{"id":14322,"date":"2015-03-26T20:05:16","date_gmt":"2015-03-26T20:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/?p=14322"},"modified":"2015-03-26T20:05:16","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T20:05:16","slug":"75-more-greek-manuscripts-online-at-the-british-library-the-last-batch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/2015\/03\/26\/75-more-greek-manuscripts-online-at-the-british-library-the-last-batch\/","title":{"rendered":"75 more Greek manuscripts online at the British Library &#8211; the last batch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The <a href=\"http:\/\/britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk\/digitisedmanuscripts\/2015\/03\/greek-manuscripts-digitisation-project-the-final-seventy-five-manuscripts-go-online.html#\">final batch of Greek manuscripts has gone online at the British Library<\/a>.\u00a0 This means that pretty much all the mss are now online, except for a few fragments post-1600 bound in other collections; and a few (how many?) not digitised because doing so might damage them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Something that I have not mentioned, but which I really appreciate about the British Library digitisations: the catalogue entry for each manuscript, and the indication of the start of each new work.\u00a0 When you see what other sites sometimes do, you&#8217;ll be all the more grateful.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Here are a few highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/manuscripts\/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_41660\">Add MS 41660<\/a>, Works by Ephraem the Syrian. 11th-12th century.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/manuscripts\/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Add_MS_82951\">Add MS 82951<\/a>, Justin Martyr, <em>Works<\/em>. Created in Venice in 1541, probably at the request of Guillaume Pelicier.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/manuscripts\/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Arundel_MS_539\">Arundel MS 539<\/a>, Eusebius of Caesarea, <em>Church History<\/em>. Decorated headpieces in red and black ink (ff 2r, 164r).\u00a0 Complete with a\u00a0 table of contents.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/manuscripts\/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Arundel_MS_542\">Arundel MS 542<\/a>, Works of St John Chrysostom (some now attributed to Severian of\u00a0Gabala). 10th century.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/manuscripts\/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Arundel_MS_543\">Arundel MS 543<\/a>, St John Chrysostom, <em>Homilies on Matthew<\/em>. 11th century.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/manuscripts\/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Burney_MS_34\">Burney MS 34<\/a>, Catena &#8211; a medieval bible commentary &#8211; on the Octateuch (Rahlfs 424), and additional theological texts. Italy, N. E. (Veneto?), mid-16th century.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/manuscripts\/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Burney_MS_35\">Burney MS 35<\/a>, Theodoret of Cyrrhus, <em>Interpretatio in Psalmos<\/em>. Italy, Central. Written during Lent 1548.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Burney MS 46, Works of Athanasius of Alexandria, in two volumes, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/manuscripts\/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Burney_MS_46\/1\">Burney MS 46\/1<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/manuscripts\/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Burney_MS_46\/2\">Burney MS 46\/2<\/a>. 2nd half of the 11th century-1st half of the 12th century.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/manuscripts\/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Burney_MS_47\">Burney MS 47<\/a>, St John Chrysostom, <em>In Joannem<\/em> (<em>homiliae<\/em> 1-45). 11th century.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Burney MS 48, Commentaries of St John Chrysostom on the Pauline letters, followed by the Catholic Epistles (Gregory-Aland 643; Scrivener act 225; von Soden \u03b1 1402, X40), in two volumes, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/manuscripts\/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Burney_MS_48\/1\">Burney MS 48\/1<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/manuscripts\/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Burney_MS_48\/2\">Burney MS 48\/2<\/a>. 11th-12th century.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/manuscripts\/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Burney_MS_49\">Burney MS 49<\/a>, Homilies of St John Chrysostom on selected Pauline Epistles. Eastern Mediterranean (Corfu), 1430.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Burney MS 50, <em>Apophthegmata Patrum (Collectio alphabetica)<\/em>, in two volumes, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/manuscripts\/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Burney_MS_50\/1\">Burney MS 50\/1<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/manuscripts\/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Burney_MS_50\/2\">Burney MS 50\/2<\/a>. Eastern Mediterranean (Crete) 1361-1362.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/manuscripts\/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Burney_MS_51\">Burney MS 51<\/a>, Two fragments of the works of St Gregory of Nazianzus, the first dating from the late 10th or 11th century, the second dating from the 14th century. Fragment I possibly from Constantinople.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/manuscripts\/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Burney_MS_52\">Burney MS 52<\/a>, Homilies and sermons of St Gregory of Nyssa. 12th-13th century.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/manuscripts\/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Burney_MS_53\">Burney MS 53<\/a>, Patristic miscellany, containing texts by Origen, Eustathius, Gregory of Nyssa, and the emperor Zeno. Italy, S. (Naples) or Central (Rome), c. 1580.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/manuscripts\/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Burney_MS_81\">Burney MS 81<\/a>, Heron of Alexandria, <em>Pneumatica<\/em>, with extensive Latin marginal annotations and many pen diagrams. Italy, mid-16th century.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/manuscripts\/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Burney_MS_94\">Burney MS 94<\/a>, Grammatical and medical treatises, including works by Manuel Moschopoulos, Thomas Magister, Rufus of Ephesus, and Oribasius of Pergamon. Italy, N. E. (Venice), 2nd half of the 15th century.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/manuscripts\/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Burney_MS_104\">Burney MS 104<\/a>. Commentary on and introduction to Ptolemy&#8217;s <em>Tetrabiblos<\/em>. Written in 1543, possibly in Paris.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/manuscripts\/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Burney_MS_105\">Burney MS 105<\/a>, Pappas of Alexandria, <em>Synagoge<\/em>, imperfect, including extracts from the Mechanica of Heron of Alexandria. Italy, 2nd half of the 16th century.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/manuscripts\/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Burney_MS_408\">Burney MS 408<\/a>, Palimpsest, the upper (14th-century) text being homilies of St John Chrysostom on Matthew and John, and the lower fragments of a 10th century Gospel lectionary (Gregory-Aland <em>l<\/em> 338).<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/manuscripts\/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Egerton_MS_265\">Egerton MS 265<\/a>, Collection of novellae and other legal texts by Emperors Leo VI the Wise, Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus, Nicephorus II Phocas, Cosmas Magister and Eustathius Romaeus. 15th century.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/manuscripts\/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Egerton_MS_2474\">Egerton MS 2474<\/a>, Collection of various texts from Pseudo-Plutarch, Synesius of Cyrene, Amphilochius of Iconium, Gregory of Nazianzus, Nicetas David and John Zonaras, with interlinear glosses and marginal scholia. Italy?, 17th century.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/manuscripts\/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Egerton_MS_2610\">Egerton MS 2610<\/a>, Four Gospels (Gregory-Aland 700). 11th century.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/manuscripts\/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Egerton_MS_2626\">Egerton MS 2626<\/a>, Sozomen, <em>Historia ecclesiastica<\/em> (TLG 2048.001); Evagrius Scholasticus, <em>Historia ecclesiastica<\/em> (TLG 2733.001). Italy, Central (Rome), 1524.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/manuscripts\/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Egerton_MS_2783\">Egerton MS 2783<\/a>, Four Gospels, imperfect (Gregory-Aland 714). 12th-13th century.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/manuscripts\/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Harley_MS_5796\">Harley MS 5796<\/a>, New Testament (Gregory-Aland 444; Scrivener evan. 444, Act. 153, Paul 240; von Soden \u03b4 551). 1st half of the 15th century.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/manuscripts\/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Royal_MS_1_B_II\">Royal MS 1 B II<\/a>, Old Testament: Major and Minor Prophets of the Septuagint version (Rahlfs 22). 1st quarter of the 12th century. Headpieces, initials and titles in carmine ink.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/manuscripts\/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Royal_MS_2_A_VI\">Royal MS 2 A VI<\/a>, Psalter (Rahlfs 175). 12th century. Illuminated headpieces at the start of Psalms 1 and 77 (ff 22r, 154r).<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/manuscripts\/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Royal_MS_16_C_XI\">Royal MS 16 C XI<\/a>, Galen, <em>De diebus decretoriis libri III<\/em>. Italy, 1st quarter of the 16th century.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/manuscripts\/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Royal_MS_16_C_XII\">Royal MS 16 C XII<\/a>,Astronomical works, including John Philoponus on the construction of astrolabes. 1544-3rd quarter of the 16th century.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/manuscripts\/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Royal_MS_16_C_XV\">Royal MS 16 C XV<\/a>, \u00a0Two works attributed to Gregory of Nyssa, with marginal notes by Isaac Casaubon and Patrick Young. 3rd quarter of the 16th century.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/manuscripts\/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Royal_MS_16_D_I\" target=\"_self\">Royal MS 16 D I<\/a>, Works by or attributed to St Gregory of Nyssa. 13th century.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/manuscripts\/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Royal_MS_16_D_V\">Royal MS 16 D V<\/a>, St Gregory of Nazianzus, <em>Contra Julianum imperatorem<\/em> 1-2 (<em>Orationes<\/em> 4-5). Italy, Central (Rome), 2nd half of the 16th century.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/manuscripts\/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Royal_MS_16_D_Vi\">Royal MS 16 D VI<\/a>, St Gregory of Nazianzus, <em>Orationes<\/em> 7, 8, 18, and 34, with the commentary of Elias of Crete. Italy, Central (Rome), 2nd half of the 16th century.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/manuscripts\/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Royal_MS_16_D_Viii\">Royal MS 16 D VIII<\/a>, Acts of the First Council of Nicaea, compiled by Gelasius of Cyzicus, followed by two works by Athanasius. Italy, 4th quarter of the 16th century.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/manuscripts\/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Royal_MS_16_D_xi\">Royal MS 16 D XI<\/a>, St Gregory of Nyssa, selected works. Italy, N. (Venice or Trento), 2nd half of the 16th century.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/manuscripts\/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Royal_MS_16_D_XVII\">Royal MS 16 D XVII<\/a>, Clement of Alexandria, <em>Paedagogus<\/em>, <em>Hymnus Christi servatoris<\/em>, and an anonymous iambic hymn. 1st half of the 16th century.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bl.uk\/manuscripts\/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Royal_MS_16_D_XVIII\">Royal MS 16 D XVIII<\/a>, Eustathius Macrembolites, <em>Hysmene et Hysmenias<\/em>; Achilles Tatius, <em>Leucippe et Clitophon<\/em>; and [Eustathius Antiochenus], <em>Commentarius in hexaemeron<\/em>. The works are from three separate manuscripts, bound together at some point after 1697. 1st half of the 16th century.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And that is just a selection!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The only thing to wish for is a PDF download for the books.\u00a0 When you need to do serious work on a manuscript, you don&#8217;t want to have to peer through an online viewer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Marvellous to have, all the same!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The final batch of Greek manuscripts has gone online at the British Library.\u00a0 This means that pretty much all the mss are now online, except for a few fragments post-1600 bound in other collections; and a few (how many?) not digitised because doing so might damage them. Something that I have not mentioned, but which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19],"tags":[338,1075],"class_list":["post-14322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-my-diary-announcements","tag-british-library","tag-manuscripts"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}