Add MS 39588

Origin: Eastern Mediterranean.

Provenance:

Among the fragments preserved as ff 41r-49v (but not part of the original manuscript) are a number of inscriptions:

f 48v: Γράψας εγὼ Ιγνὰτιος μοναχὸς (but not in the same hand as the rest of the text on ff 47r-48v), 18th century.

Ownership note of Christopher the monk, 18th century, f 49v: Χριστόφορος μῶνάχός + εὐχῶν τῶν ἀγίῶν πατέρων ἡμῶν κῦριε Ἰησοῦ Χριστέ ο θεος ἡμῶν ἔλέσον ημῶν αμὴν.

Owned by the Monastery of St. Sabba near Jerusalem.

Purchased by Robert Curzon from the Monastery of St. Sabba near Jerusalem in 1834: Curzon 1849, p. 22. A note by Curzon on f i recto states 'I forget whether I got this MS. at Therapia, of an old woman, who lived at the top of the hill, behind Ld. Ponsonby's stables; from whom I got 4 bad MSS. of the 16th century or whether I got it at Athens, from a certain schoolmaster'. Rahlfs' belief that this manuscript was originally part of Add MS 39587 makes it more probable that Curzon acquired it at St. Sabba (the source of Add MS 39587).