{"id":13994,"date":"2015-01-30T11:51:42","date_gmt":"2015-01-30T11:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/?p=13994"},"modified":"2015-01-30T11:51:42","modified_gmt":"2015-01-30T11:51:42","slug":"more-online-greek-manuscripts-at-the-british-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/2015\/01\/30\/more-online-greek-manuscripts-at-the-british-library\/","title":{"rendered":"More online Greek manuscripts at the British Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Another batch of Greek manuscripts has <a href=\"http:\/\/britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk\/digitisedmanuscripts\/2015\/01\/greek-manuscripts-digitisation-project-another-thirty-manuscripts-go-online.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+digitisedmanuscripts+%28Medieval+Manuscripts%29\">gone online<\/a> at the British Library, which is excellent news.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a fairly miscellaneous batch, but that&#8217;s all to the good.\u00a0 New discoveries are not likely to be made in the &#8220;mainstream&#8221; manuscripts that are turned over constantly; but rather in those which are never handled or examined.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Here are some of the highlights (and, drat them, I see that they&#8217;ve busted the copy-and-paste again):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/manuscripts\/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_36589\">Add MS 36589<\/a>, Sermons by Chrysostom, Amphilochius.\u00a0 Eusebius of Caesarea, <em>Martyrs of Palestine (long recension)<\/em>, plus saint&#8217;s lives\u00a012th century.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/manuscripts\/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_39606\">Add MS 39606<\/a>, Gregory of Nazianzus, <em>Orationes<\/em>, followed by extracts from Pseudo-Nonnus, <em>Scholia mythologica<\/em>.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/manuscripts\/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_39618\">Add MS 39618<\/a>, Athanasius, <em>Quaestiones ad Antiochum ducem<\/em> [Sp.]. (TLG 2035.077). A longer version of Quaestio 1 than is printed in the Patrologia Graeca.\u00a0 16th c.\u00a0 Plus a couple of other items.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/manuscripts\/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Burney_MS_60\">Burney MS 60<\/a>, &#8220;Apparatus Bellicis&#8221; (whatever that may be), 16th c.\u00a0 Includes extracts from Julius Africanus&#8217; <em>Kestoi<\/em>, book 7.\u00a0 Might be mathematical.\u00a0 There&#8217;s a table of contents on fol. 2.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/manuscripts\/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Burney_MS_75\">Burney MS 75<\/a>, Letters by or attributed to classical and Byzantine figures, including Libanius, Nicholas Cabasilas, Brutus, Demetrius Cydones, Gregory of Nazianzus, and others. Written in part by the scribe \u0394\u03b7\u03bc\u03ae\u03c4\u03c1\u03b9\u03bf\u03c2 \u03a1\u03b1\u03bf\u1f7a\u03bb \u039a\u03b1\u03b2\u03ac\u03ba\u03b7\u03c2 (ff 138r-144v, 177r-178v); formerly erroneously ascribed to \u1f38\u03c9\u03ac\u03c3\u03b1\u03c6. Greece (Mistra) or Italy, Central (Rome), mid-15th century.\u00a0 Mostly letters of Gregory Nazianzen, but various interesting bits.\u00a0 Also a Life of Libanius from Eunapius.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/manuscripts\/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Burney_MS_84\">Burney MS 84<\/a>, Proclus of Athens, <em>In Platonis Alcibiadem<\/em> I (TLG 4036.007), imperfect. Italy, N.? 4th quarter of the 16th century.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Also some biblical stuff, and various bits of Byzantine stuff that probably would repay opening and looking!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another batch of Greek manuscripts has gone online at the British Library, which is excellent news.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a fairly miscellaneous batch, but that&#8217;s all to the good.\u00a0 New discoveries are not likely to be made in the &#8220;mainstream&#8221; manuscripts that are turned over constantly; but rather in those which are never handled or examined. 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