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Burney MS 50/2

Record Id:

041-002236495

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001788.0x000180

LARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100192109973.0x000001

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 50/2

Title:

Apophthegmata Patrum (Collectio alphabetica), volume II of II

Scope & Content:

Apophthegmata patrum (collectio alphabetica) (TLG 2742.001; PG 65.76; CPG 5560). Continuation of the text from Volume I. Included (ff 168r-174v) is a Life of Mark the Athenian, inc. Διηγήσατο ἡμῖν ὁ ἀββᾶς Σεραπίων... ὅτι τεθέαμαι κατ' ὄναρ (BHG³ 1040), and extracts from Palladius's Historia Lausiaca.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts
Greek Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002236491
041-002236495

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts
Burney MS 50 : Apophthegmata Patrum (Collectio alphabetica), in two volumes

Burney MS 50/2 : Apophthegmata Patrum (Collectio alphabetica), volume II of II

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0050]/040-002236491[0004]/041-002236495

Container:

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Record Type (Level):

Item

Extent:

179 folios

Digitised Content:

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Languages:

Greek, Ancient

Scripts:

Greek

Start Date:

1361

End Date:

1362

Date Range:

1361-1362

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Paper.

Foliation: ff 179.

Collation: i-xx⁸ (ff 1-160), the remainder uncertain.

Dimensions: 285 x 200 mm.

Ruling: 205 x 120 mm. Leroy 30D1(?), 29 lines.

Binding: 18th century, gold tooled russian leather.

Scribe (vol. I ff 2r-160v, 163v-165v; vol. II ff 1r-11v, 12v-13r, 15r-24r, 25r-174v, 176r-179r) ᾽Ιωάννης Φιλάγριος (colophon, vol. II f. 179r; inscription vol. I f 2r; Repertorium 1A, no. 187).

Decoration: Brown headpieces with geometric or braided decoration (ff 10v, 19r, 61v, 66v, 70r, 108r, 136r, 137v, 140v, 145r). Simple red headpiece (f 168r). Large and small brown initials, some decorated with foliate forms (two in or with red, ff 102v, 168r). Brown knots.

Custodial History:

Origin: Eastern Mediterranean (Crete).

Provenance:

Mostly written by Ioannes Philagrios in Crete for Georgios of Chandax (colophon, vol. II, f 179r).

Marginal annotations by Neilos Damilas (vol. II, ff 7v-125r, cf. Repertorium 1A, no. 293).

Table of contents (vol. II, ff 174v-175r) and profuse 17th century annotations added throughout.

Emmanouel Kallonas (second half of the 17th century inscription, vol. I, f 1r).

Partial Greek inscription dated 2 March 1681 (vol. I, f 1r).

Richard Mead (b. 1673, d. 1754), physician and collector of books and art: bequeathed to Askew.

Anthony Askew (bap. 1722, d. 1774), physician and book collector: his sale, 7 March 1785, lot 566, bought by Hayes.

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 (Crete).

Information About Copies:

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Publications:

Catalogue of Manuscripts in the British Museum, New Series Vol. I Part II, The Burney Manuscripts, London 1840, pp. 15-18.

H. Omont, 'Notes sur les manuscrits grecs du British Museum', Bibliothèque de l'École des Chartes 35 (1884) pp. 314-350, 584 (p. 341).

Palaeographical Society, Facsimiles of Manuscripts and Inscriptions, Series I and II, ed. E. A. Bond, E. M. Thompson and G. F. Warner, London 1873-1901, I, pl. 207.

E. M. Thompson, An Introduction to Greek and Latin Palaeography, Oxford 1912, p. 263 (facs.).

C. Van de Vorst and H. Delehaye, Catalogus codicum hagiographicorum Graec-orum Germaniae, Belgii, Angliae (Subsidia Hagiographica 13), Brussels 1913, pp. 260-261.

C. Butler, The Lausiac History of Palladius (Texts and Studies, ed. S. A. Robinson, 6), Cambridge 1904, II, p. xv, no. 26.

J. C. Guy, Recherches sur la tradition grecque des Apophthegmata Patrum (Subsidia Hagiographica 36), Brussels 1962, pp. 221-230.

A. Turyn, Dated Greek Manuscripts of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries in the Libraries of Italy, Urbana 1972, pp. 253-54.

G. Papazoglou, ᾽Ιωσὴφ Φιλάγριος ἢ Φιλαργης, Thessalonica 1978, passim.

A. Turyn, Dated Greek Manuscripts of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries in the Libraries of Great Britain, Dumbarton Oaks 1980, pp. 128-129, pls 85, 86, 120b, 120c.

E. Gamillscheg and D. Harlfinger, Repertorium der griechischen Kopisten 800-1600, 1: Grossbritannien (Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Byzantinistik 3.1), 3 vols, Vienna 1981.

The British Library Summary Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts, I, London 1999, p. 37.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)