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Add MS 39583
- Record Id:
- 040-002059204
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002059203
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- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001215.0x00018c
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- Add MS 39583
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PARHAM MS I: Fragments collected by Robert Curzon to illustrate the history of writing. The volume originally contained both Western and Oriental fragments, but the latter have now been transferred to their appropriate departments (Egyptian Antiquities, British Museum, and Asian and African Studies, British Library)
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PARHAM MS I: Fragments collected by Robert Curzon to illustrate the history of writing. The volume originally contained both Western and Oriental fragments, but the latter have now been transferred to their appropriate departments (Egyptian Antiquities, British Museum, and Asian and African Studies, British Library).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
Greek Manuscripts - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002059203
040-002059204 - Is part of:
- Add MS 39583-39671 : PARHAM MANUSCRIPTS. These eighty-nine MSS., 39583-39671, were bequeathed, with Oriental MSS. 8729-8855, by Darea Curzon,…
Add MS 39583 : PARHAM MS I: Fragments collected by Robert Curzon to illustrate the history of writing. The volume originally contained both Western… - Contains:
- Add MS 39583, ff 9v-12v : Fragment of a Greek Gospel lectionary (Gregory-Aland l 182, Scrivener evst. 233). The fragments contain…
Add MS 39583, ff 13v-14v : A leaf from a manuscript containing Ephraem the Syrian, Sermo Compunctorius (CPG 3908), corresponding to pp. 37C8 - 38E3…
Add MS 39583, ff 19v-20r : Miniature of St. Mark in the Byzantine style of the ?13th century, probably from a Greek Gospel-book, f 20r, preceded by…
Add MS 39583, ff 21r-37v : Facsimile transcript of the Prague fragment of the Codex Forojuliensis of the Gospels (6th-7th cent.), made in 1764…
Add MS 39583, ff 39r-v : Leaf from a commentary on the Aphorisms of Hippocrates (TLG 0627.012), in Middle Irish, covering v.64-72. The first…
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- File
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39 folios
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
Irish, Middle
Latin - Scripts:
- Greek
Latin - Start Date:
- 0800
- End Date:
- 1764
- Date Range:
- 800-1764
- Era:
- CE
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Material: Parchment and paper.
Foliation: ff 39 + i. f i is the Curzon family crest pasted onto the inside upper cover. Two unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and two at the end. ff 1-8 are now in the Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan, British Museum. ff 15-18 are now in the Department of Asian and African Studies, British Library.
Dimensions: 335 x 265 mm.
Ruling: Irregular.
Binding: Brown leather.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: The fragments were collected by Robert Curzon in the 1830s.
- Former External References:
- Curzon MS 1
- Former Internal References:
- Parham MS 1
- Source of Acquisition:
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Add MSS 39583-39671, along with Oriental MSS 8729-8855, were bequeathed to the British Museum by Darea Curzon, Baroness Zouche (d. 1917), having been part of the collection formed at Parham, Co. Sussex, by the Hon. Robert Curzon, afterwards 14th Baron Zouche, as the result of his travels in the Levant, etc., in 1833 and later. A copy of Robert Curzon's Catalogue of Materials for Writing, ... Rolls and other Manuscripts and Oriental Manuscript Books (1849), with manuscript additions, accompanied the gift, and is now Add MS 64098.
- Administrative Context:
- The fragments were collected by Robert Curzon in the 1830s.
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Complete digital coverage available for this manuscript; see Digitised Manuscripts [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_39583].
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Sancti patris nostri Ephraem Syri opera omnia quae exstant, Graece, Syriace, Latine, in sex tomos distributa, ed. by J. S. Asseman, 6 vols, Rome 1732-1746, vol. 1 (1732).
R. Curzon, Catalogue of Materials for Writing, Early Writings on Tablets and Stones, Rolled and other Manuscripts and Oriental Manuscript Books, in the library of the Honourable Robert Curzon, at Parham in the county of Sussex, London 1849, p. 11, no. 1.
F. H. A. Scrivener, Contributions to the Criticism of the Greek New Testament, being the Introduction to an Edition of the Codex Augiensis and Fifty Other Manuscripts, Cambridge 1859, p. 52 [on ff 10r-12v].
F. H. A. Scrivener, A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament for the Use of Biblical students, 2 vols, 4th edn, London 1894, p. 343.
C. R. Gregory, Textkritik des Neuen Testamentes, 3 vols, Leipzig 1900-1909, vol. 1, p. 402.
Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts in the British Museum, Vol. 2, London 1926, pp. 629-630.
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum, 1916-1920, London 1933, pp. 55-56.
M. Richard, Inventaire des manuscrits grecs du British Museum I, Fonds Sloane, Additional, Egerton, Cottonian et Stowe, Paris 1952, p. 72.
E. Crisci, 'La maiuscola ogivale dirittaorigini, tipologie, dislocazioni', Scrittura e Civiltà 9 (1985) pp. 103-145, p. 136 [on ff 10r-12v].
K. Aland, Kurzgefasste Listeder griechischen Handschriften des neuen Testaments (Arbeiten zur neutestamentlichen Textforschung 1), Berlin 1994,p. 229.
T. S. Pattie, 'A Fragment of Ephraem the Syrian and the rare word ἀσιάντως vindicated', British Library Journal 20 (1994) pp. 83-90 [on ff 14r-v].
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)