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Record Id:

040-002059220

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002059203

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001215.0x00019c

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Add MS 39599

Title:

PARHAM MS XVII: New Testament, Acts and Epistles (Gregory-Aland 911 [formerly 227ac., 282p.]; Scrivener act. 217 and Paul. 235; von Soden ο29), imperfect, with ekphonetic neums and a marginal commentary

Scope & Content:

PARHAM MS XVII: New Testament, Acts and Epistles (Gregory-Aland 911 [formerly 227ac., 282p.]; Scrivener act. 217 and Paul. 235; von Soden ο29), with ekphonetic neums, lection notes, and a marginal commentary, being a combination of the commentaries of Theophylact and Oecumenius on Acts, an abbreviated version of the commentary of Oecumenius on the Pauline Epistles, and a selection from the text now in Cramer's Catena (1840) on the Catholic Epistles. Imperfect at the end. The volume also contained Revelation, which was cut out by the Hegoumenos of the Karakallou Monastery, and which is now bound separately as Add MS 39601. The missing portion of the Catholic Epistles, now lost, may have been cut out at the same time.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Additional Manuscripts
Greek Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002059203
040-002059220

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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 39599 : PARHAM MS XVII: New Testament, Acts and Epistles (Gregory-Aland 911 [formerly 227ac., 282p.]; Scrivener act. 217 and Paul. 235;…

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032-002059203[0017]/040-002059220

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

318 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 + 318.

Dimensions: 265 x 110 mm.

Ruling: 215 x 170 mm, 42 lines per page.

Binding: in boards covered with brown leather, blind-tooled with a panel pattern and varnished, perhaps of the 16th century.

Custodial History:

Origin: Greece (Mount Athos?)

Provenance:

Owned by the Karakallou Monastery, Mount Athos, until 1837.

The Revelation portion of the original manuscript (now Add MS 39601) was cut out by the Hegoumenos of the Karakallou Monastery: Curzon, Monasteries (1849), chapter 25.

Acquired by Robert Curzon from the Karakallou Monastery in 1837: inscription (inside upper cover).

Former External References:

Curzon Greek MS 15
Curzon MS 80

Former Internal References:

Parham MS 17

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:

Greece (Mount Athos?)

Information About Copies:

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Publications:

J. A. Cramer, Catena in Epistolas Catholicas, Oxford 1840.

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. 15.

R. Curzon, Visits to Monasteries in the Levant, London 1849.

F. H. A. Scrivener, A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, 2 vols, 4th edn, London 1894, vol. 1, p. 299.

C. R. Gregory, Textkritik des Neuen Testamentes, 3 vols, Leipzig 1900-1909, vol. 1, p. 282, vol. 3, p. 1112.

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. 272.

Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum, 1916-1920, London 1933, pp. 78-80.

M. Richard, Inventaire des manuscrits grecs du British Museum I, Fonds Sloane, Additional, Egerton, Cottonian et Stowe, Paris 1952, p. 76.

K. Aland, Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des neuen Testaments (Arbeiten zur neutestamentlichen Textforschung 1), Berlin 1994, p. 101.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Monastery of Caracallou, Athos, Mount
Oecumenius, Bishop of Tricca
Theophylact, of Bulgaria, c 1050-c 1108

Related Archive Descriptions:

Add MS 39601