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Add MS 39595
- Record Id:
- 040-002059216
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002059203
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001215.0x000198
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 39595
- Title:
- PARHAM MS XIII: Four Gospels (Gregory-Aland 552, Scrivener evan. 539, von Soden ε 252)
- Scope & Content:
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PARHAM MS XIII: Four Gospels (Gregory-Aland 552, Scrivener evan. 539, von Soden ε 252).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
Greek Manuscripts - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002059203
040-002059216 - 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 39595 : PARHAM MS XIII: Four Gospels (Gregory-Aland 552, Scrivener evan. 539, von Soden ε 252) - Contains:
- Add MS 39595, ff ii recto-verso : Fragment of a leaf from a manuscript of Symeon Metaphrastes, containing a section of the Lives of Saints Indas…
Add MS 39595, ff 1r-67v : Gospel of Matthew.
Add MS 39595, ff 68-109v : Gospel of Mark.
Add MS 39595, ff 110r-177v : Gospel of Luke, ff 112r-177v, preceded by capitula, ff 110r-111v (possibly added later).
Add MS 39595, ff 178r-228r : Gospel of John.
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- 032-002059203[0013]/040-002059216
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 39583-39671
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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228 folios
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_39595 (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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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Foliation: ff iv + 228. Three unfoliated flyleaves at the beginning and one at the end.
Dimensions: 210 x 155 mm.
Ruling: 150 x 95 mm, 27 lines per page.
Binding: Wooden boards, covered with brown leather, probably 16th-17th century. With a blind-tooled pattern of a saltire in a panel.
Decoration: Illuminated headpieces and initials. The first page of each Gospel is written in gold over magenta. Initials and titloi in magenta.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Eastern Mediterranean.
Provenance:
Acquired by Robert Curzon from the Monastery of St Sabbas the Sanctified, near Jerusalem, in 1834: inscription (f iii recto).
- Former External References:
- Curzon Greek MS 11
Curzon MS 76 - Former Internal References:
- Parham MS 13
- 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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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, p. 157.
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum, 1916-1920, London 1933, pp. 74-75.
A. Ehrhard, Überlieferung und Bestand der hagiographischen und homiletischen Literatur der griechischen Kirche von dem Anfängen bis zum Ende des 16 Jahrhunderts (TU 50-52), 2 vols, Leipzig 1936-1952, vol. 2, p. 524.
M. Richard, Inventaire des manuscrits grecs du British Museum I, Fonds Sloane, Additional, Egerton, Cottonian et Stowe, Paris 1952, p. 75.
A. W. Carr, Byzantine illumination, 1150-1250: the study of a provincial tradition, Chicago 1987, no. 68, fiches 6C10-6C11, 6F1-6F4.
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)