Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Volume II
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- ISBN 9780472133697
- Dimensions: 210 x 279mm
- Publication Date: 15 Sep 2026
- Publisher: The University of Michigan Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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A Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Volume II unveils the rich diversity and enduring legacy of the Greek manuscript tradition preserved in one of North America's largest collections. Building on the acclaimed first volume, this second and concluding volume offers comprehensive illustrated descriptions of eighty-four manuscripts and fragments housed in the University of Michigan Library's Special Collections Research Center. The discovery of twenty-three previously unknown manuscripts and fragments significantly expands our understanding of Byzantine and post-Byzantine book culture, illuminating the remarkable continuity of Greek scholarly, liturgical, and artistic traditions from the ninth through the nineteenth centuries.
Each entry integrates codicological features, handwriting analysis, textual content, decoration, binding, provenance, and references to earlier scholarship as well as high-quality color plates to illustrate representative pages, script types, and illuminations. Among the exceptional highlights are a fragment of The Great Calculation According to the Indians by Maximos Planoudes, preserving portions of this rare mathematical treatise otherwise lost; an illuminated 1371 copy of The Heavenly Ladder by John Klimax, created by the renowned scribe Joasaph II of the Hodegon Monastery in Constantinople; and a newly identified manuscript containing rare patristic homilies linked to the sixteenth-century Choniates scriptorium in Venice.
Nadezhda Kavrus-Hoffmann is an independent scholar. She is the author of A Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Volume I.
Pablo Alvarez is Curator of the Special Collections Research Center at the University of Michigan Library. He is a collaborator on A Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Volume I.
Julia Miller is an independent scholar.
