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Add MS 39613
- Record Id:
- 040-002059234
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002059203
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001215.0x0001aa
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 39613
- Title:
- PARHAM MS XXXI: John Chrysostom, Divine Liturgy, in Latin and Greek
- Scope & Content:
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PARHAM MS XXXI: John Chrysostom, Divine Liturgy, in a Latin translation, ff 2r-29v, followed by the Greek original, ff 30r-59r. The Latin text differs from that in printed editions.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
Greek Manuscripts - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002059203
040-002059234 - 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 39613 : PARHAM MS XXXI: John Chrysostom, Divine Liturgy, in Latin and Greek - Hierarchy:
- 032-002059203[0031]/040-002059234
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 39583-39671
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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59 folios
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_39613 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
Latin - Scripts:
- Greek
Latin - Start Date:
- 1497
- End Date:
- 1511
- Date Range:
- c 1502-c 1506
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper (Watermark similar to Briquet 9730 (Troyes 1502) and 9731 (Paris 1504))
Foliation: ff ii + 59. ff i and ii are former paste-downs now bound as loose leaves. One additional unfoliated flyleaf at the beginning and two at the end. Two unfoliated leaves between ff 29 and f 30.
Dimensions: 205 x 140 mm.
Ruling: 140 x 85 mm, 18 lines per page (the ruling is the same for both the Latin and the Greek text).
Binding: 16th century. Light brown leather, blind-tooled, the panel formed by fillets alternating with four rows of impressions of a stamp of interlaced arcs of lattice work, five dots within the interlacement. The border is formed of lozenges enclosing roses. Brass clasps (one broken). Gilt and gauffred edges. The boards are from 16th century printed books: a Latin grammar with examples in French, a Latin servicebook, and another book in French.
Decoration: Illuminated initials (ff 2r, 30r) and border (f 2r) of late French style.
Scribe: Γεώργιος Ἑρμώνυμος, Repertorium 1A, no. 61 (Greek text, ff 30r-59r).
- Custodial History:
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Origin: France (Paris?)
Provenance:
Likely created in France, probably Paris, between 1502-1506: Jacob (1976) pp. 298-99.
Johannes Le Besgue, of Beauvais, Chancellor of Rheims University in 1570, owned in 1561: ownership inscription (f 2r, see also f ii recto).
Pierre Dozet, Chancellor of Rheims University, owned in the 17th century: ownership inscription (f 2r).
Jacobus Brehier, Canon of Rheims, owned in the 17th century: ownership inscription (f ii recto).
- Former External References:
- Curzon Greek Paper MS 3
Curzon MS 94 - Former Internal References:
- Parham MS 31
- 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:
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France (Paris?)
- Information About Copies:
- Complete digital coverage available for this manuscript; see Digitised Manuscripts [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_39613].
- 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. 26, no. 3.
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum, 1916-1920, London 1933, p. 93.
M. Richard, Inventaire des manuscrits grecs du British Museum I, Fonds Sloane, Additional, Egerton, Cottonian et Stowe, Paris 1952, p. 79.
A. Jacob, 'L'édition "érasmienne" de la liturgie de saint Jean Chrysostome et ses sources', Italia medioevale e umanistica 19 (1976) pp. 291–324.
E. Gamillscheg and D. Harlfinger, Repertorium der griechischen Kopisten 800-1600, 1: Grossbritannien (Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Byzantinistik 3.1), 3 vols, Vienna 1981.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Brehier, Jacobus, Canon of Rheims
Dozet, Pierre, chancellor of Rheims University and canon of Rheims Cathedral, fl 1666-1669
Hermonumos, Georgios, fl 2nd half of the 15th century
John Chrysostom, Saint, Archbishop of Constantinople, c 347-407,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000456059482,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/305214868
Le Besgue, Johannes, of Beauvais; Chancellor of Rheims University 1570