The Most Ancient Greek Manuscripts of the Ladder of John Climacus
The Byzantine hand-written tradition of the Ladder of Divine Ascent has poorly been studied. The first step in this direction should be the systematic description of all surviving Greek manuscripts of this book. According to the counting of the author, not less than 511 Greek manuscripts from the ei...
| Published in: | Scrinium |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2016
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Scrinium
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| IxTheo Classification: | KAC Church history 500-1500; Middle Ages KCA Monasticism; religious orders |
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Byzantine monasticism
manuscripts
libraries
Ladder of Divine Ascent
John Climacus
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Presumably Free Access Volltext (Verlag) |
| Summary: | The Byzantine hand-written tradition of the Ladder of Divine Ascent has poorly been studied. The first step in this direction should be the systematic description of all surviving Greek manuscripts of this book. According to the counting of the author, not less than 511 Greek manuscripts from the eighth to the nineteenth century with text of the Ladder were kept. This article is dedicated to the 35 most ancient books, dated from 8th to 10th century. The most ancient Greek manuscripts of the Ladder are available in the libraries of not less than 8 countries (Italy, Greece, Egypt, Russia, England, Germany, France and Israel (Jerusalem).
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| ISSN: | 1817-7565 |
| Contains: | In: Scrinium
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/18177565-00121p23 |