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Greek Palaeography and Byzantine Book Culture

Lists resources on the history of Greek handwriting in Byzantine manuscripts (palaeography), including the study of manuscripts as physical artifacts (codicology).

Facsimiles, Compilations

Monumenta Palaeographica Vetera. First Series, Dated Greek Minuscule Manuscripts to the year 1200, edited by Kirsopp Lake and Silva Lake. 10 vols. Boston, Mass. : The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1934-1939.
Demus, O. and Irmgard Hutter.Corpus der byzantinischen Miniaturenhandschriften. Stuttgart : Hiersemann, 1977-1997.
Gamillscheg, E., D. Harlfinger et alii. 3 vols. Repertorium der griechischen Kopisten, 800-1600.⁩ Wien : Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1981.
Harlfinger, D. Specimina griechischer Kopisten der Renaissance. Berlin : Mielke, 1974.
Hatch, W. H. P. Facsimiles and Descriptions of Minuscule Manuscripts of the New Testament.⁩ Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1951.
Hatch, W. H. P.The Principal Uncial Manuscripts of the New Testament. Chicago, Ill.:The University of Chicago press,1939.
Hatch, W. H. P. The Greek Manuscripts of the New Testament in Jerusalem : Facsimiles and Descriptions. Paris: P. Geuthner, 1934. .
Spatharakis, I. Corpus of Dated illuminated Greek Manuscripts to the Year 1453. Leiden: Brill, 1981.

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