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Burney MS 20
- Record Id:
- 040-002236345
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002236305
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x00004b
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Burney MS 20
- Title:
- Four Gospels
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
ff. 3r-6r: Canon tables.
ff. 7r-88v: Gospel of Matthew.
ff. 88v-90r: table of capitula.
ff. 91r-141r: Gospel of Mark.
ff. 141r-142r: table of capitula.
ff. 143r-224v: Gospel of Luke.
ff. 224v-226r: table of capitula.
ff. 227r-287v: Gospel of John.
f. 288r: table of capitula.
f. 288r-v: colophon.
ff. 290r-317r: Synaxarion or table of lessons.
Decoration:
4 Evangelists portraits in colours and gold: St Matthew (f. 6v), St Mark (f. 90v), St Luke (f. 142v), St John (f. 226v).
4 Headpieces in colours and gold, including foliage, flowers and birds (ff. 7r, 91r, 143r, 227r).
8 Tailpieces, pen-drawn knotwork with red wash (ff. 88v, 90r, 141r, 224v, 287v, 288r, 288v), pen-drawn vine (f. 142r).
4 Decorated initials in colours and gold (ff. 7r, 91r, 143r, 227r).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Burney Manuscripts
Greek Manuscripts - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002236305
040-002236345 - Is part of:
- Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts
Burney MS 20 : Four Gospels - Contains:
- Add MS 20, ff 6v-90r : Gospel of Matthew, ff 7r-88v, preceded by an illuminated portrait of St Matthew, f 6v, and followed by a table of capitula,…
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- 032-002236305[0020]/040-002236345
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Burney_MS_20 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 1285
- End Date:
- 1285
- Date Range:
- 30 May 1285
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Foliation: ff. 317.
Dimensions: 190 x 155 (140 x 90) mm.
Ruling: Leroy 40D1, 22-24 lines.
Binding: British Museum binding of half brown leather, 1964.
Scribe: (ff 3r-288v) Θεόφιλος ἱερομόναχος (Repertorium I 138).
- Custodial History:
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Originally dated 30 May 1285: colophon, f 288v. Date altered much later to 985.
Erased Greek ownership inscription, f 7r.
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:
- Greg.-Aland 482
Scrivener evan. 570
von Soden ε 329 - Publications:
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Catalogue of Manuscripts in the British Museum, New Series Vol. I Part II, The Burney Manuscripts, London 1840, p. 4.
F. H. A. Scrivener, A Full and Exact Collation of about Twenty Greek Manuscripts of the Holy Gospels (Hitherto Unexamined), Cambridge 1853, pp. xlix-li.
H. Omont, 'Notes sur les manuscrits grecs du British Museum', Bibliothèque de l'École des Chartes 45 (1884) pp. 314-350, p. 350.
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, vol. 1 p. 257.
H. von Soden, Die Schriften des Neuen Testaments in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Textgestalt hergestellt auf Grund ihrer Textgeschichte, 4 vols, Berlin 1902-1913, vol. 1 p. 175.
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 pp.3 24, 546 no. 326, pl. 326.
A. Turyn, Dated Greek Manuscripts of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries in the Libraries of Great Britain, Dumbarton Oaks 1980, pp. 42-44, pls 26, 103b.
J. H. Lowden, 'Two Byzantine Manuscripts dated 1285: B.L., Burney MS. 20 and Laur. Plut. 6.28', unpublished M.A. Report, Courtauld Institute, London 1977.
The Christian Orient, British Library exhibition catalogue, London 1978, no. 11.
E. Gamillscheg and D. Harlfinger, Repertorium der griechischen Kopisten 800-1600, 1: Grossbritannien (Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Byzantinistik 3.1), 3 vols, Vienna 1981, p. 138.
I. Spatharakis, Corpus of Dated Illuminated Greek Manuscripts to the Year 1453, (Byzantina Neerlandica 8), 2 vols, Leiden 1981, p. 53, no. 195.
Byzantium. Treasures of Byzantine Art and Culture, British Museum exhibition catalogue, ed. D. Buckton, London 1994, no. 207.
K. Aland, Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des neuen Testaments (Arbeiten zur neutestamentlichen Textforschung 1), Berlin 1994, p. 76
The British Library Summary Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts, I, London 1999, p. 29.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)