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Add MS 39619
- Record Id:
- 040-002059240
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002059203
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001215.0x0001b0
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100161509258.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 39619
- Title:
- Rhetorical Miscellany
- Scope & Content:
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- ff. 1-2v: blank with pen trials and ownership inscriptions
- ff. 3-22: Aphthonius: Progymnasmata
- ff. 22v-23v: blank
- ff. 24-100v: Collection of Byzantine Progymnasmata. Inc. Mῦθος λογικός. Bασιλεύς τις μάχην ἔχων. Expl. τὰς τῶν ἀρετῶν τελειότητας ἀνατρέχοντες
- ff. 101-115v: Select Letters by Anastasius Gordius. Cf. the full corpus in Karanasios - Kolia (2011), manuscript not mentioned.
- ff. 116-121v: Demetrius of Phaleron: Epistolikoi Typoi (as published by Weichert (1910, pp. 1-12).
- ff. 122-123: Distinctions of the elements and health (Διάγνωσις στοιχείων περὶ φυλακῆς ὑγείας)
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
Greek Manuscripts - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002059203
040-002059240 - 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 39619 : Rhetorical Miscellany - Hierarchy:
- 032-002059203[0037]/040-002059240
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 39583-39671
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Paper codex.
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_39619 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
Greek, Modern - Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 1712
- End Date:
- 1712
- Date Range:
- 1712
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper.
Foliation: ff i + 123. f i is a paper flyleaf at the beginning. In addition, there is one unfoliated paper flyleaf at the beginning and two at the end, and unfoliated blank leaves after f 22, f 100 (2 leaves), and f 115.
Dimensions: 205 x 145 mm.
Binding: Modern, blind-tooled.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Eastern Mediterranean. Written in 1712: date (11 December 1712) written by the scribe on f 3r.
Owned by Joachim, hieromonk from Karpenisi, in the 18th century: ownership inscription, f 1r, Ἰωακεὶμ ἱερομονάχου τοῦ ἐκ κωμοπόλεως Καρπενησίου.
Owned by Macarius, Archimandrite of Arta, in the 18th century: ownership inscription, f 3r, καὶ τόδε Μακαρίου ἀρχιμανδρίτου τοῦ διδασκαλου Ἄρτης.
Owned by Paisius of Apameia in the 18th century: ownership inscription, f 2v, καὶ τόδε Παισίου τοῦ Ἀπαμέιας μαγισταιου(?) Πάη(?).
Acquired by Robert Curzon in Therapia: ownership inscription, f i verso.
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.
- Former External References:
- Curzon Greek Paper MS 9
Curzon MS 100 - Former Internal References:
- Parham MS 37
- 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. 9.
V. Weichert (ed.), Demetrii et Libanii qui feruntur Typoi epistolikoi et Epistolimaioi charaktēres, (Leipzig: Teubner 1910.), manuscript not mentioned.
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum, 1916-1920, London 1933, pp. 95-96.
M. Richard, Inventaire des manuscrits grecs du British Museum I, Fonds Sloane, Additional, Egerton, Cottonian et Stowe, Paris 1952, p. 80.
Ἀναστάσιος Γόρδιος, Ἀλληλογραφία (1675-1728) edd. C. Karanasios and I. Kolia, 2 vols, Athens 2011.
Digitisation has been made possible thanks to the generous support of the Hellenic Foundation.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)