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Detailed record for Harley 5582
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| Title |
Psalter with hymns: Psalms 1-150 (ff. 1-209v), Psalm 151 (f. 210-210v), Odes (ff. 211-235v),Triadika (ff. 236-238v), Photagogika (f. 238v). |
| Origin |
Eastern Mediterranean |
| Date |
1st half of the 14th century |
| Language |
Greek |
| Script |
Greek minuscule |
| Scribe |
Sophonias |
| Decoration |
Headpiece in red and green with foliate motifs on an added leaf (f. 1). 2 headpieces in red ink (ff. 104, 211). Large initials in red. Rubrics in red. |
| Dimensions in mm |
250 x 165 (175 x 120) |
| Official foliation |
ff. 238 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 3 at the end) |
| Form |
Paper codex |
| Binding |
BM/BL in-house. Rebound in 1960. Greek title on the fore-edge. |
| Provenance |
Written in the 14th century by the monk Sophonias for the hieromonk Ioseph of Syria: see inscription (f. 235v).
The Harley Collection, formed by Robert Harley (b. 1661, d. 1724), 1st earl of Oxford and Mortimer, politician, and Edward Harley (b. 1689, d. 1741), 2nd earl of Oxford and Mortimer, book collector and patron of the arts.
Edward Harley bequeathed the library to his widow, Henrietta, née Cavendish Holles (b. 1694, d. 1755) during her lifetime and thereafter to their daughter, Margaret Cavendish Bentinck (b. 1715, d. 1785), duchess of Portland; the manuscripts were sold by the Countess and the Duchess in 1753 to the nation for £10,000 (a fraction of their contemporary value) under the Act of Parliament that also established the British Museum; the Harley manuscripts form one of the foundation collections of the British Library. |
| Notes |
Added leaf with text in a later hand (f. 1).
f. 8 has been torn and restored.
Running titles in iambic verse. |
| Select bibliography |
A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, 4 vols (London: Eyre and Strahan, 1808-12), III (1808), no. 5582.
Henri Omont, ‘Notes sur les manuscrits grecs du British Museum’, Bibliothèque de l’École des Chartes, 45 (1884), 314-50 (p. 348).
Repertorium der griechischen Kopisten 800-1600, ed. by Ernst Gamillscheg and Dieter Harlfinger, Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für Byzantinistik, 3-1, ed. by Herbert Hunger (Vienna: Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1981- ), I: Handschriften aus Bibliotheken Grossbritanniens, 3 vols, no. 364.
Phlorentias Euangelatou-Notara, ‘Semeiomata’ Hellenikon Kodikon hos Pege dia ten Ereunan tou Oikonomikou kai Koinonikou Biou tou Byzantiou apo tou 9ou Aionos mechri tou Etous 1204, Bibliotheke Sophias N. Saripolou, 47 (Athens: Ethnikon kai Kapodistriakon Panepisthmion Athenon, 1982), pp. 61, 225.
Summary Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1999- ), I, 120. |
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