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Detailed record for Arundel 543
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| Author |
John Chrysostom |
| Title |
Homilies on Matthew , imperfect |
| Origin |
Eastern Mediterranean |
| Date |
11th century |
| Language |
Greek |
| Script |
Greek minuscule |
| Decoration |
3 pink foliate headpieces and large decorated pink initials (ff. 138v, 180v, and 187v) added in the 13th century as replacement folios. Original simple brown headpieces, and small simple pink or brown initials. |
| Dimensions in mm |
355 x 255 (230/260 x 165) |
| Official foliation |
ff. 336 (+ unfoliated modern paper flyleaves) |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
BM/BL in-house. Rebound in 1962. |
| 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. 9; its bookplate, inside upper cover).
Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society of London together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in 1831. |
| Notes |
ff. 1, 8, 137-138, and 180-187 are replacements in a 13th- (?) century hand. |
| Select bibliography |
Edward Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae, 3 vols (Oxford: Sheldonian, 1697), III, no. 3448 or 3450.
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. 166.
Patrologiae Cursus completus, Series Graeca, ed by Jacques-Paul Migne, 161 vols (Paris, 1857-1866), LVII, p. vi (this manuscript as 'F').
Marcel Aubineau, Codices Chrysostomici Graeci (Paris: CNRS, 1968- ), I: Codices Britianniae et Hiberniae, no. 46.
Summary Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1999- ), I, 22. |
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f. 138v
Decorated headpiece and initial |
f. 204
Decorated headpiece and initial |
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