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Burney MS 21
- Record Id:
- 040-002236349
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002236305
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x00004c
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100189893844.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Burney MS 21
- Title:
- Four Gospels (Gregory-Aland 484; Scrivener evan. 571; von Soden ε 322), adapted for liturgical use
- Scope & Content:
- Four Gospels (Gregory-Aland 484; Scrivener evan. 571; von Soden ε 322), adapted for liturgical use.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Burney Manuscripts
Greek Manuscripts - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002236305
040-002236349 - Is part of:
- Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts
Burney MS 21 : Four Gospels (Gregory-Aland 484; Scrivener evan. 571; von Soden ε 322), adapted for liturgical use - Contains:
- Burney MS 21, ff 1r-6r : Synaxarion or table of lessons, beginning at Easter.
Burney MS 21, ff 9r-74r : Gospel of Matthew, preceded by hypothesis and capitula.
Burney MS 21, ff 252v-258r : Synaxarion or table of lessons, beginning at 1 Sept.
Burney MS 21, ff 74v-119r : Gospel of Mark, preceded by hypothesis and capitula.
Burney MS 21, ff 119v-194v : Gospel of Luke, preceded by hypothesis and capitula.
Burney MS 21, ff 195r-252r : Gospel of John, preceded by hypothesis and capitula.
Click here to View / search full list of parts of Burney MS 21 - Hierarchy:
- 032-002236305[0021]/040-002236349
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
261 folios
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100189893844.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 1291
- End Date:
- 1292
- Date Range:
- 1291-1292
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Letter of introduction required to view this manuscript.
- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper (bomb.).
Foliation: ff 261. Two unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and three at the end.
Dimensions: 340 x 240 mm.
Ruling: 231 x 157 mm, 24 lines per page, Leroy D 44D1.
Binding: 19th century, half brown leather, British Museum.
Scribe: Θεόδωρος ῾Αγιοπετρίτης, Repertorium 1A, no. 127.
Decoration: Illuminated headpieces and initials (ff 9r, 76r, 121r, 197r).
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Eastern Mediterranean (Thessalonica).
Provenance:
Written by the scribe Θεόδωρος ῾Αγιοπετρίτης for the monk Gerasimos, grand sceuophylax of the monastery τοῦ Φιλοκάλου in Thessalonica: inscription (f 258r).
The monk Dositheos, son of the grammaticus Demetrios of Thessalonica, presented by him to the archon Alexios: 14th century note (f 8v).
Giovanni Saibante, of Verona, owned in first half of the 18th century, bequeathed by him to Giulio Saibante: Jeffreys (1977).
Charles Burney (b. 1757, d. 1817), D. D., classical scholar, possibly acquired together with Burney 105, another Saibante manuscript.
Acquired by the British Museum as part of Burney’s library from his son Charles Parr Burney in 1818.
- Administrative Context:
- Eastern Mediterranean (Thessalonica).
- Information About Copies:
- Complete digital coverage available for this manuscript; see Digitised Manuscripts [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Burney_MS_21].Select digital coverage available for this manuscript; see the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, [http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=7306&CollID=18&NStart=21].
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Manuscripts in the British Museum, New Series Vol. I Part II, The Burney Manuscripts, London 1840, pp. 4-5, 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. li-liv.
H. Omont, 'Notes sur les manuscrits grecs du British Museum', Bibliothèque de l'École des Chartes 45 (1884) pp. 314-350, 584 (pp. 344, 349).
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.
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. 175.
E. M. Jeffreys, 'The Greek Manuscripts of the Saibante Collection', Studia Codicologica, ed. K. Treu (Texte und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der altchristlichen Literatur 124), Berlin 1977, pp. 249-62 (pp. 251-52, no. 1).
A. Turyn, Dated Greek Manuscripts of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries in the Libraries of Great Britain, Dumbarton Oaks 1980 pp. 60-62, pls 43, 107a.
I. Spatharakis, Corpus of Dated Illuminated Greek Manuscripts to the Year 1453, (Byzantina Neerlandica 8), 2 vols, Leiden 1981, p. 54, no. 202.
E. Gamillscheg and D. Harlfinger, Repertorium der griechischen Kopisten 800-1600, 1: Grossbritannien (Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Byzantinistik 3.1), 3 vols, Vienna 1981.
S. J. Voicu and S. D’Alisera, I. MA. G. E. S.: index in manuscriptorum graecorum edita specimina, Rome 1981, p. 374.
R. S. Nelson, Theodore Hagiopetrites, a Late Byzantine Scribe and Illuminator, Vienna 1991, pp. 17-144 passim (esp. pp. 131-132), pls 11-15.
E. Gamillscheg, 'Subskriptionen griechsicher Handschriften als historische Quelle', in Symbolae Berolinenses für Dieter Harlfinger, ed. F. Berger, Amsterdam 1993, pp. 293-306 (p. 299).
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. 30.
- Exhibitions:
- Greek Manuscripts, (online), 18 September 2016-
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)