Monday 2 July 2012

Supplementary Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts of the Xeropotamou Monastery, Mount Athos (426-557)




The Supplementary Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts of the Xeropotamou Monastery, Mount Athos (426-557) is circulated by the Center of Byzantine Studies of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 2012, and refers to  manuscripts found in the monastery as well as new acquisitions after the last updated catalogue dated in the early 20th century. In this volume manuscripts No. 426-557 are described. A few more details about the manuscripts of this volume (book): as to their content, most of the faculties are covered: Philology-History, the Bible, Hagiologic, Patristic, Post-Byzantine Theology and Homiletics, Liturgical (in majority), mixed, Nomokanonika , Medical, Archival material, Music.  The dates of the manuscripts range from the 9th to the mid-20th century. Description: P. Sotiroudis, professor of Greek paleography and codicology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and monk Zacharias Xeropotaminos. Printed: graphic arts - "Mygdonia"  publications (280 pp. + 56 tables [photos], shape 24 × 17), ISBN 978-960-7856-46-3




The Autograph Neomartyrologium Collection of Monk Caesarius Daponte  (1713-1784)




The Autograph Neomartyrologium Collection of Monk Caesarius Daponte (1713-1784) [Νεομαρτυρολογικά Σύμμεικτα Α΄] is published by "Mygdonia", Thessaloniki 2012, and involves a critical edition of the autograph (in its majority) manuscript of Caesarius Daponte – now belongs to the Public library of St Petersburg – , the cod. Petropolitanus gr. 253 (ff. 97r-149v), which contains a very important, unknown hagiologic work: a neomartyrologium collection prepared by himself, which failed to attract the attention of those who were dealing with the neomartyrologic literature. This Daponte’s collection is the pilot, who directed the iconography of the neomartyrs contained therein to the liti of the new Catholicon of the Xeropotamou monastery, Mount Athos in 1783. In this way becomes a classic, perhaps unique, example of speech and image interpretation in the late Ottoman Empire and attracts the interest not only of hagiologists or of historians but also the art historians. Introduction, critical edition, Annex Tables: Simeon Paschalides, assoc. professor Hagiology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Images Commentary: George Tsigaras, assist. professor of History and Ethnology, Democritus University of Thrace 414 pp. [+ 34 Images + 8 tables (photo manuscripts)], shape 24 × 17, ISBN 978-960-7666-71-0


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