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Add MS 39604
- Record Id:
- 040-002059225
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002059203
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001215.0x0001a1
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 39604
- Title:
- PARHAM MS XXII: Gospel Lectionary (Gregory-Aland l 344; Scrivener evst. 236), with notes in Arabic
- Scope & Content:
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PARHAM MS XXII: Gospel Lectionary (Gregory-Aland l 344; Scrivener evst. 236), with notes of lessons and names of months in Arabic.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
Greek Manuscripts - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002059203
040-002059225 - 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 39604 : PARHAM MS XXII: Gospel Lectionary (Gregory-Aland l 344; Scrivener evst. 236), with notes in Arabic - Contains:
- Add MS 39604, ff 1r-40r : Gospel lections from Easter to Pentecost, with a special heading for Ascension Day on f 30v. The right (blank) half of f.…
Add MS 39604, ff 41r-82v : Gospel lections from Pentecost to the 11th Sunday after Pentecost. The beginning is missing, owing to the loss of a leaf.
Add MS 39604, ff 83r-104r : Gospel lections from Monday of the 1st week of Mark to the end of the year, concluding with the lesson τῆς…
Add MS 39604, ff 105r-156r : Gospel lections from the New Year to Quinquagesima Sunday). Daily lessons to the 12th Sunday (= 11th Sunday,…
Add MS 39604, ff 156r-235v : Gospel lections for the παννυχίδες of the first week of Lent, followed by lections from the First Saturday…
Add MS 39604, ff 236r-296r : Gospels for the Menologion.
Add MS 39604, ff 296r-301v : Eothina, followed by εὐαγγέλια ἀναγιγνωσκόμενα εἰς διαφόρους μνήμας…
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- 032-002059203[0022]/040-002059225
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- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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301 folios
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_39604 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Arabic
Greek, Ancient - Scripts:
- Arabic
Greek - Start Date:
- 1100
- End Date:
- 1399
- Date Range:
- 12th century-14th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Foliation: ff iii + 301. f i is the paste-down on the inside front cover. One unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning (after f ii) and one at the end.
Dimensions: 330 x 240 mm.
Ruling: 220 x 70 mm, written in two columns, 22 lines per column.
Binding: 16th-17th century, of wooden boards covered with black leather, St. Andrew's cross in panel, blind-tooled, with a leather clasp. An image of the fore-edge, including the clasp, can be seen on Digitised Manuscripts as f v recto.
Decoration: Illuminated headpieces and initials. Neums in red, headings and rubrics in gold.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Eastern Mediterranean.
Provenance:
Owned by the Monastery of St. John the Baptist, near the River Jordan, in the ?14th century: ownership inscription (f 1 recto).
Owned by the Church of the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem, in the ?14th century: ownership inscription (f 45v).
Owned by the Monastery of St. Sabba, near Jerusalem.
Acquired by Robert Curzon from the Monastery of St. Sabba in 1834 for 20 pieces of gold: inscription (inside upper cover)
- Former External References:
- Curzon Greek MS 20
Curzon MS 85 - Former Internal References:
- Parham MS 22
- Source of Acquisition:
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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:
- Eastern Mediterranean.
- Information About Copies:
- Complete digital coverage available for this manuscript; see Digitised Manuscripts [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_39604].
- 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, p. 25, no. 20.
F. H. A. Scrivener, A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, 2 vols, 4th edn, London 1894, vol. 1, p. 344.
C. R. Gregory, Textkritik des Neuen Testamentes, 3 vols, Leipzig 1900-1909, vol. 1, p. 417.
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum, 1916-1920, London 1933, pp. 85-86.
M. Richard, Inventaire des manuscrits grecs du British Museum I, Fonds Sloane, Additional, Egerton, Cottonian et Stowe, Paris 1952, p. 17.
K. Aland, Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des neuen Testaments (Arbeiten zur neutestamentlichen Textforschung 1), Berlin 1994, p. 239.
- Exhibitions:
- Greek Manuscripts, (online), 18 September 2016-
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)