Exploring Greek Manuscripts in the Gennadius Library Hardcover - 2011

Gennadeion Monographs VI. In english (also available in greek). Cloth, 26 cm, 156 pp., 2 b/w figs., 70 colour plates (manuscripts). Description: Among the collections of the Gennadius Library in Athens are over 300 Greek manuscripts, ranging in date from the 13th to the 19th century. This book presents a collection of studies of various aspects of the collection written by leading paleographers, Byzantine art historians, and theologians. CONTENTS: John Gennadius and the Manuscript Collection of the Gennadius Library (M. Politi); Illustrated Byzantine Manuscripts in the Gennadius Library (A. Mitsani); Manuscripts of the Orthodox Church in the Gennadius Library (E. Giannopoulos); The Text of The Ladder in Genn. MS Ku. 15 (N. Papadimitriou); Illustrated Manuscripts in the Age of the Printed Book (Olga Gratziou); Manuscript Sources for Ecclesiastical History in the Gennadius Library (Criton Chrysochoidis); Greek and Western Scholars, Scribes and Philologists of the 15th to 19th Centuries in Manuscripts of the Gennadius Library (E. Pappa); Post-Byzantine Philosophical Manuscripts of the Gennadius Library (Ch. Karanasios); Another Look at the Karamanli Script as a Mode of Expression among the Orthodox of Asia Minor: Two Manuscripts of the 18th Century (P. Stathi); The Memorandum of 1796: A Further Reading (Sp. Asdrahas); Tracing the Presence of Ioannis Emmanouel, Comrade of Riga Ferraios, in an 18th Century Mathematarion (Y. Kokkonas). // Maria Politi is President of the Greek Paleographical Society. Eleni Pappa is a scholar at the Research Center for Greek and Latin Literature at the Academy of Athens.