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Gospels in Greek : [manuscript]

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Vol. 1, f. 1 blank; f. 1v. [Miniature of Matthew]. Greek. Vol. 1, ff. 2-4; f. 4v blank. [Chronicle]. Greek. On added leaves, a chronicle, similar in part to that of Hippolytus of Thebes, from the creation to ca. 1250; printed from this manuscript by E. J. Goodspeed, "The Bixby Gospels," University of Chicago Historical and Linguistic Studies in Literature related to the New Testament ser. 1, 2 (1915) 123-52. Transposed in binding, folios 2 and 3. Vol. 1, ff. 5-11; ff. 11v-12 blank. [Menology]. Greek. Menology, 1 Septermber-31 August, but with loss of 2 leaves after f. 6 containing 12 December-22 January. Vol. 1, ff. 13-14. [Gospel readings]. Greek. List of gospel readings for Saturdays and Sundays in Lent. Vol. 1, ff. 14-20. [Synaxarium]. Greek. Vol. 1, ff. 20v-21. [Letter of Eusebius to Carpianus]. Greek. Vol. 1, ff. 21-22v. [Eusebian canon tables]. Greek. Vol. 1, ff. 23-24v. [Κεφάλαια for Matthew]. Greek. Ὑπόθεσις of the gospel of Matthew; printed in H. von Soden, Die Schriften des Neuen Testaments in ihrer ältesten erreichbaren Text gestalt (Göttingen 1913) I:1, p. 314 [120]; Κεφάλαια (68) for Matthew; four verses in honor of Matthew: ματθαίου τοδε ἔρχου . . . βροτὸν αὐτὸν ἐόντα; printed in von Soden, I:1, p. 373, 5; note added in a modern hand, τετραευάγγελον μονῆς τοῦ παντοκράτορος καὶ σωτῆρος χριστνῦ τὸν ἐν τῶ ᾄθω. Test of transliterated Greek: tetraeuángelon monē̃s toũ pantokrátoros kaì sōtē̃ros khristnũ tòn en tō̃ áͅthō Vol. 1, ff. 25-124v. [Gospel of Matthew]. Greek. Gospel of Matthew in 357 sections, with some contemporary and later corrections and marginalia; cf. Goodspeed, p. 128. Vol 1, ff. 125-127v. [Κεφάλαια for Mark]. Greek. Vol. 1, f. 125, ruled, but blank; f. 125v, full page miniature of Mark; f. 126, ruled, but blank; ff. 126v-127v, Κεφάλαια (48) for Mark. Vol. 1, ff. 128-196v. [Gospel of Mark]. Greek. Gospel of Mark in 234 sections, with some contemporary and later corrections and marginalia; collated by Goodspeed. Vol. 2, ff. 2v-5v. [Κεφάλαια for Luke]. Greek. Κεφάλαια (83) for Luke; f. 5, blank; f. 5v, full page miniature of Luke. Vol. 2, ff. 6-118. [Gospel of Luke]. Greek. Gospel of Luke in 340 sections, with some contemporary and later corrections and marginalia; collated by Goodspeed. Vol. 2, ff. 118v-119v. [Κεφάλαια for John]. Greek. Κεφάλαια (18) for John; f. 119: Miniature of John; f. 119v, ruled, but blank. Vol. 2, ff. 120-210v. [Gospel of John]. Greek. Gospel of John in 232 sections, with some contemporary and later corrections and marginalia. On ff. 153-154v, pericope, John 7, 53-8, 11, added in the thirteenth century; collated by Goodspeed.
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Date
[11th century]
Call number
mssHM 1081
Provenance
Written in the eleventh century, for the main body of the text; vol. I, ff. 1-24v added at a later date; place of origin uncertain. Belonged to the monastery of the Pantocrator on Mt. Athos until modern times and may have been alienated during the disturbances of the 1820s. Quaritch Gen. Cat. (1868) n. 1; Gen. Cat. (1875-77) pp. 1139-1140, n. [15597]; Gen. Cat. (1880) n. 6 and Cat. 332 (November 1880) n. 6. Henry White sale, Sotheby's, 21 April 1902, n. 838 to B. F. Stevens for William K. Bixby (1857-1931) of St. Louis, Missouri; acquired by Henry E. Huntington through G. D. Smith in August 1918.
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RESTRICTED. Available with curatorial approval. Requires extended retrieval and delivery time.
Dimensions
165 x 215 mm
Associated people
White, Henry, (1821 or 1822-1900,)
Stevens, Benjamin Franklin, (1833-1902,)
Bixby, William K. (1857-1931,)
Associated organization
Henry E. Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.
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