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Add MS 39589
- Record Id:
- 040-002059210
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002059203
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001215.0x000192
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- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 39589
- Title:
- PARHAM MS VII: Psalter (Rahlfs 1092) with introduction and commentary based on that of Euthymius Zigabenus (PG 128), attributed in the manuscript to Nicephorus Blemmydes, imperfect
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PARHAM MS VII: Psalter (Rahlfs 1092) with introduction and commentary based on that of Euthymius Zigabenus (PG 128), attributed in the manuscript to Nicephorus Blemmydes, imperfect, expl. Psalm 51:9 ἀλλ' ἐπήλ[πισεν, and missing leaves after ff 4, 6, 34 (2 leaves), and 53. The text of the introduction and the commentary on Psalm 1 is that of Zigabenus, and the commentary on the inscriptions is a shortened version of that of Zigabenus. The notes on the text of the Psalms are different from, and much briefer than, Zigabenus's commentary, though apparently based on it in the main and showing not infrequent verbal agreements with it which cannot be accidental. This text apparently reflects an early version of Nicephorus' Blemmydes' commentary on the Psalms (PG 142, Coll. 1322-1622), which was primarily based on that of Zigabenus, and later expanded into a much longer commentary, which is the text to be found in the Patrologia Graeca. See further Bell (1929-1930).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
Greek Manuscripts - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002059203
040-002059210 - 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 39589 : PARHAM MS VII: Psalter (Rahlfs 1092) with introduction and commentary based on that of Euthymius Zigabenus (PG 128), attributed in… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002059203[0007]/040-002059210
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 39583-39671
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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87 folios
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_39589 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 1150
- End Date:
- 1199
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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Material: Parchment.
Foliation: ff ii + 87. f i is the paste-down on the upper board. One unfoliated modern paper flyleaf at the end.
Dimensions: 170 x 140 mm.
Ruling: 110 x 70 mm, 19 lines per page.
Binding: Modern, of blue velvet.
Decoration: Initials and headings in red. Ornamental headpieces in red and green before the introduction to the commentary and the Psalter (ff 1r, 12r). On f 11v are the remains of a miniature, representing the Psalmist. Almost all the colour has flaked off, leaving only the outlines; the nimbus was of gold, and Δα(υεί)δ is written in red on the right of the head.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Eastern Mediterranean.
Provenance:
Purchased by Robert Curzon in Therapia in 1837 for 1 dollar: ownership inscription (f i recto).
- Former External References:
- Curzon Greek MS 5
Curzon MS 70 - Former Internal References:
- Parham MS 7
- 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. 22, no. 5.
A. Rahlfs, Verzeichnis der griechischen Handschrifte ndes Alten Testaments (Nachrichten von der königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen philol.-hist. Klasse), Berlin 1914, p. 105.
H. I. Bell, 'Commentary on the Psalms by Nicephorus Blemmydes', Byzantinische Zeitschrift 30 (1929-1930) pp. 295-300 [Departmental pamphlet no. 188].
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum, 1916-1920, London 1933, pp. 65-66.
M. Richard, Inventaire des manuscrits grecs du British Museum I, Fonds Sloane, Additional, Egerton, Cottonian et Stowe, Paris 1952, pp. 73-74.
J. Lowden, 'Observations on Illustrated Byzantine Psalters', Art Bulletin 70 (1988) pp. 242-260 [Departmental pamphlet no. 3197].
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)