22 December 2011
An early Christmas present
World chronicle from the Creation to AD 1574, 17th century: London, British Library, MS Harley 5742, f. 1r (detail)
Okay, it's not exactly the latest gadget, or that diamond ring you've been admiring for the last month; but the British Library can give you (drum roll, please) another 79 fully digitised Greek manuscripts, available on our Digitised Manuscripts site.
Regular readers will know about our Greek Manuscripts Digitisation Project, generously funded by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation. The most recent upload contains some 29,000 new images, and concludes phase two of this project. The manuscripts in question range in date from the 11th century to the 18th century, and include copies of Homer's Odyssey and Iliad, Aesop's Fables, and a world chronicle from the Creation to AD 1574.
New Testament, 16th century: London, British Library, MS Harley 5552, f. 227v
Digitised Manuscripts now contains 589 complete items from the British Library's collections, among them such gems as the Theodore Psalter (Add MS 19352) and a magnificent copy of the Four Gospels (Add MS 11300). Here is a list of the most recent additions to the site:
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Aristotle, Analytica Posteriora, 16th century |
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Horologion, Psalms, Prayers; Basil of Caesarea, De legendis libris gentilibus, 15th/16th century |
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150 Aesopic fables, 15th century |
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Formulary for letters to patriarchs and archbishops, 16th-17th century |
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Sabaitic typicon, 15th century |
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Euchologion, 16th century |
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John VI Cantacuzenus, Apologia for Christianity against Islam, 1720 |
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New Testament, 16th century |
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Psalter, 14th century |
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Collection of Prayers; Nomocanonical Treatises and Questions with Answers, 14th-16th century |
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Psalter, 14th century |
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Letters of Synesius, Phalaris, Alciphron, Brutus and others, 14th century |
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Works of Manuel Chrysoloras, Philip of Macedon, Hesiod and Pythagoras, 15th century |
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Plutarch and Theorian, 16th century |
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Dionysius Periegetes, Orbis descriptio, 16th century |
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Psalms and Odes, 14th century |
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Xenophon, Cyropaedia, 15th century |
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Georgios Sphrantzes, Chronicon maius, 1714 |
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Homer, 15th century |
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Heron, Geoponica, 15th-16th century |
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Christophoros Kontoleon, Περὶ ἀρχῆς, 16th century |
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Hilarion Cigalas, Archbishop of Cyprus, Compendium of the New and Old Testament, 17th century |
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Philotheos Kokkinos, Patriarch of Constantinople, Πάρεργα, 1721 |
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Manuel Moschopoulos, Τεχνολογία, or Scholia on Iliad I and II, c1453-70 |
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Scholia on the Argonautica of Apollonius of Rhodes, 15th-16th century |
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St Basil of Caesarea, Commentary on Isaiah, 11th-12th century |
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Letters, Theologica, Astrologica, 14th-15th century |
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Galen, De pulsibus, 16th century |
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Homilies on the Gospels, 15th century |
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Pietro Bembo, Πρὸς ἐνέτας περὶ τοῦ βοηθεῖν τοῖς τῶν ἑλλήνων λόγοις, 16th century |
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Grammatica, 15th century |
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Works of Manuel Malaxos and Ps.-Methodius, 1574 |
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Lycophron, Alexandra, 15th century |
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Letters and philosophical treatises, c 1453-1457 |
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Patristic miscellany, 14th century |
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Theodore Gazes, Γραμματικὴ εἰσαγωγή, 15th century |
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St John of Damascus, 14th century |
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Galen, De locis affectis, with scholia, c 1490-1510 |
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Galen, De usu partium, 1508 |
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Musaeus, Hero and Leander, 15th century |
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St Basil, Isocrates and Plutarch, 15th century |
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Photius, De spiritus sancti processione, 1722 |
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Aristophanes, c 1490-1519 |
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Sophronius and the Second Council of Nicaea, 13th century |
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Olympiodorus, Commentary on Plato’s Phaedo, 16th century |
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Liturgies, 15th century |
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Demosthenes, Speeches, 15th century |
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Proclus Diadochus, Commentary on Plato’s Parmenides, 16th century |
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Homer, Odyssey, 15th century |
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Homer, Odyssey, 13th century |
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Thomas Stanley, Notes on Callimachus, 17th century |
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Hermogenes, 15th century |
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St Augustine, De trinitate, 1609 |
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Works of Marcus Eremita and others, 11th-12th century |
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Homer's Iliad, and grammatical treatises, 14th century |
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Proclus of Athens, Commentary on the First Alcibiades of Plato, 16th century |
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Psalms and Odes, 16th century |
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Geoponica in 20 books, 16th century |
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Rhetoric, Demosthenes, 16th century |
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Elias Meniates, Petra Offensionis, 1689-1717 |
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Grammatical miscellany, 16th century |
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Four Gospels and Apostolos, 16th century |
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Apollodorus of Athens, Bibliotheca, 16th century |
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Pindar, Olympia and Pythia, 1492 |
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Four Gospels, 1506 |
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Psalter, 1478 |
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Psalter, 16th century |
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Synesius, 16th century |
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Syropoulos, Council of Florence, c 1700 |
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Constantine Lascaris, Grammar, Book 1, 15th century |
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World chronicle from the Creation to 1574, 17th century |
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Sophocles and Euripides, 15th century |
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Maximus of Tyre, Φιλοσοφούμενα, 15th century |
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New Testament, 12th century |
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Photius, 1720 |
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Nectarius, Patriarch of Jerusalem, Περὶ τῆς ἀρχῆς τοῦ πάπα ἀντιρρήσεις, c 1700 |
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Nicetas, Metropolites of Heraclea, 1682 |
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Old Testament, c 1640 |
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Notes and collations of Patrick Young, c 1646 |
First, thank you so much for making these amazing manuscripts available. I have one quick suggestion: would it be possible to post more in depth about specific special manuscripts in the project? Such a manuscript might be the Theodore Psalter etc... a bit more background of the highlighted manuscripts would be great. I know you can't do this on all the manuscripts in the project but a few select ones would be helpful. Thank you