Explore a detailed catalog of Greek manuscripts found in Italian libraries and learn how these works illuminate medieval and early modern scholarly networks.
This nonfiction work compiles notes on Greek manuscripts housed across major Italian collections, with emphasis on provenance, marginalia, and cataloging traditions. It reveals how librarians and scholars recorded, described, and preserved manuscripts from monasteries, universities, and private collections, offering a window into how these volumes moved between institutions over time.
- See how manuscripts are identified, dated, and described, including features like script, binding, and inscriptions.
- Learn about notable libraries and collections, from Bologna to Rome, and how they acquired and organized Greek texts.
- Understand the context of collectors, scribes, and scholars who shaped the transmission of Greek literature in Italian settings.
- Gain insight into how scholars reference and compare manuscripts through occasional bibliographic notes and indexes.
Ideal for readers of manuscript studies, library history, and the history of classical philology, as well as librarians and researchers seeking concrete examples of archival description.
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Paperback. Zustand: New. Print on Demand. This book is an extensive and thorough research of Greek manuscripts present in the libraries of Modena, Italy. The author journeyed to Modena for the express purpose of collating two Homeric Hymn manuscripts, but in doing so, he investigated and inventoried hundreds more Greek manuscripts housed within both public and private collections. The author painstakingly and enthusiastically documents his findings, providing a valuable record of the collections at the time of his research, and which also serves as a useful guide for scholars seeking to explore these collections themselves. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9781330859704_0
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PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers LW-9781330859704
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