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Detailed record for Burney 23
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| ff. 2-19 |
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Synaxarion, or table of lessons, beginning at Easter |
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| ff. 22-230 |
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Four Gospels, adapted for liturgical use, imperfect |
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| f. 20v |
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| Author |
Eusebius of Caesarea |
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Letter to Carpianus |
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| Origin |
Eastern Mediterranean |
| Date |
12th century |
| Language |
Greek |
| Script |
Greek minuscule |
| Decoration |
Headpieces with foliate decoration with a reddish-brown wash and large initials made up of foliate or zoomorphic forms at the beginning of each Gospel (ff. 22, 99, 149, 207), each preceded by capitula in red. Simple red endpieces. Small red initials outside of the margin. |
| Dimensions in mm |
195 x 145 (125 x 90) |
| Official foliation |
ff. iii + 234 (ff. i-iii, 1, and 231-34 are paper flyleaves) |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
Post-1600. Brown polished calf, typical of Burney bindings; rebacked in 1962. |
| Provenance |
Erased Greek inscription, f. 22.
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. |
| Select bibliography |
Catalogue of Manuscripts in The British Museum, New Series, 1 vol. in 2 parts (London: British Museum, 1834-1840 ), I, part II: The Burney Manuscripts (1840), p. 5.
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. liv-lv (as ‘s’).
Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des neuen Testaments, ed. by Kurt Aland, Arbeiten zur neutestamentlichen Textforschung, 1 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 1994), min. 485.
Summary Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts, (London: The British Library, 1999- ), I, 30-31. |
| Last revised: 05 February 2005 |
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ff. 22-230 |
| Four Gospels, adapted for liturgical use, imperfect |
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f. 22
Decorated headpiece and initial |
f. 22
Detail |
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