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A manuscript of the monastery of the Soumela, Trebizond, now at Selly Oak, Birmingham

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2016

J. Neville Birdsall
J. Neville Birdsall*
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Birmingham/Darlington
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As I reported to the International Colloquium on Greek Palaeography and Codicology, Berlin and Wolfenbiittel, October, 1983, I have for some years been gathering the materials for a catalogue of the Greek manuscripts housed in the Mingana Collection of the Central Library of the Selly Oak Colleges, in the city of Birmingham, England. The intervening years, for personal and administrative reasons, have not seen the appearance of this intended catalogue, but this delay has not been altogether detrimental, for occasionally some additional information has come to light. This short note reports one such piece of information, which I consider should be given to colleagues without further delay.

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Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies , Volume 14 , 1990 , pp. 240 - 246
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Copyright © The Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham 1990

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References

1. Ed. Milos Velimirović (Oxford 1973) 167f.

2. Eleuteri, Paolo, ‘Altri manoscriti con i versi e simili’, Codices manuscript! 6 (1980) Heft 3, 81–87.Google Scholar

3. Garitte, Gerard, ‘Sur une formule des colophons de manuscrits grecs in Collectanea Vaticana in honorem Anselmi M. Card. Albareda e Biblioteca Vaticana edita (Studi e Testi 219, 220) I (1962) 359–390.Google Scholar

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5. art. cit. 82.

6. After my initial confirmation of these data, I made a further visit to the Library on 14 September, 1989, in the company of Professor A.A.M. Bryer and Father Mihail Spatarelu, who each greatly assisted me on a number of points.

7. This was published in 1898 as an appendix to Kyriakides, E. Th., (Athens 1898)Google Scholar

8. I owe this interpretation to Father Spatarelu. On the signs, see Tardo, A., L’antica melurgia bizantina (Grottaferrata 1938) 294–297 Google Scholar; Wellesz, Egon, Byzantine Music and Hymnography (Oxford 1961) 297–299.Google Scholar

9. See Margoliouth, D.S. and Woledge, G., ‘Alphonse Mingana 1881–1937, in Catalogue of the Mingana Collection of Manuscripts, III (Cambridge 1939) v–xii, esp. vii.Google Scholar

10. Kyriakides, E.Th., (Athens 1897) 62, 76.Google Scholar

11. I owe this point to Professor Bryer, who identifies the handwriting.