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Detailed record for Egerton 3145
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| Title |
New Testament (Epistles and Revelation) |
| Origin |
Eastern Mediterranean (Constantinople) |
| Date |
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 10th century |
| Language |
Greek |
| Script |
Greek minuscule |
| Decoration |
Headpieces in colours and gold, with foliate forms, and large initials in colours and gold, at the beginning of books (ff. 1, 7, 11, 15, 18v, 20v, 33, 37v, 41, 43, 44, 66v) . Small initials in red and gold. Simple endpieces. Chrysography. |
| Dimensions in mm |
290 x 215 (185 x 110) |
| Official foliation |
ff. 67 ( + 4 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and 5 at the end) |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
BM/BL in-house. Earlier binding kept separately as Egerton 3145 b (18th century). |
| Provenance |
Purchased in Ioannia in 1864 by the Rev. Reginald Barnes for Angela Georgina, Baroness Burdett-Coutts.
Presented by Burdett-Coutts to Sir Roger Cholmely's School, Highgate (Burdett-Coutts MS. II.4).
Purchased by the British Museum with the aid of the Egerton Fund from the Governors of Highgate School, 8 October 1938. |
| Notes |
Additional 28815 and this manuscript once formed a complete New Testament in more than 370 folios, but were divided before the nineteenth century. |
| Select bibliography |
H. I. Bell, 'A Greek New Testament Re-United', British Museum Quarterly, 13 (1938-38), 9-10.
The British Museum Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts 1936-1945, 2 vols (London: British Museum, 1970), I, no. Eg. 3145.
T. S. Pattie, Manuscripts of the Bible: Greek Bibles in the British Library (London: British Library, 1979), p. 31.
Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des neuen Testaments, ed. by Kurt Aland, Arbeiten zur neutestamentlichen Textforschung, 1 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 1994), 699.
John Lowden, catalogue entry no. 147, in Byzantium: Treasures of Byzantine Art and Culture from British Collections, ed. by David Buckton (British Museum: London, 1994). [with additional bibliography]
Summary Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1999- ), I, 280. |
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f. 18v
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f. 41
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