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Detailed record for Arundel 524
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| ff. 1-6 |
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| Author |
Eusebius of Caesarea |
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Letter to Carpianus and canon tables |
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| ff. 6v-200 |
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Four Gospels, each preceded by a table of capitula |
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| ff. 200-218 |
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Eclogadin ton d'evangeliston |
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| Origin |
Eastern Mediterranean |
| Date |
11th century |
| Language |
Greek |
| Script |
Greek minuscule |
| Decoration |
Canon tables in red decorated with coloured foliate and geometric patterns, some also with gold (ff. 1v-6). Frame in red ink (f. 1). 4 large headpieces in gold and colours with foliate decoration (ff. 8, 64, 99, 157) at the beginning of each Gospel. Simple headpieces and endpieces in red and sometimes brown. Large decorated initials in blue and red at the beginning of each Gospel. Small simple initials in red. |
| Dimensions in mm |
170 x 130 (130 x 85) |
| Official foliation |
ff. 218 (+ unfoliated modern paper flyleaves) |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
BM/BL in-house. Rebound in 1929; marbled endpapers. |
| Provenance |
? Thomas Howard (b. 1585, d. 1646), 2nd earl of Arundel, 4th earl of Surrey, and 1st earl of Norfolk, art collector and politician.
Henry Howard (b. 1628, d. 1684), 6th duke of Norfolk, presented to the Royal Society in 1667.
The Royal Society, London (its ink stamp: 'Soc. Reg. Lond. / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis', f. 1).
Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in 1831. |
| Notes |
ff. 200-218 ruled for two columns but written in one. |
| Select bibliography |
Edward Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae, 3 vols (Oxford: Sheldonian, 1697), III, no. 3431.
Catalogue of Manuscripts in The British Museum, New Series, 1 vol. in 2 parts (London: The British Museum, 1834-1840), I, part I: The Arundel Manuscripts, p. 155.
Frederick Henry Scrivener, A Full and Exact Collation of about Twenty Greek Manuscripts of the Holy Gospels (hitherto unexamined) (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1853) pp. xxxviii-xxxix (as 'h').
Frederick Henry A. Scrivener, A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament for the Use of Biblical Students, 2 vols, 4th edn (London: Bell & Sons, 1894), evan. 566.
H. von Soden, Die Schriften des Neuen Testaments in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Textgestalt hergestellt auf Grund ihrer Textgeschichte, 4 vols (Berlin, 1902-1913), e 1126.
Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des neuen Testaments, ed. by Kurt Aland, Arbeiten zur neutestamentlichen Textforschung, 1 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 1994), min. 476.
Summary Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts, (London: The British Library, 1999- ), I, 8. |
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ff. 1-6 |
| Eusebius of Caesarea Letter to Carpianus and canon tables |
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ff. 4v-5
Illuminated canon tables |
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ff. 6v-200 |
| Four Gospels, each preceded by a table of capitula |
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f. 157
Illuminated headpiece and decorated initial |
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