ANN 12.11.2011

Greek Manuscripts (British Library)

Sophie Arp, The British Library

The British Library's Digitised Manuscripts site was launched in September 2010, and currently attracts more than 24,000 page views each month. Our first upload comprised 284 Greek manuscripts, and we have periodically added more content, including the Lindisfarne Gospels, the Old English Hexateuch and autograph manuscripts of William Blake and JSBach.

Another 74 Greek manuscripts have now been added to this list, containing approximately 25,000 images. The British Library is privileged to house such a significant collection of manuscripts written in the Greek language, ranging in date from the 3rd century B.C. to the present, and constituting arguably the largest and most important resource outside Greece for the study of Hellenic culture.

The digitisation of our Greek manuscripts has been generously funded by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation. The most recent upload features items ranging in date from the 11th to the 18th century, and includes a 14th-century Psalter, works of St Basil of Caesarea copied in the 14th century, a 15th-century copy of Homer's Odyssey, a collection of divinations and writings on magic, and a Greek-Latin dictionary copied in about 1420.

Here is a listing of all the Greek manuscripts recently added to the British Library's Digitised Manuscripts.

Harley 1675
Copies of Greek and Latin texts with notes by Toussaint Berchet (d. 1607), after 1590
Harley 1771
Homer, Iliad, 15th century
Harley 1814
Dionysius Periegetes, Orbis descriptio, 15th century
Harley 1868
Cassianus Bassus, Geoponica, 14th century
Harley 3100
Suda, 15th century
Harley 3329
In Sacra Biblia Graeca ex versione LXX, 17th century
Harley 3382
Selections from Claudius Aelian, De animalium natura libri xvii, 17th century
Harley 3521
Collection of notes and extracts, 17th century
Harley 4767
Lycophron, Alexandra, 17th century
Harley 5534
Psalter, 14th century
Harley 5539
Works of Agapetus diaconus and Basil I 'the Macedonian', 15th century
Harley 5549
Life of Hartmann Beyer (1516-1577), by Philipp Reinhart, ?1580
Harley 5554
Nomocanon of Manuel Malaxos, 1675
Harley 5556
Gerasimus, Patriarch of Alexandria, On Communion, etc., 1714
Harley 5560
Sindbad (Syntipas) the philosopher, Tale of the king, his son, and the 7 sages, 1667
Harley 5561
Euchologion, with readings from the Epistles and Gospels, 13th-15th century
Harley 5564
Epiphanius of Salamis, De duodecim gemmis, 16th century
Harley 5570
Psalms and Odes etc., 16th century
Harley 5574
Symeon, Archbishop of Thessalonica, 17th century
Harley 5575
Euthymius Zigabenus, Ps.-Nonnus, Nicholas of Andida etc., 1281
Harley 5576
Works of St Basil of Caesarea etc., 14th century
Harley 5577
Works of Dionysius Periegetes and Eustathius of Thessalonica, 15th century
Harley 5581
Menaion, 14th century
Harley 5588
New Testament, 13th century
Harley 5590
Eusebius of Caesarea, Commentary on the Psalms, 16th century
Harley 5592
Photius, Bibliotheca, 16th century
Harley 5593
Works of Photius, Aristides, Philip of Side etc., 1555
Harley 5596
Divinations, magic, etc., 15th century
Harley 5599
Aristotle, 15th century
Harley 5602
St John Chrysostom, Homiliae 1-55 in Acta Apostolorum, 12th century
Harley 5603
Metaphrastan Menologion for October, 11th century
Harley 5607
Hilarion Cigalas, Archbishop of Cyprus, Synodikon in hexameters, 17th century
Harley 5608
Missal of Dominican use, 15th century
Harley 5609
Works of St Basil of Caesarea and Isocrates, 15th century
Harley 5610
Epistolographi Graeci, 14th century
Harley 5619
St John Damascenus, Barlaam and Josaphat, c.1590
Harley 5623
Liturgica, 13th-17th century
Harley 5626
Medical writings of Aetius and Hippocrates, 16th century
Harley 5630
Symeon, Archbishop of Thessalonica, 16th century
Harley 5637
Collations of Polyainos, Strategemata, 17th century
Harley 5645
Themistius, 17th century
Harley 5663
Collection of fragments, 16th century
Harley 5666
Commentary on St Gregory, In laudem S. Basilii Magni, etc., 16th century
Harley 5672
Homer, Iliad, 15th century
Harley 5675
Canon Law, 16th century
Harley 5678
Dionysius the Ps.-Areopagite, 15th century
Harley 5679
Dioscorides, 15th century
Harley 5685
Nemesius and Proclus, 12th century
Harley 5691
Works of Manuel Bryennios, etc., 15th-16th century
Harley 5692
Plutarch, Vitae Parallelae, 14th century
Harley 5697
?oannes Chortasmenos, Metropolites of Selymbria, 15th century
Harley 5727
Scholia on Homer, Iliad I-XIX, 15th-16th century
Harley 5734
Theological miscellany, 16th century
Harley 5782
Synaxarion (Lives of Saints), 1362-63
Harley 5783
Symeon, Archbishop of Thessalonica, 1601
Harley 5784
Four Gospels, 15th century
Harley 5790
Four Gospels, 1478
Harley 5795
Iamblichus, 16th century
Harley 6302
Formulary for letters to ecclesiastics, etc., 17th century
Harley 6304
Nomocanon, 1713
Harley 6307
Aristophanes, Plutus, Nubes and Ranae, 15th century
Harley 6309
Mechanica, 17th century
Harley 6310
Collection of fragments, 16th century
Harley 6311A
Demosthenes, De corona, 15th century
Harley 6313
Greek-Latin dictionary, circa 1420
Harley 6316
Ecclesiastical History, 16th century
Harley 6317
Military treatises by Athenaeus, Biton and Leo VI, ?1563
Harley 6322
Demosthenes, Aeschines, Synesius, 15th century
Harley 6325
Homer, Odyssey, 15th century
Harley 6462
Greek grammar in Latin, before 1715
Harley 6478
Epigrams from the Palatine Anthology, before 1713
Harley 6874
Aristotle, 15th century
Harley 6876
Geoponica, c. 1700-1703

Harley 7576
Miscellany, 1588-1724

Quellennachweis:
ANN: Greek Manuscripts (British Library). In: ArtHist.net, 12.11.2011. Letzter Zugriff 19.05.2024. <https://arthist.net/archive/2236>.

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