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Burney MS 54

Record Id:

040-002236522

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x00006d

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Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 54

Title:

Collection of liturgical readings, prayers, verses, and tables

Scope & Content:

Collection of liturgical readings, prayers, verses, and tables. Includes the Liturgies of John Chrysostom and Basil of Caesarea.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts
Greek Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002236522

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 54 : Collection of liturgical readings, prayers, verses, and tables

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Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0054]/040-002236522

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

223 folios

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Languages:

Greek, Ancient

Scripts:

Greek

Start Date:

1573

End Date:

1573

Date Range:

19 May 1573

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Paper.

Foliation: ff 223. Four unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and four at the end.

Dimensions: 190 x 125 mm.

Ruling: 150 x 80 mm (ff 2r-53v), 135 x 75mm (ff 54r-157v), 140 x 75 mm (ff 158v-223v). Leroy D 31D1b (ff 54r-157r) and Leroy D 41D1b (ff 161r-179r). 24 lines (ff 2r-53v), 16 lines (ff 54r-157v), 21-24 lines (ff 158v-223v).

Binding: 19th century, brown tooled leather.

Scribe: Σεβαστιανὸς ᾽Αργυρόπουλος (Repertorium 1A, no. 360) (ff 2r-53v, 79v, 147v, 158v-160r, 164r-173v, 180r-185v, 191r-210r, 211r-223v; marginalia ff 54r-79r, 80r-147r, 148r-157v, 161r-163v, 174r-179v, 186r-190r). Dated colophon (f 223r): ἔτει /ζπα μηνὶ μαίω ιθʹ ἰνδ αʹ: ἐν τῇ νέᾳ φωκαίᾳ.

Decoration: 7 diagrams, including the palms of hands relating to the cycles of the sun and the moon, stylised crosses, and geometric shapes (ff 2v, 4r, 5v, 6r, 49r, 49v, 51r). 6 architectural frames of a rounded arch framing a blank space (ff 16v, 18v, 20v, 24v (unfinished), 29v, 36v). Foliate headpieces in colours with birds and plants on gold grounds (ff 54r, 80r). Other foliate, woven, or geometric headpieces (ff 12r, 16r, 18r, 20r, 24r, 117v, 119r, 133v, 148r) in colours. Large zoomorphic initials, usually of birds in blue and red, or blue, red, and green. Large red or brown initials, many of or with foliate forms, some with other colours. Small red or brown initials. Knotted decorative forms.

Custodial History:

Origin: Eastern Mediterranean (Ephesus?)

Provenance:

Written mainly by Sebastianos Argyropoulos, the Metropolites of Ephesus, in 1573: dated, f 223r.

Athanasius, Metropolites of Ephesus: ff 4v, 6v, 7v; his monogram (ff 11v, 201r, 203r), and name (ff 47r, 185v).

Chatze Kyriakou, sceuophylax of Smyrna: his inscription, f 215v.

Crossed out Latin inscription dated 1675 (f 2r).

Joseph Ames (b. 1689, d. 1759), bibliographer and antiquary (book-plate, f 1v): his sale, 5 May 1760, lot 348, possibly bought by Askew with lot 347 for 5s 6d.

? Anthony Askew (bap. 1722, d. 1774), physician and book collector: his sale, 7 March 1785, lot 583.

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 (Ephesus?)

Information About Copies:

Complete digital coverage available for this manuscript; see Digitised Manuscripts [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Burney_MS_54].

Select digital coverage available for this manuscript; see the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, [http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=1664&CollID=18&NStart=54].

Publications:

B. de Montfaucon, Palaeographia graeca, Paris 1708, p. 507.

J. Goar, Euchologion sive Rituale Graecum, Venice 1730.

Catalogue of Manuscripts in the British Museum, New Series Vol. I Part II, The Burney Manuscripts, London 1840, pp. 19-20.

H. Omont, 'Notes sur les manuscrits grecs du British Museum', Bibliothèque de l'École des Chartes 45 (1884) pp. 314-350, 584 (p. 335).

J. Darrouzès, 'Autres manuscrits originaires de Chypre', Revue des études byzantines 15 (1957) pp. 131-168 (p. 150).

E. Gamillscheg and D. Harlfinger, Repertorium der griechischen Kopisten 800-1600, 1: Grossbritannien (Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Byzantinistik 3.1), Vienna 1981, no. 360.

D. I. Polemis, `Συμβολαὶ εἰς τὴν ἱστορίαν τῆς μητροπόλεως ᾽Εφέσου', ᾽Επετηρὶς τῆς ῾Εταιρείας Βυζαντινῶν Σπουδῶν (1981-82) pp. 313-328.

D. I. Polemis, 'Remains of an Acoluthia for the Emperor John Ducas Batatzes', Harvard Ukrainian Studies 7 (1983) pp. 542-47.

The British Library Summary Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts, I, London 1999, pp. 39-41.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Ames, Joseph, FRS; Secretary, Society of Antiquaries, 1689-1759
Arguropoulos, Sebastianos, c 1526-after 1577
Askew, Anthony, physician and book collector, 1722-1774,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000061332085,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/60017882
Kyriakou, Chatze, Sceuophylax of Smyrna