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Add MS 39602
- Record Id:
- 040-002059223
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002059203
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001215.0x00019f
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- ISAD(G)
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- Add MS 39602
- Title:
- PARHAM MS XX. Gospel lectionary (Greg.-Aland l 181; Scrivener evst. 234)
- Scope & Content:
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PARHAM MS XX. Gospel lectionary (Greg.-Aland l 181; Scrivener evst. 234).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
Greek Manuscripts - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002059203
040-002059223 - 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 39602 : PARHAM MS XX. Gospel lectionary (Greg.-Aland l 181; Scrivener evst. 234) - Contains:
- Add MS 39602, ff 1r-41v : Lection Readings from Easter to the Saturday after Pentecost.
Add MS 39602, ff 41v-61r : Gospel Lections from Sunday after Pentecost to the Greek New Year. Sabbatokuriaka, i.e. Gospels for Saturdays and…
Add MS 39602, ff 61r-111r : New Year to Maundy Thursday. Sabbatokuriaka for the earlier part, and daily Gospels in Holy Week, with those…
Add MS 39602, ff 111r-143v : Gospels of the Passion, Gospels of the Good Friday Hours, Gospel εἰς τὴν λειτουργίαν for Good…
Add MS 39602, ff 143v-215r : Gospels for the Menologion.
Add MS 39602, ff 215r-217r : Gospels for various special services, beginning with two ἀναγνώσματα εἰς ἐγκένια (sic)…
Add MS 39602, ff 217r-221r : Εύαγγἐλια τοῦ ὄρθρου τὸν δεσποτικόν ἕορτον σὺν στιχοῖς…
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- 032-002059203[0020]/040-002059223
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- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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221 folios
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0980
- End Date:
- 1052
- Date Range:
- 980-1052
- Era:
- CE
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Foliation: ff iv + 221 + iv. ff 139-142 have been misplaced in binding: the true order is 138, 140, 139, 142, 141, 143.
Dimensions: 375 x 290 mm.
Ruling: 240 x 65 mm, written in two columns, 22 lines per column.
Binding: Bound in red velvet with a clasp, the front cover studded with five gilt buckles, of post-medieval workmanship.
Decoration: Decorated head-pieces and initials in red and blue, headings and neumes in red. A number of the initials are of zoomorphic or anthropomorphic form, e.g. O in the form of a fish (ff 6r, 138v, 157v), and E with a human hand for a cross-bar (ff 1r, 7v).
Scribe: Νίκων, Repertorium 1A, no. 332, though the name could possibly be Νικόλαος (Evangelatou-Notara) or Νικήτας (Richard). Corrections made by a later hand, possibly the Μιχαὴλ of f 221r.
- Custodial History:
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Written at Ciscissa in Cappadocia for the bishop Stephanos in 980: f 220v.
Revised by Michael, a notary, at Ciscissa in 1049: f 221r.
Additional ownership inscription dated 1052, f 221r.
There is a note apparently in Georgian on f1r.
Owned by the monastery of Caracalla on Mount Athos, where it was acquired by Robert Curzon in 1837: Scrivener, Codex Augiensis p. 51.
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.
- 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, pp. 23-24, no. 18.
F. H. A. Scrivener, Contributions to the Criticism of the Greek New Testament, being the Introduction to an Edition of the Codex Augiensis and Fifty Other Manuscripts, Cambridge 1859, pp. 50-53.
F. H. A. Scrivener, A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, vol. 1, London 1894, pp. 343-34
C. R. Gregory, Textkritik des Neuen Testaments, 3 vols, Leipzig 1900-1909, p. 402.
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum, 1916-1920, London 1933, pp. 82-83.
K. and S. Lake, Dated Greek Minuscule Manuscripts to the Year 1200 (Monumenta Palaeographica Vetera series 1), Boston (Mass.) 1934–1945, plates 669-671.
M. Richard, Inventaire des manuscrits grecs du British Museum I, Fonds Sloane, Additional, Egerton, Cottonian et Stowe, Paris 1952, p. 76.
E. Gamillscheg and D. Harlfinger, Repertorium der griechischen Kopisten 800-1600, 1: Grossbritannien (Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Byzantinistik 3.1), 3 vols, Vienna 1981, no. 332.
I. Spatharakis, Corpus of Dated Illuminated Greek Manuscripts to the Year 1453, (Byzantina Neerlandica 8), 2 vols, Leiden 1981, p. 14, no. 21.
F. Evangelatou-Notara, Σημειώματα Ἑλληνικῶν Κωδίκων ὡς Πηγὴ διὰ τὴν Ἔρευναν τοῦ Οικονομικοῦ καὶ Κοινωνικοῦ Βίου τοῦ Βυζαντίου ἀπὸ τοῦ 9ου Αἰῶνος μέχρι τοῦ Ἔτους 1204, Athens 1982, pp. 8, 19, 25, 68-69, 88-89, 118, 135, 158-159.
K. Aland, Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des neuen Testaments (Arbeiten zur neutestamentlichen Textforschung 1), Berlin 1994, p. 79.
K. Weitzmann, Die byzantinische Buchmalerei des 9 und 10 Jahrhunderts (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch-Historische Klasse Denkschriften 243), revised edn Vienna 1996, p. 65. - Exhibitions:
- Greek Manuscripts, (online), 18 September 2016-
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)