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Add MS 39611
- Record Id:
- 040-002059232
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002059203
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001215.0x0001a8
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 39611
- Title:
- PARHAM MS XXIX: Heirmologion
- Scope & Content:
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PARHAM MS XXIX: Heirmologion, with musical notation, arranged according to ἤχοι or modes. Four quires, containing the first ἤχος and the first ἤχος πλάγιος, are lost.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
Greek Manuscripts - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002059203
040-002059232 - 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 39611 : PARHAM MS XXIX: Heirmologion - Hierarchy:
- 032-002059203[0029]/040-002059232
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 39583-39671
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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111 folios
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_39611 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 1600
- End Date:
- 1699
- Date Range:
- 17th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper.
Foliation: ff i + 111. f i is a paste-down on the inside front cover. Two unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and two at the end.
Dimensions: 150 x 100 mm.
Ruling: 95 x 65 mm, 20 lines per page.
Binding: Modern, brown leather.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Eastern Mediterranean (?Sinai).
Provenance:
Manuscript loaned by Agathangelus, protosyncellus of the Monastery of St Catherine on Mount Sinai to Michael Manoli, Epitropus of the Sinai monks at Suez, in 1820: ownership inscription, f 1v: τὸ παρὸν εἰρμολόγειον εἴναι ἀπὸ τὴν βιβληωθήκην τοῦ ἁγίου καὶ θεοβαδίστου ὄρους Σινᾶ· ἀπὸ τὴν βιβληωθείκην τὴς παναγίας τὴν λεγομένην του δεσπότη· καὶ στέλνετε δι αδείας τῆς ϊερᾶς συνάξεως εἰς τὸν ἑν σουβείσυ ἐπιτροπών μας, κὺρ Μιχαῆλ Μανόλη καὶ ὤσον τοῦ εἴναι ἀναγγέων να τὸ ἔχει εἰς χρίσην ἑδικήν του ας τὸ ἔχει· καὶ μεταῦτα νὰ τὸ στύλνη πάλαι εἰς τὸ μοναστήριον δίχος να μένη εἰς δεύτερον πρόσοπον: 1820. νοεμβρίου. 24 -ὄρος Σινᾶ Ἀγαθάγγελος πρωτοσύγγελος δικ(ανικὸς?) καὶ ἡ σύναξις τῶν πατέρων.
Presented to Robert Curzon by the Vice-Consul at Suez in 1834: ownership inscription, f i recto.
- Former External References:
- Curzon Greek Paper MS 1
Curzon MS 92 - Former Internal References:
- Parham MS 29
- 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 (?Sinai).
- Information About Copies:
- Complete digital coverage available for this manuscript; see Digitised Manuscripts [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_39611].
- 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. 1.
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum, 1916-1920, London 1933, p. 92.
M. Richard, Inventaire des manuscrits grecs du British Museum I, Fonds Sloane, Additional, Egerton, Cottonian et Stowe, Paris 1952, pp. 78-79.
H. J. W. Tillyard, 'A Byzantine Manuscript in the British Museum', Classica et Mediaevalia, 17 (1956), pp. 135-138.
E. S. Giannopoulos, Τὰ χειρόγραφα Βυζαντινῆς μουσικῆς-Ἀγγλία. Περιγραφικός κατάλογος τῶν χειρογράφων Ψαλτικῆς Τέχνης τῶν ἀποκειμένων στὶς βιβλιοθῆκες τοῦ Ἡνωμένου Βασιλείου [Ἱερὰ Σύνοδος τῆς Ἐκκλησίας τῆς Ἑλλάδος-Ἵδρυμα Βυζαντινῆς Μουσικολογίας, Σειρά "Κατάλογοι"], Athens 2008, pp. 95-96.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)