A catalogue of Greek manuscripts at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor : Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library, Special Collections Research Center. Volume 1 / Nadezhda Kavrus-Hoffmann ; with the collaboration of Pablo Alvarez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kavrus-Hoffmann, Nadezhda, author.

Alvarez, Pablo (Curator of rare books), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library--Catalogs.

Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library.

Manuscripts, Greek (Medieval and modern)--Michigan--Ann Arbor--Catalogs.

Manuscripts, Greek (Medieval and modern).

Paleography, Greek.

Byzantine Empire--History--Sources.

Byzantine Empire.

Genre:

Catalogs.

History.

Sources.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (357 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, 2021.

Summary:

A Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor is a comprehensive, fully illustrated catalogue of the largest collection of Greek manuscripts in America, including 110 codices and fragments ranging from the fourth to the nineteenth century. The collection, held in the Special Collections Research Center of the University of Michigan Library, contains many manuscripts from Epirus and the Meteora monasteries built on high pinnacles of rocks in Thessaly. Nadezhda Kavrus-Hoffmann has based the manuscript descriptions on the latest developments in the fields of paleography and codicology, including the newest recommendations of the Institute for Research and History of Texts in Paris. The catalogue includes high-resolution plates of all the manuscripts, allowing researchers to compare the entries with other Greek manuscripts around the world. This catalogue contains a trove of fascinating information related to Byzantine culture that will be available for the first time to scholars working on various disciplines of the humanities such as Classical and Byzantine Studies, Art History, Medieval Studies, Theology, and History. This is the first volume of a projected two-volume set. Volume 2, also by Nadezhda Kavrus-Hoffmann, will contain descriptions of remaining Greek manuscripts in the Library's collection, starting with Mich. Ms. 59 and ending with Mich. Ms. 238, for a total of 53 manuscripts and 8 fragments. Both volumes will have the same format - catalogue entries for each manuscript together with extensive illustrations. The publication date for Volume 2 has not been established.

Contents:

Volume Intro

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Guide to the Use of the Catalogue

Catalogue

1. Mich. Ms. 4: Gospels, fragment

2. Mich. Ms. 5: Basil of Caesarea (Basil the Great), Homilies on the Psalms, fragments

3. Mich. Ms. 6: Gospel Lectionary, fragment

4. Mich. Ms. 7: Gospel Lectionary, fragment

5. Mich. Ms. 8 (partial palimpsest): Menaion for September, October, November, and December (upper text) and New Testament fragments (underlying text)

6. Mich. Ms. 9: Gospel Lectionary

7. Mich. Ms. 10: Musical Anthology (Papadike)

8. Mich. Ms. 11: Petros Byzantios, Great Doxology

9. Mich. Ms. 12: Gospels, fragment

10. Mich. Ms. 13: Gospel Lectionary, fragment

11. Mich. Ms. 14: John Chrysostom, Homilies on the Acts

12. Mich. Ms. 15: Gospels

13. Mich. Ms. 16: Acts and Epistles

14. Mich. Ms. 17: Euchologion

15. Mich. Ms. 18: Gospels

16. Mich. Ms. 19: Gospels and John Chrysostom, Homily 61 and Homily 62, fragments

17. Mich. Ms. 20: Gospels, incomplete

18. Mich. Ms. 21: Gospels

19. Mich. Ms. 22: Gospels

20. Mich. Ms. 23a: Gospels, fragment

21. Mich. Ms. 23b: Gospels, fragment

22. Mich. Ms. 24: Gospels and Acts with patristic excerpts

23. Mich. Ms. 25: Gospels

24. Mich. Ms. 26: Gospels

25. Mich. Ms. 27: Gospels

26. Mich. Ms. 28 (partial palimpsest): Gospel Lectionary (upper text) and Old Testament, fragments (underlying text)

27. Mich. Ms. 29: Gospel Lectionary

28. Mich. Ms. 30: Gospels with patristic excerpts

29. Mich. Ms. 31: Gospel Lectionary

30. Mich. Ms. 32: Gospel Lectionary, incomplete

31. Mich. Ms. 33: Gospel Lectionary, incomplete

32. Mich. Ms. 34: Acts and Epistles

33. Mich. Ms. 35: Lectionary of the Acts and Epistles

34. Mich. Ms. 36: Panegyrikon (September to February)

35. Mich. Ms. 37 (palimpsest): Basil the Great, Liturgy (upper text) and Lectionary of the Gospels and Epistles (underlying text)

36. Mich. Ms. 38: Menaion, incomplete

37. Mich. Ms. 39: Festal Menaion (Anthologion), May through August, and The Miracle of the Grain Performed by St. Nicholas, Bishop of Myra

38. Mich. Ms. 40: Gregentios, bishop of Taphar, Conversation with Herban the Jew

39. Mich. Ms. 41: Panegyrikon

40. Mich. Ms. 42: Manuel Malaxos, Nomokanon

41. Mich. Ms. 43: Euchologion, incomplete

42. Mich. Ms. 44: Panegyrikon, incomplete

43. Mich. Ms. 45: Panegyrikon

44. Mich. Ms. 46: Kyriakodromion

45. Mich. Ms. 47: Menaion for November, incomplete

46. Mich. Ms. 48: Panegyrikon, incomplete

47. Mich. Ms. 49: The Liturgy of the Greek Orthodox Church

48. Mich. Ms. 50: Hagiographica (Lives of Female Saints)

49. Mich. Ms. 51: Menologion, incomplete

50. Mich. Ms. 53: Vikentios Damodos, Concise Ethics

51. Mich. Ms. 54: Basil the Great, Liturgy

52. Mich. Ms. 55a: Liturgies (Archieratikon), fragment

53. Mich. Ms. 55b: Panegyrikon, fragment

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-309) and index.

Description based on information from the publisher.

ISBN:

0-472-12665-2