.
- Administrative Context:
- Eastern Mediterranean (Berat), created at the Monastery of St. Marina in 1413: colophon (ff 397r-v).
- Information About Copies:
- Complete digital coverage available for this manuscript; see Digitised Manuscripts [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts]
- Publications:
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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. 357-359, no. 10.
A. Alexoudes, 'Κώδικες ἐπαρχίας Βελεγράδων', Ἐκκλησιαστικὴ Ἀλήθεια 20 (1900) p. 545, no. 39.
C. R. Gregory, Textkritik des Neuen Testamentes, 3 vols, Leipzig 1900-1909, pp. 428, 1268, 1287.
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum, 1900-1905, London 1907, pp. 279-280.
M. Richard, Inventaire des manuscrits grecs du British Museum I, Fonds Sloane, Additional, Egerton, Cottonian et Stowe, Paris 1952, p. 69.
E. Gamillscheg and D. Harlfinger, Repertorium der griechischen Kopisten 800-1600, 1: Grossbritannien (Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Byzantinistik 3.1), 3 vols, no.70, Vienna 1981.
I. Spatharakis, Corpus of Dated Illuminated Greek Manuscripts to the Year 1453, (Byzantina Neerlandica 8), 2 vols, Leiden 1981, p. 68, no. 280.
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. 11-15 [reprinted in A. Cataldi Palau, Studies in Greek Manuscripts (Testi, studi, strumenti 24), 2 vols, Spoleto 2008, vol. 2 pp. 443-521, pp. 472-482].
- Exhibitions:
- Greek Manuscripts, (online), 18 September 2016-
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Eleutheriou, John, Late 19th century
George, Siderocastrites
Kyrikalene, Maria, wife of Nikephoros Lubros
Lubros, Nikephoros, of Belgrade
Monastery of St Marina at Berat, Albania
Siderokastrites, Georgios, fl 1st quarter of the 15th century