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Detailed record for Arundel 536
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| Part 1 |
ff. 1-217v |
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| Title |
Gospel lectionary |
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| Origin |
Eastern Mediterranean |
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| Date |
Last quarter of the 12th century or 1st quarter of the 13th century |
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| Language |
Greek |
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| Script |
Greek miniscule |
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| Decoration |
Decorated foliate heapieces in red, often with a yellow wash, one extending into the margin (f. 1), one with an animal head (f. 213). Large decorated initials, in red and yellow, or red, black, and yellow, some zoomorphic or anthropomorphic (birds or hands) (ff. 23v, 24v, 29v, 189). Animals in the margins (fish, ff. 168v, 169v; snake, 184v). Large and small red initials, some with penwork decoration and yellow highlights. Some text highlighted in yellow. |
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| Dimensions in mm |
235 x 150 (180 x 105) |
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| Part 2 |
ff. i-iii |
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| Title |
Extracts from the following Gospel lectionary |
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| Origin |
Eastern Mediterranean |
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| Date |
15th century |
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| Language |
Greek |
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| Script |
Greek minuscule |
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| Decoration |
Small decorated initials in black ink. Knot in black ink. |
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| Dimensions in mm |
235 x 150 (Various) |
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| Official foliation |
ff. iii + 217 (ff. i-iii are paper, + unfoliated modern paper flyleaves) |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
BM/BL in-house. Rebound in 1897. |
| Provenance |
ff. 172-173 are replacements in a later hand.
? 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. 2).
Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in 1831. |
| Notes |
Ecphonetic notation in red. |
| Select bibliography |
Edward Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae, 3 vols (Oxford: Sheldonian, 1697), III, no. 3442.
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, pp. 163-64.
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), evst. 256.
Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des neuen Testaments, ed. by Kurt Aland, Arbeiten zur neutestamentlichen Textforschung, 1 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 1994), l 187.
Summary Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1999- ), I, 18-19. |
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Part 1
ff. 1-217v |
| Gospel lectionary |
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f. 24v
Zoomorphic initial |
f. 169v
Marginal fish |
f. 170
Headpiece |
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