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Add MS 5111/1
- Record Id:
- 040-003389548
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002227712
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100051251248.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100174686602.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 5111/1
- Title:
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The Golden Canon Tables (TM 7151)
- Scope & Content:
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The Canon Tables formed part of Add MS 5111 as ff. 10-11 of the same manuscript but are now housed in a separate volume.
f. 10r Eusebius: Letter to Carpinianus on the Use of Biblical Canons (CPG 3465), only the end of the text is preserved.
f. 10v. Canon Tables with fragment of Canon 1
ff. 11r: Canon Tables with fragments of Canon 8; 9; 10(Matthew); 10(Mark)
f. 11v: Canon Tables with fragments of Canon 10(Luke); 10(John)
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
Greek Manuscripts - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002227712
040-003389548 - Is part of:
- Add MS 5111-5112 : Four Gospels (Gregory-Aland 438; Scrivener evan. 438; von Soden ε 241), in two volumes
Add MS 5111/1 : The Golden Canon Tables (TM 7151) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002227712[0006]/040-003389548
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 5111-5112
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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2 folios
- Digitised Content:
- https://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100174686602.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Greek, Ancient
- Scripts:
- Greek
- Start Date:
- 0500
- End Date:
- 0699
- Date Range:
- 6th-7th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
- Restrictions to access apply please consult British Library staff
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- User Conditions:
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Letter of introduction required to view this manuscript.
- Physical Characteristics:
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- Material: Stained gold parchment.
- Foliation: ff 10-11
- Dimensions: 220 x 150 mm.
- Binding: Housed in a separate volume.
- Decoration: Stained gold background with arches and columns filled with brightly coloured abstract ornamentation. Below each of the four extant arches, there is a medallion with a bust portrait (imago clipeata) painted in classical style,, three of which have halos, probably representing the Apostles.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Eastern Mediterranean (Constantinople?)
Provenance: Acquired at the Monastery of Simonopetra in Mount Athos by Antonios Trifillis and later by Anthony Askew (1722-1774). Purchased at Askew's sale, 15 March 1785, lot 622.
- Former Internal References:
- Add MS 5111
- Information About Copies:
- Full digital coverage is available for this item: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_5111/1
- Publications:
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- H. Shaw und F. Maddaii, Illuminated Ornaments, London 1833, Nr. 1.
- E. M. Thompson and G. F. Warner, Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts in the British Museum, Part I, Greek Manuscripts , London 1881, p. 21 and pl. XI.
- H. Omont, 'Notes sur les manuscrits grecs du British Museum', Bibliothèque de l'École des Chartes , 45 (1884), 339 (p. 28 in the offprint, which is paginated 1-40).
- F. H. A. Scrivener, A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament , 2 vols, 4th edn, London 1894, vol. 1, p. 239.
- A. Haseloff, Codex purpureus Rossanensis, Berlin-Leipzig 1898, S. 44—45.
- C. R. Gregory, Textkritik des Neuen Testaments , 3 vols, Leipzig 1900-1909, vol. 1, p. 190.
- Hermann 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. 156.
- J. Strzygowski, Amida, Heidelberg 1911, p. 203.
- O. M. Dalton, East Christian Art, Oxford 1925, p. 314, Table. LIV.
- H. Gerstinger, Die griechische Buchmalerei, Wien 1926, p. 25.
- C. Nordenfalk, Die spätantiken Kanontafeln , Göteborg 1938, pp. 127-146
- Kitzinger, Ernst. Early Medieval Art. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1940, pgs. 115-116.
- M. Richard, Inventaire des manuscrits grecs du British Museum I, Fonds Sloane, Additional, Egerton, Cottonian et Stowe, Paris 1952, p. 3.
- Weitzmann, K. Late Antique and Early Christian Book Illumination London, 1977, p. 116.
- The Christian Orient. London: The British Library, 1978, no. 2.
- K. Weitzmann, (ed.), Age of spirituality : Late Antique and Early Christian Art, third to seventh century, 1979, New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, no. 441, ,
- Splendeur de Byzance. Europalia 82 Hellas-Grèce. Brussels: Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, 1982, no.M3.
- Nordenfalk, C. 'The Eusebian Canon-Tables: Some Textual Problems', The Journal of Theological Studies, 35, 1984, p. 96.
- Buckton, D., ed. Byzantium. Treasures of Byzantine Art and Culture from British Collections London: British Museum, 1994, no. 68.
- J. Lowden, “The beginnings of Biblical Illustration,” in: John W. Williams (ed.)., Imaging the early Medieval Bible, University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999, pp. 9–59 (pp. 24-26).
- M.P. Brown, In the beginning. Bibles before the year 1000, London: Smithsonian Books, 2006, p. 232-233
- S. McKendrick and K. Doyle, Bible Manuscripts (London: British Library, 2007), pp. 14-15 , fig. 1-2.
- S. McKendrick and K. Doyle, The Art of the Bible: Illuminated Manuscripts form the Medieval World, London: Thames and Hudson / british Library, 2017, 30-35. n. 1.
- Exhibitions:
- Gold, British Library, London, 20 May 2022 - 2 October 2022
Sacred, British Library, April 2007 - October 2007 - Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)