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New Materials on Grote (Part 3)

1. This is the third post in a series in which I document new biographical material related to the collector Friedrich Grote (you can find the first two posts here and here). This post is about two letters by Grote that Vincent Engelhardt (Leiden University) found in the Central Archive of the Berlin State Museums… Continue reading New Materials on Grote (Part 3)

If You Have Some Millions to Spare …: The Sale of Codex Sinaiticus Zosimi Rescriptus

1. “If you have some millions to spare, the bidding starts in less than an hour!” In this and similar ways, many colleagues drew attention on social media to Christie’s Live Auction 23056 on 11 June, which was entitled: “Manuscript Masterpieces from the Schøyen Collection”. This auction comprised 62 lots. Among them were enormously important… Continue reading If You Have Some Millions to Spare …: The Sale of Codex Sinaiticus Zosimi Rescriptus

New Research #7

This installment of “New Research” draws attention to two contributions in the latest issue of Le Muséon, an open access anthology and a contribution therein on early Christian Arabic colophons, as well as an interesting upcoming conference. The latest issue (136/1-2) of Le Muséon contains a contribution by Christa Müller-Kessler entitled “The Early Jerusalem Lectionary… Continue reading New Research #7

New Research #4

The Italian publishing group RCS MediaGroup (Milan) has just issued a small booklet by Giulia Rossetto (Austrian Academy of the Sciences) entitled La biblioteca/βιβλιοθήκη. It appeared as no. 33 in a series called “Il Greco“, which is published weekly together with the newspaper Corriere della Sera. The text, which is aimed at a wider readership,… Continue reading New Research #4

A Blog Dedicated to the Dispersed Manuscript Heritage of Saint Catherine’s Monastery

  1. “The history of the Sinai library till the second half of the nineteenth century is mostly a history of its despoiling”.1 The Byzantinist Vladimir Beneshevich (1874-1938) made this statement as early as 1911. At that point, scholars were only just beginning to get an idea of the extent of this “despoiling”. Moreover, the… Continue reading A Blog Dedicated to the Dispersed Manuscript Heritage of Saint Catherine’s Monastery