In the last quarter of the 16th century and the first decades of the 17th, two major centres for the production of Greek manuscripts emerged in Wallachia. The first and more influential was established by Loukas, a Cyprus-born calligrapher who served as bishop of Buzău and later as metropolitan of Wallachia (d. 1628/9). The second…
The tradition of Greek poetic texts accompanied by scholia is characterized by considerable variety in the strategy of mise en page. In particular, in the thicket of Homeric manuscripts, a large number of ways of organization can be distinguished both in the layout and in the very system of cross-reference between text and scholia. These…
The paper is intended to offer a different reading on two miniatures from the Bulgarian translation of the Chronicle of Constantine Manasses kept at the Vatican apostolic library (Vat.slav.2). Researchers have largely discussed the link between the Middle Bulgarian medieval manuscript from the 14th c. and the text of the byzantine Chronicle from the 12th…
Η Συλλογή Χειρογράφων της Ιεράς Μονής Κουτλουμουσίου περιλαμβάνει 784 ελληνικούς κώδικες. Στο πλαίσιο διδακτορικής διατριβής πρόκειται να ψηφιοποιηθεί για πρώτη φορά σημαντικό μέρος των εικονογραφημένων χειρογράφων της συλλογής, βάσει προηγούμενων προγραμμάτων της Εθνικής Βιβλιοθήκης, με στόχο τη διάσωση και ανάδειξη των κειμένων στην επιστημονική κοινότητα. Η μελέτη θα περιλαμβάνει την κωδικολογική και παλαιογραφική τεκμηρίωση, καθώς…