Exploring Greek manuscripts in the Gennadius Library
By: edited by Maria Polite and Eleni Pappa ; translated by John C. Davis and Elizabeth Key Fowden
Series: Gennadeion monographs -- 6
Publisher: American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Princeton, NJ
Language: eng; gre
Number of pages: 137
ISBN-13: 9780876614075
Subjects: Manuscripts, Greek (Medieval and modern); Greek Paleography; Congresses; Gennadius Library
Description: Greek manuscript production has a long and fascinating history, covering almost every area of intellectual, religious, literary, and administrative endeavor in the Greek-speaking world of the medieval and early modern eras. Exereunēseis sta cheirographa tēs Gennadeiou Bibliothēkēs features eleven essays on the rich and exquisite Greek manuscript collection of the Gennadius Library. Each of the authors is a leading manuscript scholar, and each chapter is illustrated by color plates highlighting some of the most interesting and beautiful examples held in the Library's care.

The Gennadius Library of the Amerikanikē Scholē Klasikōn Spoudōn stēn Athēna and the Hellēnikē Palaiographikē Hetaireia have joined together to produce this volume on Greek manuscripts in both Greek and English editions. Their publications marks the relaunch of the Gennadeion monograph series and allows the American School of Classical Studies to continue its commitment to bilingual publishing.
Notes: Proceedings from a colloquium and exhibition held at the Gennadius Library, May 10, 2004.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Illustrated Byzantine manuscripts in the Gennadius Library / Angeliki Mitsani; title: Ecclesiastical musical manuscripts in the Gennadius Library / Emmanuel Giannopoulos; title: The text of the ladder in Genn. MS. 25 / Nonna Papadimitriou; title: Illustrated manuscripts in the age of the printed book / Olga Gratziou; title: Manuscript sources for ecclesiastical history in the Gennadius Library / Kriton Chrysochoidis; title: Greek and western scholars, scribes, and philologists of the 15th-19th centuries in manuscripts of the Gennadius Library / Eleni Pappa; title: Post-Byzantine philosophical manuscripts of the Gennadius Library / Chariton Karanasios; title: Another look at the Karamanli script as a mode of expression among the orthodox of Asia Minor : two manuscripts of the 18th century / Penelope Stathi; title: The memorandum of 1796 : a further reading / Spyros Asdrahas; title: Tracing the presence of Ioannis Emmanouil, comrade of Rigas Ferraios, in an 18th-century mathematarion / Giannis Kokkonas.