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Record Id:

040-002059226

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002059203

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Add MS 39605

Title:

PARHAM MS XXIII: Sermons on the Gospels of John and Matthew, possibly by Metrophanes of Smyrna

Scope & Content:

PARHAM MS XXIII: Sermons on the Gospels of John and Matthew, by the author of the Theognosia (formerly attributed to Gregory of Nyssa), possibly Metrophanes of Smyrna, according to Van Deun 2008. Edited and published by Hansmann 1930.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Additional Manuscripts
Greek Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002059203
040-002059226

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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 39605 : PARHAM MS XXIII: Sermons on the Gospels of John and Matthew, possibly by Metrophanes of Smyrna

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

151 folios

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Languages:

Greek, Ancient

Scripts:

Greek

Start Date:

0900

End Date:

0940

Date Range:

Early 10th century

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment.

Foliation: ff 151 + ii. i is the inside upper cover, and ii is a modern paper flyleaf at the front with a note by Curzon. One unfoliated modern paper flyleaf at the end.

Dimensions: 375 x 260 mm.

Ruling: 275 x 155, 28 lines per page.

Binding: Red velvet, 19th century.

Script: Written by five different hands.

Decoration: Ornamental pen-and-ink head-piece on f 1 recto.

Custodial History:

Origin: Eastern Mediterranean.

Provenance:

Owned by the Karakalou Monastery on Mount Athos: f ii recto.

Acquired by Robert Curzon from the Karakalou Monastery in 1837.

Former External References:

Curzon Greek MS 21
Curzon MS 86

Former Internal References:

Parham MS 23

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:

Eastern Mediterranean.

Information About Copies:

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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. 25, no. 21.

H. I. Bell, 'Sermons by the Author of the Theognosia, attributed to Gregory of Nyssa', Journal of Theological Studies 26 (1925) pp. 364-373.

K. Hansmann, Ein neuentdeckter Kommentar zum Johannes Evangelium Untersuchungen und Text, Paderborn 1930.

Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum, 1916-1920, London 1933, pp. 86-89.

M. Richard, Inventaire des manuscrits grecs du British Museum I, Fonds Sloane, Additional, Egerton, Cottonian et Stowe, Paris 1952, p. 77.

P. Van Deun, 'La chasse aux trésors: la découverte de plusieurs oeuvres inconnues de Métrophane de Smyrne (IXe - Xe siècle)', Byzantion 78 (2008) pp. 346-367.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Gregory, Saint, of Nyssa, c 335-c 394
Metrophanes, Metropolitan of Smyrna, 9th century
Monastery of Caracallou, Athos, Mount