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Burney MS 18
- Record Id:
- 040-002236340
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002236305
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x000049
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100189893625.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Burney MS 18
- Title:
- Four Gospels and Hebrews (Gregory-Aland 480; Scrivener evan. 568; von Soden δ 462), adapted for liturgical use, imperfect, followed by Synaxarion and Menologion
- Scope & Content:
- Four Gospels and Hebrews (Gregory-Aland 480; Scrivener evan. 568; von Soden δ 462), adapted for liturgical use, imperfect, followed by Synaxarion and Menologion.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Burney Manuscripts
Greek Manuscripts - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002236305
040-002236340 - Is part of:
- Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts
Burney MS 18 : Four Gospels and Hebrews (Gregory-Aland 480; Scrivener evan. 568; von Soden δ 462), adapted for liturgical use, imperfect, followed… - Contains:
- Burney MS 18, ff 1r-61r : Gospel of Matthew, ff 3r-61r, preceded by capitula, ff 1r-2r.
Burney MS 18, ff 213r-217v : Synaxarion. Table of lessons beginning at Easter.
Burney MS 18, ff 218r-222v : Menologion. Table of lessons beginning at 1 September.
Burney MS 18, ff 61v-98v : Gospel of Mark, ff 63r-98v, preceded by capitula, ff 61v-62r.
Burney MS 18, ff 99r-162r : Gospel of Luke, ff 101r-162r, preceded by capitula, ff 99r-100v.
Burney MS 18, ff 162v-209r : Gospel of John, ff 163r-209r, preceded by capitula, f 162v.
Burney MS 18, ff 210r-212r : Hebrews 12:17-13:25.
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- 032-002236305[0018]/040-002236340
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
222 folios
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100189893625.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 1366
- End Date:
- 1366
- Date Range:
- 4 Jun 1366
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Foliation: ff 222. Two unfoliated paper flyleaves and one parchment flyleaf (a former pastedown) at the beginning, two parchment flyleaves (the second a former pastedown) and two paper flyleaves at the end. Folios without text are not foliated.
Dimensions: 330 x 235 mm.
Ruling: 205 x 135 mm, 23 lines per page, Leroy D 32D1.
Binding: Blue velvet over wooden boards with embroidered Greek spine title, brass corner pieces and two gold plaquettes of the Adoration of the Shepherds and the Adoration of the Magi set into the upper and lower boards, respectively, dating from the last quarter of the 16th century and probably Milanese or North European imitating a Milanese style, see Hill (1912), p. 201.
Scribe: ᾽Ιωάσαφ of the monastery of the Theotokos τῶν ῾Οδηγῶν in Constantinople, Repertorium 1A, no. 208.
Decoration: Headpieces decorated in colours and foliate patterns on gold grounds at the beginning of each Gospel (ff 3r, 63r, 101r, 163r). Titles, initials and capitula in gold.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Eastern Mediterranean (Constantinople).
Provenance:
Written by Ioasaph of the monastery of the Theotokos ton Hodegon in Constantinople, 4 June 1366: colophon (f 222v).
James Edwards, London bookseller (b. 1757, d. 1816): his sale, 5 April 1815, lot 821, purchased by Burney for £210.
Charles Burney (b. 1757, d. 1817), D.D., classical scholar.
Acquired by the British Museum as part of Burney’s library from his son Charles Parr Burney in 1818.
- Administrative Context:
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Eastern Mediterranean (Constantinople).
- Information About Copies:
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Complete digital coverage available for this manuscript; see Digitised Manuscripts [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Burney_MS_18].
Select digital coverage available for this manuscript; see the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, [http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=6974&CollID=18&NStart=18].
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Manuscripts in the British Museum, New Series Vol. I Part II, The Burney Manuscripts, London 1840, pp. 3-4, pl.II.
F. H. A. Scrivener, A Full and Exact Collation of about Twenty Greek Manuscripts of the Holy Gospels (Hitherto Unexamined), Cambridge 1853, pp. xlvi-xlviii (cod. n).
F. H. A. Scrivener, Contributions to the criticism of the Greek New Testament, being the introduction to an edition of the Codex Augiensis and fifty other manuscripts, Cambridge 1859, pp. 63-64.
H. Omont, 'Notes sur les manuscrits grecs du British Museum', Bibliothèque de l'École des Chartes 45 (1884) pp. 314-350, 584 (pp. 343, 584).
F. H. A. Scrivener, A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, 2 vols, 4th edn, London 1894, vol. 1, pp. 256-57.
C. R. Gregory, Textkritik des neuen Testamentes, 3 vols, Leipzig 1900-1909, vol. 1, p. 194.
H. von Soden, Die Schriften des neuen Testaments,in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Textgestalt hergestellt auf Grund ihrer Textgeschichte, 4 vols, Berlin 1902-1910, vol. 1, p. 114.
New Palaeographical Society, Facsimiles of Ancient Manuscripts, etc., Series I and II, ed. E. M. Thompson and others, London 1903-1932, I, 180.
L. Politis, 'Eine Schreiberschule im Kloster ton Hodegon', Byzantinische Zeitschrift 51 (1958) pp. 17-36, 261-287, pls I-III, XIII-XVIII.
H. Buchthal, 'Toward a History of Palaeologan Illumination', in The Place of Book Illumination in Byzantine Art, Princeton 1975, p. 165, p. 168 fig.31.
A. Turyn, Dated Greek Manuscripts of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries in the Libraries of Great Britain, Dumbarton Oaks 1980, pp. 131-134, pls 89, 90, 122b.
I. Spatharakis, Corpus of Dated Illuminated Manuscripts to the Year 1453, Leiden 1981, No. 265.
E. Gamillscheg and D. Harlfinger, Repertorium der griechischen Kopisten 800-1600, 1: Grossbritannien (Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Byzantinistik 3.1), 3 vols, Vienna 1981.
I. Spatharakis, Corpus of Dated Illuminated Greek Manuscripts to the Year 1453, (Byzantina Neerlandica 8), 2 vols, Leiden 1981, p. 65, no. 265.
K. Aland, Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des neuen Testaments (Arbeiten zur neutestamentlichen Textforschung 1), Berlin 1994, p. 75.
The British Library Summary Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts, I, London 1999, p. 28.
I. Pérez Martin, 'El "estilo hogedos" y su proyección en las escrituras constantinopolitanas', Segno e Testo 6 (2008), pp. 389-458.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)