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Dated Greek Manuscripts of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries in the Libraries of Great Britain

By Alexander Turyn

Book information

Publisher
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
30 MB (31094486 bytes)
Pages
346\331
Time added
2023-03-05 08:52:51

Description

Professor 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.

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