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From: Bettina Wagner <Bettina.Wagner(a)bsb-muenchen.de>
Date: Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 3:34 AM
Dear colleagues,
another volume of the catalogue of Greek manuscripts of the Bayerische
Staatsbibliothek at Munich has just been published:
Katalog der griechischen Handschriften der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek München
Band 4: Codices graeci Monacenses 181-265, neu beschrieben von Kerstin Hajdú
= Catalogus codicum manu scriptorum Bibliothecae Monacensis, Tomus 2,4
592 pp., 124 ill., 3 tables
Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2012
ISBN: 978-3-447-06725-6
In volume 4 of the catalogue of Greek manuscripts of the Bayerische
Staatsbibliothek at Munich, 86 manuscripts are described which belong
to the so-called "old holdings" of the Munich Court Library and were
acquired between the foundation of the library in 1558 and the year
1803, i.e. before the dissolution of Bavarian monasteries. About the
same proportion of manuscripts dates from the Byzantine period and
from after 1453 (mainly the sixteenth century), and about 14 % of the
manuscripts are written on vellum. 36 manuscripts entered the Munich
library from the collection of the Augsburg merchant Johann Jakob
Fugger in 1571, while seven volumes were originally owned by the
diplomat and orientalist Johann Albrecht Widmanstetter (died 1557).
Thirteen manuscripts were acquired in 1583 by Duke Wilhelm V from
Andreas Darmarios, eight volumes were looted at Tübingen during the
30-years-war in 1635, and ten manuscripts belonged to the Florentine
humanist Petrus Victorius in the sixteenth century. The remaining
codices were part of various smaller collections and came to Munich
individually. Among the previous owners are Antonio de Covarrubias,
Antonius de Massa, Domenico Grimani, Hieronymus Aleander, Petrus
Crinitus, Isidoros of Kiev and Hartmann Schedel. Most manuscripts
contain theological texts, but works of classical authors are also
represented. Occasionally, the codices contain texts on other
subjects, e.g. on military science or grammar.
For the ongoing project to catalogue the c. 650 Greek manuscripts of
the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek at Munich, see also
http://www.manuscripta-mediaevalia.de/info/projectinfo/muenchen-griechisch.…
Kind regards,
Bettina Wagner
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