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Add MS 39585
- Record Id:
- 040-002059206
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002059203
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- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001215.0x00018e
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- Add MS 39585
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PARHAM MS III: Octateuch (Rahlfs 426), imperfect
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PARHAM MS III: Octateuch (Rahlfs 426), ff 1r-239v, imperfect, missing leaves before f 1 and after f 29. ff 63r-93v are in a different and later (possibly 13th century) hand, presumably written to replace lost leaves. Followed by miscellaneous notes and scribblings, ff 239v-240v, including incipits written by George Baiophoros, of Anthologiae Graecae Appendix, Epigrammata exhortatoria et supplicatoria (TLG 7052.004) Epigram 100. 1-7, f 239v, the beginning of John Chrysostom, In Matthaeum Homiliae 43 (TLG 2062.152) and the beginning of Gregory of Cyprus' Encomium of St George (PG 142, Coll 300-345), f 240r. On f 240v are two prayers in vulgar orthography, inc. Δεσποινα υπαὶραγαθε ἐλπης θεοτοκε (prayer to the Virgin) and Τάς εσπέρύνας ὑμών ἔυχας προσδέξαὶ (evening prayer), as well as a copy of Psalm 142:1-3. f 240r is a palimpsest,the original writing, seemingly of the 11th century, is in two columns, and contains part of the Life of St. Gregorius Agrigentius (BHG 707b, PG 116 Col. 213
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
Greek Manuscripts - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002059203
040-002059206 - 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 39585 : PARHAM MS III: Octateuch (Rahlfs 426), imperfect - Hierarchy:
- 032-002059203[0003]/040-002059206
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- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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240 folios
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- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_39585 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 1000
- End Date:
- 1099
- Date Range:
- 11th century
- Era:
- CE
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Material: Parchment.
Foliation: ff v 240. f 240 is followed by an unfoliated photographic reproduction of f 240 (palimpsest). Three unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and two at the end.
Dimensions: 255 x 200 mm.
Ruling: 190 x 60 mm, written in two columns, 36 lines per column.
Binding: Bound in boards covered with black leather, blind-tooled with a plain double-line border and a saltire cross, fastened by a leathern thong. On the front cover has been fastened a late Byzantine icon (which may be as late as the sixteenth cent.), given to Curzon (according to a note inside the cover, f i) at Jerusalem by his English servant, William Fuller. It is attached to the binding by a silver frame, in the corners of which are set four stones from Mount Sinai, while in each of the upper lower rims are six stones from the bed of the Jordan. The icon is on wood. The faces are raised, perhaps by means of wax, and the whole is varnished. A double row of saints is shown, which are as follows:-Top row, St John the Baptist, St Nicholas, St George, St Demetrios, Bottom row, Prophet Daniel, Holy Barnabas, Holy Sophronios, St Christophoros. The fore-edge image is listed on Digitised Manuscripts as f vi recto.
Scribe: Γεώργιος, Repertorium 1A, no. 75, ff 1r-62v, 94r-239v (colophon f 239v), Γεώργιος Βαιοφόρος, ff 239v-240r (Gamillscheg 1981, Cataldi Palau 2008).
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Eastern Mediterranean (Constantinople?). Written by Georgios, a monk: Colophon f 239v, +Οἱ ἀναγινώσκοντες εὔχεσθε διὰ τὸν Κύριον ὑπὲρ τοῦ γράψαντος Γεωργίου ἁμαρτωλοῦ μοναχοῦ.
Provenance:
In Constantinople in the early 15th century, possibly in the possession of the Prodromou-Petra Monastery: hand of George Baiophoros, ff 239v-240r.
Various notices of birth and death dates, including one with a date (1463-1464): ἐπὶ ἔτους ,ϚϠοβ΄ μηνι Σεπτεμβριῶ εἰς τὰς ιδ΄ ημερα παρασκευοῖ ἐγενήθην υἱὸς του Στεφανοῦ ὅ Νίκας ἐκ θυγατερας Νικολαοῦ τοῦ καρτεροφη (?) ονοματι Δουκενας. f 239v.
Owned by the Monastery of St. Sabba near Jerusalem until 1834, when it was purchased by Robert Curzon: f iii recto.
- Former External References:
- Curzon Greek MS 1
Curzon MS 66 - Former Internal References:
- Parham MS 3
- 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:
- Eastern Mediterranean (Constantinople?). Written by Georgios, a monk: Colophon f 239v, +Οἱ ἀναγινώσκοντες εὔχεσθε διὰ τὸν Κύριον ὑπὲρ τοῦ γράψαντος Γεωργίου ἁμαρτωλοῦ μοναχοῦ.
- Publications:
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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. 21, no. 1.
A. Rahlfs, Verzeichnis der griechischen Handschriften des Alten Testaments (Nachrichten von der königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen philol.-hist. Klasse), Berlin 1914, p. 108.
New Palaeographical Society, Facsimiles of Ancient Manuscripts, etc., Series I, ed. E. M. Thompson and others, London 1903-1912, pl. 178.
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum, 1916-1920, London 1933, pp. 57-59.
M. Richard, Inventaire des manuscrits grecs du British Museum I, Fonds Sloane, Additional, Egerton, Cottonian et Stowe, Paris 1952, p. 73.
E. Gamillscheg, 'Zur Rekonstruktion einer Konstantinopolitaner Bibliothek', Rivista di Studi Bizantini e Slavi 1 (1981) pp. 283-293, pp. 284, 287.
A. Cataldi Palau, 'Un nuovo manoscritto palinsesto di Giorgio Baiophoros', in Libri Palinsesti Greci: Conservazione, Restauro Digitale, Studio. Atti del Convegno Internazionale, Villa Mondragone-Monte Porzio Catone-Università di Roma "Tor Vergata"-Biblioteca del Monumento nazionale di Grottaferrata, 21-24 aprile 2004, ed. S. Lucà, Rome 2008, pp. 263-277. [Reprinted in Studies in Greek Manuscripts (Testi, Studi, Strumenti, 24), 2 vols, Spoleto 2008, vol 1, pp. 281-301.]
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)