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Burney MS 22
- Record Id:
- 040-002236353
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002236305
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x00004d
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100189894377.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Burney MS 22
- Title:
- Gospel Lectionary (Gregory-Aland l 184; Scrivener evst. 259)
- Scope & Content:
- Gospel Lectionary (Gregory-Aland l 184; Scrivener evst. 259).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Burney Manuscripts
Greek Manuscripts - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002236305
040-002236353 - Is part of:
- Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts
Burney MS 22 : Gospel Lectionary (Gregory-Aland l 184; Scrivener evst. 259) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002236305[0022]/040-002236353
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
248 folios
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100189894377.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 1319
- End Date:
- 1319
- Date Range:
- 27 Jan 1319
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Letter of introduction required to view this manuscript.
- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Foliation: ff 248. Three unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and two at the end.
Dimensions: 298 x 215 mm.
Ruling: 220/230 x 140/150 mm, 2 columns, 27-29 lines per column.
Binding: 18th century binding of diced russian leather.
Decoration: Mutilated illuminated headpiece (f 1).
The manuscript has been damaged by water.
- Custodial History:
-
Origin: Eastern Mediterranean (Cyprus).
Provenance:
Written on Cyprus in 1319: inscription, f 248v.
Charles-Geneviève-Louis-Auguste-André Timothée d’Éon de Beaumont (b. 1728, d. 1810), chevalier d’Éon: ownership inscription (f 1r). Offered for sale at the first d'Éon sale, Christie's, 5 May 1791, lot 6 (5th cat.) and again at the third, Christie's, 12 Feb. 1813, lot 15, when possibly bought by Burney.
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.
- Administrative Context:
- Eastern Mediterranean (Cyprus).
- Information About Copies:
- Complete digital coverage available for this manuscript; see Digitised Manuscripts [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Burney_MS_22].Select digital coverage available for this manuscript; see the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, [http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=6687&CollID=18&NStart=22].
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Manuscripts in the British Museum, New Series Vol. I Part II, The Burney Manuscripts, London 1840, p. 5, pl. I.
F. H. A. Scrivener, A Full and Exact Collation of about Twenty Greek Manuscripts of the Holy Gospels (Hitherto Unexamined), Cambridge 1853, pp. lxi-lxiii.
H. Omont, 'Notes sur les manuscrits grecs du British Museum', Bibliothèque de l'École des Chartes 45 (1884) pp. 314-350, 584 (p. 326).
C. R. Gregory, Textkritik des neuen Testamentes, 3 vols, Leipzig 1900-1909, vol. 1, p. 402.
A. Turyn, Dated Greek Manuscripts of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries in the Libraries of Great Britain, Dumbarton Oaks 1980, pp. 82-83, pls 56, 112a.
C. N. Constantinides and R. Browning, Dated Greek Manuscripts from Cyprus to the Year 1570, Washington 1993, pp. 148-151 No.29, pls 43, 184b.
K. Aland, Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des neuen Testaments (Arbeiten zur neutestamentlichen Textforschung 1), Berlin 1994, p. 230.
The British Library Summary Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts, I, London 1999, p. 30.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)