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Add MS 39587
- Record Id:
- 040-002059208
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002059203
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001215.0x000190
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 39587
- Title:
- PARHAM MS V: Psalter (Rahlfs 1091)
- Scope & Content:
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PARHAM MS V: Psalter (Rahlfs 1091). According to Rahlfs (1914), pp. 108-109, this manuscript and Add MS 39588 (Parham MS VI) were originally a single manuscript.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
Greek Manuscripts - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002059203
040-002059208 - 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 39587 : PARHAM MS V: Psalter (Rahlfs 1091) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002059203[0005]/040-002059208
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 39583-39671
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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192 folios
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_39587 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 1100
- End Date:
- 1199
- Date Range:
- 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Foliation: ff i + 192. f i is the paste-down on the upper board. Two unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and two at the end.
Dimensions: 180 x 130 mm.
Ruling: 129 x 90 mm, 20 lines per page.
Binding: Half black, modern English, by Charles Lewis, of black velvet studded on each cover with five silver bosses of open work in silver set with crystals.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Eastern Mediterranean.
Provenance:
Owned by the Monastery of St. Sabba near Jerusalem.
Purchased by Robert Curzon from the Monastery of St. Sabba in 1834: ownership inscription (f i recto).
- 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:
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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. 3.
A. Rahlfs, Verzeichnis der griechischen Handschriften des Alten Testaments (Nachrichten von der königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen philol.-hist. Klasse), Berlin 1914, pp. 108-109.
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum, 1916-1920, London 1933, p. 62.
M. Richard, Inventaire des manuscrits grecs du British Museum I, Fonds Sloane, Additional, Egerton, Cottonian et Stowe, Paris 1952, p. 73.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)