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Burney MS 19
- Record Id:
- 040-002236344
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002236305
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x00004a
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Burney MS 19
- Title:
- Four Gospels (Gregory-Aland 481; Scrivener evan. 569; von Soden ε 1017)
- Scope & Content:
- Four Gospels (Gregory-Aland 481; Scrivener evan. 569; von Soden ε 1017).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Burney Manuscripts
Greek Manuscripts - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002236305
040-002236344 - Is part of:
- Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts
Burney MS 19 : Four Gospels (Gregory-Aland 481; Scrivener evan. 569; von Soden ε 1017) - Contains:
- Burney MS 19, ff 63v-101r : Gospel of Mark, ff 64r-101r, preceded by an illuminated portrait of St Mark, f 63v.
Burney MS 19, ff 101v-164r : Gospel of Luke, ff 102r-164r, preceded by an illuminated portrait of St Luke, f 101v.
Burney MS 19, ff 165r-211r : Gospel of John, ff 166r-210r, preceded by an illuminated portrait of St John the Evangelist and his scribe Prochorus,…
Burney MS 19, ff 1r-63r : Gospel of Matthew, ff 2r-63r, preceded by an ownership inscription of the Monastery of San Lorenzo, f 1r, and an…
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- 032-002236305[0019]/040-002236344
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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211 folios
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Burney_MS_19 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0950
- End Date:
- 1199
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 10th century-12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Foliation: ff ii + 211. (ff i and 214 are paper flyleaves; ff ii and 211-213 are parchment flyleaves; other leaves not foliated, e.g., 164*, 165*). Old foliation ff 2-218. Old ff 65 and 104, which bear the offset of the headpieces on ff 64, 102, are now unfoliated and placed at the end of the volume before f 211. Old f 97, which is now before f 96, also bears the offset of the headpiece on f 102.
Dimensions: 220 x 170 (145 x 105) mm.
Ruling: Four types: Leroy C 54D1gpq (ff 3-8); 64D1gpq (ff 10-33); C 54D1pq (ff 34-133, 192-210); C 44D1q (2, 9, 134-191). 22 lines.
Binding: British Museum half brown leather binding, 1913.
Decoration: Illuminated evangelist portraits added in the 2nd quarter of the 12th century (ff 1v, 63v, 101v, 165r), attributed to the Kokkinobaphos Master (Buckton 1994). Illuminated headpieces and initials (ff 2r, 64r, 102r, 166r). The illuminations of Matthew (f 1v) and John (f 165r) were inserted on additional leaves, while the illuminations of Mark (63v) and Luke (101v) were painted on original pages which had been left blank in the 10th century.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Eastern Mediterranean (Constantinople).
Provenance:
Long erased inscription, f 210r.
Kokkinobaphos Master, added the miniatures in the 2nd quarter of the 12th century: Buckton 1994.
? Comnenus family: An inscription on the (now-lost) first folio (old foliation f 1) lists a number of members of the dynasty, ending with two members of the family that : transcribed in Bianchini 1749, p. 529: Yaphet filius Noe, ejusque posteri per rectam semper ac legitimam lineam descendendo, post diluvium habitaverunt quemdam Graeciae montem difficilem profecto ac inaccessibilem Zumarram dictitatum, ubi liberam penitus Rempublicam erexere, superiorem alium non recognoscentes nisi Deum. Hanc antiquam prioremque libertatem adhuc conservant, ex qua Zumarre Republica originem traxerunt Comneni principes, qui per multos annos Constantinopolitanum Imperium tenuerunt, & ab Isacio primo Comneno Constantinopolitano Imperatore alii plerique in Imperium successere, ac Macedonico regno potiti sunt, descendendo semper de patre in filium legitimum usque ad ultimum Constantinum Comnenum, qui tandem a Maumeth Turcharum Rege ab his regnis pulsus, in Italia obiit, Aranito filio unico relicto superstite. Anno Domini millesimo quingentesimo quinquagesimo [1550].
Biblioteca Vallicelliana, Rome, owned in 1749, where it was held as Vallicelliana MS F. 90: described and reproduced in Bianchini 1749, see further Moretti 2004 and 2008.
Monastery of San Lorenzo, El Escorial: Spanish owenrship inscription dated 1809, f 1r, possibly a fiction created by a book dealer. On the basis of this inscription, Andrés 1968 believed the manuscript was possibly purchased by B. Arias Montano in the Low Countries in 1572, but this is incompatible with the evidence of Bianchini. Pace Andrés, the present volume is not that mentioned as recently on sale in London in Haenel, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum (1830) p. 922, which is now New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, MS M.639.
Owned by 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.
- Former External References:
- Vallicelliana MS F. 90
- Administrative Context:
- 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_19].Select digital coverage available for this manuscript; see the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, [http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=8097&CollID=18&NStart=19].
- Publications:
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G. Bianchini, Evangeliarum quadruplex latinae versionis antiquae seu veteris italicae, 2 vols, Rome 1749, I, pp. 263, 474, 526, 529-30, II, pp. 308, 468.
G. Haenel, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum qui in bibliothecis Galliae, Helvetiae, Belgii, Britanniae M., Hispaniae, Lusitaniae asservantur, Leipzig 1830, p. 922.
Catalogue of Manuscripts in the British Museum, New Series Vol. I Part II, The Burney Manuscripts, London 1840, p. 4, pl. I.
F. H. Scrivener, A Full and Exact Collation of about Twenty Greek Manuscripts of the Holy Gospels (hitherto unexamined), Cambridge 1853, pp. xlviii-xlix (this manuscript as 'o').
W. de Gray Birch and H. Jenner, Early Drawings and Illuminations: An Introduction to the Study of Illustrated Manuscripts, London 1879, p. 1.
H. Omont, 'Notes sur les manuscrits grecs du British Museum', Bibliothèque de l'École des Chartes 45 (1884) pp. 314-350, p. 326.
F. H. A. Scrivener, A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament for the Use of Biblical Students, 2 vols, 4th edn, London 1894, I, p. 257.
Facsimiles of Biblical Manuscripts in the British Museum, ed. by F. G. Kenyon, London 1900, pl. vi.
H. von Soden, Die Schriften des Neuen Testaments in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Textgestalt hergestellt auf Grund ihrer Textgeschichte, 4 vols, Berlin 1902-1913, I, p. 133.
O. Dalton, Byzantine Art and Archaeology, Oxford 1911, p. 476 fig. 429.
J. A. Herbert, Illuminated Manuscripts, London 1911, p. 64, pl. IV.
G. Swarzenski, Die Salzburger Malerei, 2 vols, Leipzig 1913, I, p. 54 n. 1.
J. Bradley, Illuminated Manuscripts, 2nd edn, London 1920, no. 8.
British Museum: Reproductions from Illuminated Manuscripts, Series 2, 3rd edn, London 1923, pl. 1.
Illuminataed Manuscripts and Bindings of Manuscripts Exhibited in The Grenville Library, Guide to the Exhibited Manuscripts, 3, Oxford 1923, no. 1.
G. F. Warner, Reproductions from Illuminated Manuscripts, Series 2, 3rd edn, London 1923, pl. 1.
Byzantium: An Introduction to East Roman Civilization, ed. by N. H. Baynes and H. Moss, Oxford 1948, pl. 31.
W. H. P. Hatch, Facsimiles and Descriptions of Minuscule Manuscripts of the New Testament, Cambridge (Mass.) 1951, pl. xxiv.
J. Beckwith, The Art of Constantinople: An Introduction to Byzantine Art 330-1453, London 1961, pp. 128, 132-33, fig. 170.
Byzantine Art, A European Art, catalogue of the ninth exhibition held under the auspices of the Council of Europe at the Zappeion Exhibition Hall, Athens 1964, No.314 (incl. further bibliography).
C. Delvoye, L'Art byzantin, Arthaud 1967, fig. 143.
V. Lazarev, Storia della pittura bizantina, Turin 1967, p. 192.
G. de Andres, Catálogo de los códices Griegos desaparecidos de la Real Biblioteca de El Escorial, El Escorial 1968, p. 33, no. 52.
G. Matthiae, Studi bizantini, L'Aquila 1970, p. 62.
The Christian Orient, British Library exhibition catalogue, London 1978, no. 7.
S. J. Voicu and S. D’Alisera, I. MA. G. E. S.: index in manuscriptorum graecorum edita specimina, Rome 1981, p. 373.
Renaissance Painting in Manuscripts: Treasure from the British Library, ed. by T. Kren, New York 1983, p. 141 n. 15.
J. C. Anderson, 'The illustrated sermons of James the Monk: their dates, order, and place in the history of Byzantine art', Viator 22 (1991) pp. 69-120.
Byzantium. Treasures of Byzantine Art and Culture, British Museum exhibition catalogue, ed. D. Buckton, London 1994, pp. 160-161, no. 176.
K. Aland, Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des neuen Testaments (Arbeiten zur neutestamentlichen Textforschung 1), Berlin 1994, p. 76.
J. C. Anderson, 'A Twelfth-Century Leaf from the Byzantine Courtly Circle in the Freer Gallery of Art (Freer 33.12)', Gesta 35 (1996) pp. 142-148, pp 146, 148 n. 11.
M. P. Brown, The British Library Guide to Writing and Scripts, London 1998, p. 37, pl. 31.
The British Library Summary Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts Vol I, London 1999, p. 29.
S. Moretti, 'La miniatura medieval nel seicento e nel settento: fra erudizione, filologia e storia dell'arte', Rivista di Storia della Miniatura 12 (2008), pp. 137-48 (pp. 142-43).
S. McKendrick and K. Doyle, Bible Manuscripts, London 2007, p. 86, no. 73.
S. Moretti, 'Vulgo "Miniatura" appelatur: i manoscritti greci miniati e decorate della biblioteche pubbliche statali di Roma', Nuovi annali della Scuola speciale per archivisti e bibliotecari 18 (2004), pp. 61-97 (p. 77).
M. Takiguchi, 'Some Greek Gospel Manuscripts in the British Library: Examples of the Byzantine Book as Holy Receptacle and Bearer of Hidden Meaning', Electronic British Library Journal (2011) art. 13, pp. 1-15 (pp. 5-11).
- Exhibitions:
- Gold, British Library, London, 20 May 2022 - 2 October 2022
Greek Manuscripts, (online), 18 September 2016- - Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)