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Add MS 39586
- Record Id:
- 040-002059207
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002059203
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001215.0x00018f
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- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 39586
- Title:
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PARHAM MS IV: Psalter and Canticles (Rahlfs 1090), with later additions
- Scope & Content:
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PARHAM MS IV: Psalter and Canticles (Rahlfs 1090), with later additions on extra leaves, original and inserted, at beginning and end.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
Greek Manuscripts - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002059203
040-002059207 - 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 39586 : PARHAM MS IV: Psalter and Canticles (Rahlfs 1090), with later additions - Contains:
- Add MS 39586, ff 1v-201v : Psalter, ff 2r-201v, preceded by a much-defaced miniature of the Psalmist, f 1v, added later, in the second half of the…
Add MS 39586, ff 202r-218r : Canticles.
Add MS 39586, ff 218v-221v : Miscellaneous prayers: a penitential prayer, occurring in the ἀκολουθία εἰς ἱερέα…
Add MS 39586, ff ii recto-v verso : Various notes, mainly inovcations or ownership notes, and also a prayer to the Virgin for deliverance from…
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- 032-002059203[0004]/040-002059207
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- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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221 folios
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_39586 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
Greek, Modern - Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 1000
- End Date:
- 1040
- Date Range:
- Early 11th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Foliation: ff vi + 221. f i is the board of the front cover.
Dimensions: 145 x 110 mm.
Ruling: 90 x 60 mm, 20 lines per page.
Binding: Bound in boards covered with blind-tooled leather, originally red (17th century), each studded with five brass bosses, most of which are lost, and with traces of a clasp. On the board of the front cover (f i recto) is written Γαβρηλ Βγ. The fore-edge can be viewed on Digitised Manuscripts as f viii recto.
Decoration: much-defaced miniature of the Psalmist, f 1v. Decorated headpiece, f 2r. Initials, headings and points in red. Some scribblings and drawings in the margins.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Eastern Mediterranean.
Provenance:
Archbishop Athanasius of Imbros, owned in 1627: ownership inscription (f 218r): + Ἐτούτο τὸ ψαλτηριον εἴνε ἐμοὶ Ἀθανασίου ἀρχιεπισκόπου καὶ τὸ ἐγόρασα, ἀπὸ τὸ Σκόπελο, ἀπο τὸ μαστρο Γιοργίου Τζαγκαρ(ίου?) καὶ ἔδοκα, ἄσπρα, ἐκατὸν ἐπτὰ, καὶ ὅποιος μου το πάρι [=ἀπάρῃ] νὰ ἐχη τὰς ἀρὰς τῶν ἀγίων πατέρων, ἠ δὲ καὶ τουτο δώσω ἐγὼ νὰ ᾖναι εἰς αὐτὸν ἡ ἐυλογία τοῦ Δαυίδ. ,ἀχκζ
Owned by the Monastery of St. Paul [on Mount Athos?] and then by the Karakallou Monastery on Mount Athos: ownership inscription, f ii recto, τοῦτω το ψαλτηρἠων γἴνε τοῦ γηου (?) ἀποστόλοῦ [τοῦ Καρακαλου added] καὶ ὁπις [=ὀποῖος] το ἀποζηγώσι να εχη τας ρας [=ἀράς] τω: τρηγακοσιω· θεωφωρων πατέρων τῆ καταρα αμην.
Acquired by Robert Curzon at the Karakallou Monastery in 1834: Curzon (1849), p. 21, though a note on f iv recto states that the MS was bought from the Monastery of St. Sabba, near Jerusalem.
- Former External References:
- Curzon Greek MS 2
Curzon MS 67 - Former Internal References:
- Parham MS 4
- 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.
- Information About Copies:
- Complete digital coverage available for this manuscript; see Digitised Manuscripts [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts]
- Publications:
- 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. 3.
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.
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum, 1916-1920, London 1933, pp. 60-62.
M. Richard, Inventaire des manuscrits grecs du British Museum I, Fonds Sloane, Additional, Egerton, Cottonian et Stowe, Paris 1952, p. 73.
J. Lowden, 'Observations on illustrated Byzantine Psalters', Art Bulletin 70 (1988) pp. 242–260 (pp. 259-260). - Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)