Dated Greek Manuscripts of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries in the Libraries of Italy
Author: Alexander Turyn
Publisher:
Published: 1972
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780252000836
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Dated Greek Manuscripts of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries in the Libraries of Great Britain
Author: Alexander Turyn
Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProfessor Turyn has published books on Greek manuscripts in the Vatican Library, and here he examines book scripts and subscriptions from the dated Greek manuscripts in the libraries of Great Britain. These to-scale facsimile reproductions, one hundred ninety-eight in total, provide ample paleographical material that will help in dating other manuscripts. The author presents the chronological evidence and extensively interprets the prosopographical and linguistic elements of the manuscripts. At the same time he elucidates the origins of a manuscript, its character as a document of Byzantine culture, and its role in the transmission of ancient and medieval Greek literature.
Manuscripts of the Greek Bible
Author: Bruce M. Metzger
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1981-09-17
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9780195365320
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfter a thorough survey of the fundamentals of Greek palaeograpy, the author discusses many of the distinctive features of biblical manuscripts, such as musical neumes, lectionaries, glosses, commentaries and illuminations.
A Bibliography of Greek New Testament Manuscripts
Author: James Keith Elliott
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000-05-25
Total Pages: 317
ISBN-13: 0521770122
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book, first published in 2000, is the main bibliographical listing of Greek New Testament manuscripts.
Handbook of Medieval Studies
Author: Albrecht Classen
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2010-11-29
Total Pages: 2822
ISBN-13: 3110215586
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis interdisciplinary handbook provides extensive information about research in medieval studies and its most important results over the last decades. The handbook is a reference work which enables the readers to quickly and purposely gain insight into the important research discussions and to inform themselves about the current status of research in the field. The handbook consists of four parts. The first, large section offers articles on all of the main disciplines and discussions of the field. The second section presents articles on the key concepts of modern medieval studies and the debates therein. The third section is a lexicon of the most important text genres of the Middle Ages. The fourth section provides an international bio-bibliographical lexicon of the most prominent medievalists in all disciplines. A comprehensive bibliography rounds off the compendium. The result is a reference work which exhaustively documents the current status of research in medieval studies and brings the disciplines and experts of the field together.
Niketas Choniates
Author: Alicia Simpson
Publisher: La Pomme d'or
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9548446057
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Manuscript Tradition of Procopius' Gothic Wars
Author: Maria Kalli
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2011-11-30
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 3110955121
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Introduction, which gives information about the life and work of Procopius and also about previous editions and studies of the text, is followed by Chapter 1 which contains an analytical codicological and palaeological description of codex Ath, which was written in the late 13th century and is thus the earliest extant ms of Procopius' Wars. Section 2 examines the position of the codex in the stemma codicum, proposed by the latest editor of the text, Jacob Haury, Procopius Caesariensis Opera Omnia (Teubner: Leipzig, 1905-12, revised by G.Wirth, 1963). A collation of the text with the principal manuscripts (K and L) of the two families, z and y, shows that Ath belongs to the y family. A further collation of Ath with all other extant manuscripts of this family of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, illustrates the importance of Ath in the tradition of the text, despite its minor phonetic, grammatical, syntactical and linguistic errors. Section 3 gives a description and updated information of all manuscripts of family y, which were briefly described by previous editors, and some of them were not examined at all, before their relation is examined and the stemma codicum is revised on the basis of a series of propositions. It is concluded that Ath has been the exemplar for some of the later manuscripts, either directly or through intermediaries. The study concludes with a more theoretical chapter, Section 4, which places the production of Ath and other manuscripts, containing Procopius' works and other early Byzantine historiographical texts, in the general context of the intellectual milieu of the Palaeologan period.
Education and Learning in Byzantine Thessalonike
Author: Filippomaria Pontani
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2024-06-04
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 3111429415
DOWNLOAD EBOOKByzantine Thessaloniki has often been considered in its relationship with Constantinople, as a deuteragonist vis-à-vis the capital. However, from the 11th through the 15th century the symproteuousa has often played an important role in terms of the study, preservation and circulation of learning. The present volume collects 11 papers originating in a conference held at Thessaloniki's Kentro Istorias in May 2022. Some of them offer new elements and fresh discoveries on single erudites and their work, from Michael Mitylenaios to John Pediasimos, from Demetrios Triklinios to Thomas Magister, from Matthew Blastares to Manuel Boullotes. Hagiography, schedography, lexicography, philology on ancient Greek texts, and even canonical law, are among the genres practised by Thessalonian scholars over the centuries. Other papers offer thoughts on Eustathios' didactic aims, bird's-eye views of the city's intellectual milieux in the early Palaeologan era, or of the learned circles in Manuel II's entourage. The book acknowledges the "highs" and the "lows" in the cultural development of medieval Thessaloniki, and brings together essential elements towards an assessment of the city's role in the history of education and learning.
History as Literature in Byzantium
Author: Ruth Macrides
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-12-05
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 1351930648
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlthough perceived since the sixteenth century as the most impressive literary achievement of Byzantine culture, historical writing nevertheless remains little studied as literature. Historical texts are still read first and foremost for nuggets of information, as main sources for the reconstruction of the events of Byzantine history. Whatever can be called literary in these works has been considered as external and detachable from the facts. The 'classical tradition' inherited by Byzantine writers, the features that Byzantine authors imitated and absorbed, are regarded as standing in the way of understanding the true meaning of the text and, furthermore, of contaminating the reliability of the history. Chronicles, whose language and style are anything but classicizing, have been held in low esteem, for they are seen as providing a mere chronological exposition of events. This book presents a set of articles by an international cast of contributors, deriving from papers delivered at the 40th annual Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies. They are concerned with historical and visual narratives that date from the sixth to the fourteenth century, and aim to show that literary analyses and the study of pictorial devices, far from being tangential to the study of historical texts, are preliminary to their further study, exposing the deeper structures and purposes of these texts.
The Early Palaeologan Renaissance (1261 - c. 1360)
Author: Edmund Fryde
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-12-28
Total Pages: 474
ISBN-13: 9004474269
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Byzantine world underwent a remarkable recovery of intellectual energy in the period following the recovery of Constantinople in 1261. The reaction of the emperors and their entourage of well-educated high officials to their political disasters was a deliberate revival of the glories of ancient Greek culture. The main subject of this book is the preservation and dissemination by this learned elite of such ancient literature, philosophy and science as still survived then, the development of editorial techniques which resulted in more complete and less corrupt texts, and their improvement buy the addition of commentaries and other innovations.
