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Add MS 39591
- Record Id:
- 040-002059212
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002059203
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001215.0x000194
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- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 39591
- Title:
- PARHAM MS IX. Four Gospels (Greg.-Aland 548 e; Scrivener evan. 535; von Soden ε 1015)
- Scope & Content:
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PARHAM MS IX. Four Gospels (Greg.-Aland 548 e; Scrivener evan. 535; von Soden ε 1015). At the end a 14th-century hand has added the oikoi (acrostic "αβγ-ο") from the Office of the Akathist.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
Greek Manuscripts - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002059203
040-002059212 - 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 39591 : PARHAM MS IX. Four Gospels (Greg.-Aland 548 e; Scrivener evan. 535; von Soden ε 1015) - Contains:
- Add MS 39591, ff iii verso-42v : Gospel of Matthew, ff 1r-42v, preceded by a portrait of St Mathew the Evangelist created for Robert Curzon in the…
Add MS 39591, ff 43r-72v : Gospel of Mark, ff 45r-72v, preceded by capitula, f 43r-v, and a portrait of St Mark, f 44v.
Add MS 39591, ff 73r-122v : Gospel of Luke, ff 75r-122v, preceded by capitula, ff 73r-v, and a portrait of St Luke the Evangelist, f 74v.
Add MS 39591, ff 123r-160v : Gospel of John, ff 125r-160v, f 160v is in cruciform, preceded by capitula, f 123r, and a portrait of St John…
Add MS 39591, ff 161r-166v : Oikoi from the Akathist Hymn, ff 161v-166v, preceded by the name Γερασίμου ἱἐρωμονάχου, f 161r.
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- 032-002059203[0009]/040-002059212
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- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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166 folios
- Digitised Content:
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 1100
- End Date:
- 1899
- Date Range:
- mid 12th century-19th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Foliation: ff (iii) + 166. A number of leaves have been incorrectly bound, and the correct sequence should be ff 144, 156, 146-151, 157, 153-155, 152, 145, 158.
Dimensions: 160 x 115 mm.
Ruling: 110 x 80 mm, 26 lines per page.
Binding: Possibly of 17th century, boards covered with black leather, blind-tooled, with a leather clasp.
Decoration: Initials, titloi, and numbers of Ammonian sections in gold and over red. Headpieces illuminated in gold and colours. Before each Gospel is a miniature of the Evangelist. The first of these (f iii verso) is modern, and it is not certain that there was an original miniature of St Matthew. The three original miniatures (ff 44v, 70v and 124v) have in each case a plain gold ground and show the Evangelist seated. These were significantly overpainted at the same time as the miniature of St Matthew was added.The first 8 lines of St. John's Gospel are written in gold over red.
Some of the earlier folios (ff 2r-4r, 15v-16r) have been furnished with neums in red, and notes of lessons have been made as far as f 5r, in both cases by a later hand.
The manuscript was "improved" for Robert Curzon in the 19th century.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Eastern Mediterranean.
Provenance:
The name of Gerasimus the Hieromonk is written on f 161r.
Purchased from the Monastery of St Sabas near Jerusalem by the Hon. Robert Curzon in 1834.
- 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:
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Complete digital coverage available for this manuscript; see Digitised Manuscripts [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_39591]
- 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. 7.
F. H. A. Scrivener, A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament for the Use of Biblical students, 2 vols, 4th edn, London 1894, I, p. 252.
C. R. Gregory, Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, 3 vols, Leipzig 1900-1909, I, p. 201, and III, 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, I, p. 133.
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum, 1916-1920, London 1933, pp. 68-69.
New Palaeographical Society, Facsimiles of Ancient Manuscripts, etc., Series II, ed. E. M. Thompson and others, London 1903-1932, plate 79.
M. Richard, Inventaire des manuscrits grecs du British Museum I, Fonds Sloane, Additional, Egerton, Cottonian et Stowe, Paris 1952, p. 74.
Byzantium. Treasures of Byzantine Art and Culture, British Museum exhibition catalogue, ed. D. Buckton, London 1994, p. 196.
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)