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Add MS 39590

Record Id:

040-002059211

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002059203

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001215.0x000193

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ISAD(G)

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Add MS 39590

Title:

PARHAM MS VIII: New Testament, without the book of Revelation (Gregory-Aland 547; Scrivener evan. 534; von Soden δ 157)

Scope & Content:

PARHAM MS VIII: New Testament, without the book of Revelation (Gregory-Aland 547; Scrivener evan. 534; von Soden δ 157). Contains Euthalian prefaces to the Epistles and prefatory notes and epigrams to the Gospels. The flyleaves are taken from a 10th-century manuscript of sermons by John Chrysostom.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Additional Manuscripts
Greek Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002059203
040-002059211

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Add MS 39583-39671 : PARHAM MANUSCRIPTS. These eighty-nine MSS., 39583-39671, were bequeathed, with Oriental MSS. 8729-8855, by Darea Curzon,…

Add MS 39590 : PARHAM MS VIII: New Testament, without the book of Revelation (Gregory-Aland 547; Scrivener evan. 534; von Soden δ 157)

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032-002059203[0008]/040-002059211

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

343 folios

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Languages:

Greek, Ancient

Scripts:

Greek

Start Date:

1000

End Date:

1099

Date Range:

11th century

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment.

Foliation: ff i-iii; 343; iv-vi, and one unfoliated slip, listed on Digitised Manuscripts as f vii.

Dimensions: 230 x 165 mm.

Ruling: 150 x 105 mm, 31 lines per page.

Binding: In wooden boards covered with brown leather (possibly 15th century), blind-tooled, with ornamental borders and stamped medallions containing dogs, etc., metal bosses in the middle and at the four corners, several of which have been lost and, in two cases, replaced by modern nails. The fore-edge is listed on Digitised Manuscripts as f ix recto.

Custodial History:

Origin: Eastern Mediterranean.

Provenance:

Owned by the Karakallou Monastery, Mount Athos.

Acquired by Robert Curzon from the Karakallou Monastery in 1837: inscription (f iii recto).

Former External References:

Curzon Greek MS 6
Curzon MS 71

Former Internal References:

Parham MS 8

Source of Acquisition:

Add MSS 39583-39671, along with Oriental MSS 8729-8855, were loaned to the British Museum by Darea Curzon, Baroness Zouche, on 19 April 1876, and bequeathed to the Museum on the death of Baroness Zouche on 7 April 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:

F. H. A. Scrivener, A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, 2 vols, 4th edn, London 1894, vol. 1, p. 252.

C. R. Gregory, Textkritik des Neuen Testamentes, 3 vols, Leipzig 1900-1909, vol. 1, p. 201, vol. 3, p. 1107.

H. von Soden, Die Schriften des Neuen Testaments, in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Textgestalt hergestellt auf Grund ihrer Textgeschichte, 4 vols, Berlin 1902-1910, vol. 1, p. 106.

Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum, 1916-1920, London 1933, pp. 66-68.

M. Richard, Inventaire des manuscrits grecs du British Museum I, Fonds Sloane, Additional, Egerton, Cottonian et Stowe, Paris 1952, p. 74.

Μ. Αubineau, Codices Chrysostomici Graeci, I: Codices Britanniae et Hiberniae, Paris 1968, p. 73, no. 87.

K. Aland, Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des neuen Testaments (Arbeiten zur neutestamentlichen Textforschung 1), Berlin 1994, p. 79.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Euthalius, of Sulca
Monastery of Caracallou, Athos, Mount