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• Title:Exploring Greek manuscripts in the Gennadius Library / edited by Maria Politi and Eleni Pappa ; translated by John C. Davis and Elizabeth Key Fowden.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Politē, Maria L., editor.
  Pappa, Eleni, editor.
  Gennadius Library.
  American School of Classical Studies at Athens.
  Greek Papyrological Society.
  
• Published/Created:Princeton, New Jersey : American School of Classical Studies at Athens, in collaboration with the Greek Paleographical Society, 2011.
  

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  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: Z6605.G7 E95 2011
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Gennadius Library--Congresses.
  Manuscripts, Greek (Medieval and modern)--Greece--Athens--Congresses.
  Paleography, Greek--Congresses.
  Illumination of books and manuscripts, Byzantine--Congresses.
  
• Genre/Form: Conference papers and proceedings.
  
• Description:xii, 139 pages, 70 pages of plates : color illustrations ; 27 cm
  
• Series:Gennadeion monograph ; 6.
  
• Summary:"Greek manuscript production has a long and fascinating history, covering almost every area of intellectual, religious, literary, and administrative endeavor in the Greek-speaking world of the medieval and early modern eras. Exploring Greek Manuscripts in the Gennadius Library features 12 essays on the tremendously rich and exquisite Greek manuscript collection of the Gennadius Library. Each of the authors is a leading manuscript scholar, and each chapter is illustrated by color plates highlighting some of the most interesting and beautiful examples held in the Library's care."-- Provided by publisher.
  "The Gennadius Library of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens and the Greek Paleographical Society have joined together to produce this volume on Greek manuscripts in both Greek and English. Their publications marks the relaunch of the Gennadeion Monographs series and allows the American School of Classical Studies to continue its commitment to bilingual publishing."-- Provided by publisher.
  
• Notes:Proceedings from a colloquium and exhibition held at the Gennadius Library, May 10, 2004.
  Maria L. Politi is President of the Greek Paleographical Society; Eleni Pappa is a researcher at the Academy of Athens--See book jacket.
  Includes bibliographical references (pages 117-126) and index.
  
• ISBN:9780876614075 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
  0876614071 (hbkl. ; alk. paper)
  9789608696075
  9608696070
  9789608830318
  9608830311
  
• Contents:Preface / Maria Georgopoulou
  Introduction: John Gennadius and the manuscript collection of the Gennadius Library / Maria Politi
  Illustrated Byzantine manuscripts in the Gennadius Library / Angeliki Mitsani
  Ecclesiastical musical manuscripts in the Gennadius Library / Emmanuel Giannopoulos
  The text of "The ladder" in Genn. MS [Kappa upsilon] 15 / Nonna Papadimitriou
  Illustrated manuscripts in the age of the printed book / Olga Gratziou
  Manuscript sources for ecclesiastical history in the Gennadius Library / Kriton Chrysochoidis
  Greek and Western scholars, scribes, and philologists of the 15th-19th centuries in manuscripts of the Gennadius Library / Eleni Pappa
  Post-Byzantine philosophical manuscripts in the Gennadius Library / Chariton Karanasios
  Another look at the Karamanli script as a mode of expression among the Orthodox of Asia Minor : two manuscripts of the 18th century / Penelope Stathi
  The memorandum of 1796 : a further reading / Spyros I. Asdrahas
  Tracing the presence of Ioannis Emmanouil, comrade of Rigas Ferraios, in an 18th-century "mathematarion" / Yannis Kokkonas.