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Add MS 39610
- Record Id:
- 040-002059231
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002059203
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001215.0x0001a7
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- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 39610
- Title:
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PARHAM MS XXVIII: John Climacus, Scala paradisi (TLG 2907.001) and Liber ad Pastorem (CPG 7853)
- Scope & Content:
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PARHAM MS XXVIII: John Climacus, Scala paradisi (TLG 2907.001) and Liber ad Pastorem (CPG 7853), with additional prefatory material.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
Greek Manuscripts - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002059203
040-002059231 - 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 39610 : PARHAM MS XXVIII: John Climacus, Scala paradisi (TLG 2907.001) and Liber ad Pastorem (CPG 7853) - Contains:
- Add MS 39610, ff 1r-2r : John, Abbot of Raithu, Epistula ad Iohannem Climacum (CPG 7850a).
Add MS 39610, ff 2r-3r : Preface to the Scala Paradisi, with capitula.
Add MS 39610, ff 3v-7r : Daniel of Raithu, Vita Iohannis Climaci (BHG 882).
Add MS 39610, ff 7r-8r : John Climacus, Epistula ad Iohannem Rhaitenum (CPG 7850).
Add MS 39610, ff 94r-206r : John Climacus, Scala paradisi (TLG 2907.001), ff 9r-205v, followed by capitula in reverse order illustrated with a…
Add MS 39610, ff 206v-223r : John Climacus, Liber ad pastorem (CPG 7853).
Add MS 39610, ff 223r-v : Maximus the Confessor, Quaestiones et Dubia 1.1 (TLG 2892.002), f 223r, followed by Quaestiones ad Thalassium 55…
Add MS 39610, ff ii recto-verso : Extract from a Menaion, containing offices for the 4th and 5th December. In two columns, each containing 32…
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- 032-002059203[0028]/040-002059231
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- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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223 folios
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_39610 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 1000
- End Date:
- 1099
- Date Range:
- 11th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Foliation: ff ii + 223.
Dimensions: 225 x 205 mm.
Ruling: 170 x 120 mm, 25 lines per page.
Binding: Blind-tooled leather over birch boards. Writing on the upper edge, which can be seen on Digitised Manuscripts as f iii recto.
Decoration: Illuminated head-pieces and initials. Drawing of the Ladder of Ascent on f 206r.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Eastern Mediterranean.
Provenance:
Monastery of Simonopetra, Mount Athos: ownership inscription, f 223r: Τὸ παρὸν βιβλίον βλίον [sic] προσκὺλωται ἔν τη ἱερα μονὴ τοῦ Σίμονος Πέτρας.
Acquired by Robert Curzon from the Monastery of Simonopetra in 1837: ownership inscription, f i recto.
- Former External References:
- Curzon Greek MS 26
Curzon MS 91 - Former Internal References:
- Parham MS 28
- Source of Acquisition:
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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:
- Complete digital coverage available for this manuscript; see Digitised Manuscripts [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_39610].
- 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. 26.
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum, 1916-1920, London 1933, pp. 91-92.
M. Richard, Inventaire des manuscrits grecs du British Museum I, Fonds Sloane, Additional, Egerton, Cottonian et Stowe, Paris 1952, p. 78.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)