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These images – mostly black and white photographs and
microfilm – are the results of a very thorough project that was undertaken in
the 1940’s and 1950’s at the monastery.
Biblical texts, patristic writings, liturgical texts, ceremonial chants,
service-books, and manuscripts of other kinds were all included. The Library of Congress Photoduplication
Service, the American Foundation for the Study of Man, and the Farouk I
University (now the University of Alexandria
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Here is a list of New Testament manuscripts in the Library
of Congress’ collection of manuscript-images from St. Catherine’s Monastery (along
with a few other interesting manuscripts).
Each continuous-text manuscript is identified by its catalog-number at Saint Catherine’s as recorded in the Library of Congress archives and by
its Gregory-Aland identification number (if it has one). Embedded links lead to the images
themselves. Occasionally I have included
both a link to a manuscript’s main access-page and to a page-image with a
particularly interesting feature, or (in cases where there is an abundance of
preliminary material) to the beginning of the Biblical text.
A note about terminology: Four Gospels and Letters of Paul and New Testament describe a continuous-text manuscript. Evangelion, Praxapostolos, and Apostolos describe lectionaries.
Psalm 1. Uncial script begins on Image 57.
(Quatrefoil framework for Ad Carpian, elaborate canon-tables, and arched miniatures.)
MS 191 (GA 1228): Four Gospels (fragmentary):
MS 194 (GA 1231): Four Gospels (portion)
Exquisite
frontispiece.
Sloping
uncial script. Assigned to the 700’s.
Sloping
uncial script for main text;
upright for rubrics. (Take a close look; some pages are recycled.)
Sloping
uncial script. Assigned to the 600’s.
Uncials;
some lettering is drawn.
Some
initials are very large and elaborate.
Made
in 967.
Uncial
script.
Upright
uncial script.
MS 269 (GA 1250): New Testament.
MS 270 (GA 1251): New Testament (a remarkably tidy script.)
(The second part has selections from the ends of the Gospels)
Similarities in a full-page illustration suggest a relationship to GA 157.
The opening pages display a sloping uncial script.
Sloping uncial script.
Sloping uncial script.
Beautiful
early minuscule script.
MS 1592: Evangelion
(made in 1563)
MS 1768: Commentary on the Gospels (with Gospels-text)
MS 1993: Four Gospels
(made in 1555)
Royal manuscript,
with illustrations.
Also:
MS 1187: Old Testament History. Abundantly illustrated.
Arabic MS 124: Evangelion (This text is Greek.)
Arabic MS 172: Apostolos (This text is Greek.)
(Praxapostolos?):
A fly-leaf
may constitute a separate Greek fragment-manuscript.
Each Greek manuscript’s page-views can be accessed by clicking on the embedded links above. With a little experimentation, you will see that the Library of Congress site allows you to download images, and to view the page-views in several ways (as lists, or in a grid, for example). Even though these are black and white pictures, they are good pictures nevertheless. This collection of almost 200 Greek manuscripts (and there many more, if one were to include the liturgical texts that have Scripture-passages in them) should be a useful resource for years and years to come.
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