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Add MS 39594
- Record Id:
- 040-002059215
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002059203
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001215.0x000197
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- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 39594
- Title:
- PARHAM MS XII: Four Gospels (Gregory-Aland 551, Scrivener evan. 538, von Soden ε 251)
- Scope & Content:
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PARHAM MS XII: Four Gospels (Gregory-Aland 551, Scrivener evan. 538, von Soden ε 251), with capitula, Ammonian sections, lection notes, and subscriptions. Followed by synaxaria, added on paper in the late fifteenth century.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
Greek Manuscripts - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002059203
040-002059215 - 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 39594 : PARHAM MS XII: Four Gospels (Gregory-Aland 551, Scrivener evan. 538, von Soden ε 251) - Contains:
- Add MS 39594, ff 1r-57v : Gospel of Matthew, ff 4r-57v, preceded by capitula, ff 1r-2r, and a portrait of St Matthew the Evangelist, f 3v.
Add MS 39594, ff 58r-95v : Gospel of Mark, ff 60r-95v, preceded by capitula, ff 58r-v, and a portrait of St Mark the Evangelist, f 59v.
Add MS 39594, ff 95v-161r : Gospel of Luke, ff 98v-161r, preceded by capitula, ff 95v-96r, f 98r, and a portrait of St Luke the Evangelist, f 97v.
Add MS 39594, ff 161v-209v : Gospel of John, ff 163r-209r, preceded by capitula, ff 161v, and a portrait of St John the Evangelist, f 162v.followed…
Add MS 39594, ff 210r-234v : Paper leaves inserted in the late fifteenth century, containing synaxaria for Sundays and movable feasts and for…
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- 032-002059203[0012]/040-002059215
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 39583-39671
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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234 folios
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_39594 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 1100
- End Date:
- 1499
- Date Range:
- 12th century-15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment and paper (Italian, the watermark being similar to Briquet no. 15366).
Foliation: ff i + 234. ff 210-234 are on paper. f i is the board of the inside front cover. Unfoliated blank paper leaf after f 232.
Dimensions: 220 x 155 mm.
Ruling: 145 x 95 mm, written in two columns, 23 lines per page.
Binding: Probably 16th century. Boards covered with dark brown leather. The upper cover has a blind-stamped border with a cross in the middle, the spaces left being filled irregularly with stamped designs, rosettes, rings containing birds, etc. The lower cover has a more regular pattern, also blind-stamped, a border enclosing a panel divided by diagonal lines crossing, the spaces being occupied by conventional designs. The fore-edge can be viewed on Digitised Manuscripts as f ii recto.
Decoration: Full-page miniatures of the Evangelists. Illuminated headpieces and initials. Other initials, headings, titloi, lection notes, and section numbers in varying tints.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Greece (Mount Athos?).
Provenance:
Karakallou Monastery on Mount Athos, owned: ownership notes (ff 232v, 233v).
Acquired by Robert Curzon from the Karakallou Monastery on Mount Athos in 1837: note (inside upper cover).
- Former External References:
- Curzon Greek MS 10
Curzon MS 75 - Former Internal References:
- Parham MS 12
- 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:
- Greece (Mount Athos?).
- Information About Copies:
- Complete digital coverage available for this manuscript; see Digitised Manuscripts [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_39594].
- Publications:
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F. H. A. Scrivener, A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, 2 vols, 4th edn, London 1894, vol. 1, p. 253.
C. R. Gregory, Textkritik des Neuen Testamentes, 3 vols, Leipzig 1900-1909, vol. 1, p. 202.
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, pp. 156-157.
C. M. Briquet, Les Filigranes, 4 vols, Geneva, etc. 1907 (repr. Amsterdam 1965).
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum, 1916-1920, London 1933, pp. 73-74.
M. Richard, Inventaire des manuscrits grecs du British Museum I, Fonds Sloane, Additional, Egerton, Cottonian et Stowe, Paris 1952, p. 75.
K. Aland, Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des neuen Testaments (Arbeiten zur neutestamentlichen Textforschung 1), Berlin 1994, p. 79.
I. Vassis, Initia Carminum Byzantinorum, Berlin 2005, p. 789.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)