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Add MS 39617

Record Id:

040-002059238

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002059203

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001215.0x0001ae

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ISAD(G)

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Add MS 39617

Title:

PARHAM MS XXXV: Demosthenes, Orationes, with the hypotheses of Libanius, and occasional scholia and interlinear glosses

Scope & Content:

PARHAM MS XXXV: Demosthenes, Orationes, with the hypotheses of Libanius, and occasional scholia and interlinear glosses.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Additional Manuscripts
Greek Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002059203
040-002059238

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 39617 : PARHAM MS XXXV: Demosthenes, Orationes, with the hypotheses of Libanius, and occasional scholia and interlinear glosses

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Hierarchy:

032-002059203[0035]/040-002059238

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

258 folios

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Languages:

Greek, Ancient

Scripts:

Greek

Start Date:

1400

End Date:

1499

Date Range:

15th century

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Paper.

Foliation: ff i + 258. One unfoliated modern paper flyleaf at the beginning and two at the end.

Dimensions: 285 x 205 mm.

Ruling: 195 x 120 mm, 33 lines per page.

Binding: Half brown, 20th century.

Custodial History:

Origin: Greece (Mount Athos?).

Provenance:

Owned by the Karakalou Monastery, Mount Athos.

Acquired by Robert Curzon from the Karakalou Monastery in 1837: ownership inscription, f i recto.

Former External References:

Curzon Greek Paper MS 7
Curzon MS 98

Former Internal References:

Parham MS 35

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:

Greece (Mount Athos?).

Information About Copies:

Complete digital coverage available for this manuscript; see Digitised Manuscripts [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_39617].

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. 26, no. 7.

Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum, 1916-1920, London 1933, p. 94.

M. Richard, Inventaire des manuscrits grecs du British Museum I, Fonds Sloane, Additional, Egerton, Cottonian et Stowe, Paris 1952, pp. 79-80.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Demosthenes, statesman and orator, 384 BC-322 BC
Monastery of Caracallou, Athos, Mount