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Record Id:

040-002059221

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002059203

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Add MS 39600

Title:

PARHAM MS XVIII: New Testament, Acts and Epistles (Gregory-Aland 912 [formerly Gregory 228ac. and 283p.]; Scrivener act. 218, Paul. 236; von Soden α 366), with the prefaces of Euthalius and Theodoret

Scope & Content:

PARHAM MS XVIII: New Testament, Acts and Epistles (Gregory-Aland 912 [formerly Gregory 228ac. and 283p.]; Scrivener act. 218, Paul. 236; von Soden α 366, with the prefaces of Euthalius and Theodoret.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Additional Manuscripts
Greek Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002059203
040-002059221

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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 39600 : PARHAM MS XVIII: New Testament, Acts and Epistles (Gregory-Aland 912 [formerly Gregory 228ac. and 283p.]; Scrivener act. 218, Paul.…

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032-002059203[0018]/040-002059221

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

206 folios

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Languages:

Greek, Ancient

Scripts:

Greek

Start Date:

1200

End Date:

1299

Date Range:

13th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment.

Foliation: ff iii + 206. f i is the inside upper board. ff ii-iii is a line-engraving of the Monastery of Simonopetra, dated 1836, which was bound with the volume in the 19th century (see further Papastratos 1990, II, pp. 467-68 (no. 498). A later lithograph of this engraving is now in the British Museum, Department of Prints & Drawings, with the register number 1912,1016.19. In addition, one unfoliated modern paper flyleaf at the beginning (before f ii) and one at the end.

Dimensions: 340 x 200 mm

Ruling: 250 x 80 mm, written in two columns, 31 lines per column.

Binding: 19th century binding of red velvet.

Decoration: Decorated headpiece in red at the beginning of Acts. Initials, subscriptions, titloi, and lection notes in red.

Custodial History:

Origin: Greece (Mount Athos?)

Provenance:

Owned by Simonopetra Monastery, Mount Athos: inscription by the Kathegoumenos Ambrosius in 1836 (ff ii verso-iii recto).

Acquired by Robert Curzon from Simonopetra Monastery, Mount Athos, in 1837: inscription (inside upper cover).

Former External References:

Curzon Greek MS 16
Curzon MS 81

Former Internal References:

Parham MS 18

Source of Acquisition:

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_39600]

Publications:

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. 16.

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. 283, 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. 230.

Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum, 1916-1920, London 1933, pp. 80-81.

K. and S. Lake, Dated Greek Minuscule Manuscripts to the Year 1200 (Monumenta Palaeographica Vetera series 1), Boston (Mass.) 1934–1945, II, Manuscripts in Venice, Oxford and London, plates 669-671.

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

D. Papastratos, Paper Icons: Greek Orthodox Religious Engravings 1665-1899, translated by J. Leatham, 2 vols, Athens 1990, II, pp. 467-68 (no. 498).

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:

Ambrosius, Kathegoumenos of Simopetra monastery
Euthalius, of Sulca
Monastery of Simonopetra, Mount Athos, 13th century-
Paul, Saint, of Add MS 39593
Theodoret of Cyrrhus, Bishop of Cyrrhus, c 393-c 466,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121025168,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/77111352

Related Material:

A later lithograph of the line-engraving on ff ii verso - iii recto is now in the British Museum, Department of Prints & Drawings, with the register number 1912,1016.19.