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Links to 

Manuscripts

“Archives et manuscrits.” BNF. http://archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr.

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“Digitised Manuscripts.” British Library. https://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/.

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“M|Library Search: Greek Manuscripts.” University of Michigan. https://search.lib.umich.edu/catalog?query=Greek+manuscripts&library=U-M+Ann+Arbor+Libraries&filter.format=Manuscript.

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“Manuscript Search.” Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts. http://www.csntm.org/Manuscript.

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“Medieval Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries: A Catalogue of Western Manuscripts at the Bodleian Libraries and Selected Oxford Colleges.” Solopova, Elizabeth, Matthew Holford, and Dimitrios Skrekas. Catalog entries based on R. Barbour, Annaclara Cataldi Palau, the Summary Catalogue, and the Quarto Catalogue. https://medieval.bodleian.ox. ac.uk.

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“New Testament Virtual Manuscript Room.” INTF. http://ntvmr.uni-muenster.de.

 

“Vatican Library: Search and Discover Collections.” DVL: DIGIVATLIB.

https://digi.vatlib.it/.

Handbooks and Introductions to Greek Paleography

Bagnall, Roger S., ed. The Oxford Handbook of Papyrology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.

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Barbour, Ruth. Greek Literary Hands. Oxford Paleographical Handbooks. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981.  

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"Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts: Glossaries." British Library. https://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/GlossA.asp.

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Cavallo, Guglielmo. La scrittura greca e latina dei papiri. Una introduzione. Studia erudita 8. Pisa: Fabrizio Serra, 2008.

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Cavallo, Guglielmo, and Herwig Maehler. Greek Bookhands of the Early Byzantine Period: AD 300-800. BICS Supplement 47. London: University of London, Institute of Classical Studies, 1987.

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Devreesse, Robert. Introduction à l’étude des manuscrits grecs. Paris: Klincksieck, 1954.  

 

Gardthausen, Viktor Emil. Griechische palaeography. Leipzig: Teubner, 1879. 2nd ed. Leipzig, Veit & Comp., 1911–13). Reprint, Zentralantiquariat der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik, 1978.

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Kenyon, Frederic G. The Palaeography of Greek Papyri. 1898. Reprint, Whitefish, MT: Kessinger, 2006.  

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Metzger, Bruce M.  Manuscripts of the Greek Bible: An Introduction to Palaeography. New  York: Oxford University Press, 1981.   

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Montfaucon, Bernard de. Palaeografia Graeca: sive, De ortu et progressu literarum Graecarum: et de variis omnium saeculorum scriptionis Graecas generibus: itemque de abbreviationibus & de notis variarum artium ac disciplinarum: additis figuris & schematibus ad fidem manuscriptorum codicum. Paris: Ludovicum Guerin, 1708. Reprint, Westmead: Gregg, 1970.

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Roberts, Colin H. Greek Literary Hands, 350 B.C.–A.D. 400. Oxford Paleographical Handbooks. Oxford: Clarendon, 1956.   

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Schubart, Wilhelm. Griechische Palaeographie. Munich: Beck, 1925. Reprint, 1966.

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Thompson, Edward Maunde. Handbook of Greek and Latin Palaeography. 1893. Reprint, Chicago: Ares, 1980.

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Turner, E. G. Greek Manuscripts of the Ancient World. 2nd ed. London: University of London, 1987.

 

______. Greek Papyri: An Introduction. New York: Oxford University Press, 1980.

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Wilson, Nigel Guy. Mediaeval Greek Bookhands: Examples Selected from Greek Manuscripts in Oxford Libraries. Cambridge, MA: Mediaeval Academy of America, 1973.

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Studies and Sourcebooks

Cole, Zachary J. Numerals in Early Greek New Testament Manuscripts: Text-Critical, Scribal, and Theological Studies. NTTSD 53. Leiden: Brill, 2017.

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Colwell, Ernest C. Studies in Methodology in Textual Criticism of the New Testament. Edited by Bruce M. Metzger. NTTS 9. Leiden: Brill, 1969.

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Hatch, William H. P. Facsimiles and Descriptions of Minuscule Manuscripts of the New Testament. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1951.   

 

______. The Principle Uncial Manuscripts of the New Testament. Chicago:             University of Chicago Press, 1939.

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Hurtado, Larry W. The Earliest Christian Artifacts: Manuscripts and Christian Origins. Cambridge: Eerdmans, 2006.

 

Hutter, von Irmgard. Corpus Der Byzantinischen Miniaturenhandschriften. Oxford Bodleian Library 2–3. Stuttgart: Anton Hiersemann, 1978.

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Jongkind, Dirk. Scribal Habits of Codex Sinaiticus. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2007.

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Lake, Kirsopp, and Silva Lake, eds. Dated Greek Minuscule Manuscripts to the Year 1200. Boston: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1934–49.  

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Malik, Peter. “The Earliest Corrections in Codex Sinaiticus: Further Evidence from the Apocalypse.” TC: A Journal of Biblical Textual Criticism 20 (2015): 1–12.

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Nongbri, Brent. God’s Library: The Archaeology of the Earliest Christian Manuscripts. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018.​

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______. “Reconsidering the Place of Papyrus Bodmer XIV–XV (P75) in the Textual

            Criticism of the New Testament.” JBL 135 (2016): 405–37.

 

______.  “The Use and Abuse of P52: Papyrological Pitfalls in the Dating of the Fourth Gospel.” HTR 98 (2005): 23–48.​

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Orsini, Pasquale. Studies on Greek and Coptic Majuscule Scripts and Books. Studies in Manuscript Cultures 15. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2018.​

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Parker, D. C. An Introduction to the New Testament Manuscripts and Their Texts. Cambridge: Cambridge University, 2008.

 

Perria, Lidia. GrafiV: Una historia de la escritura griega libraria, del siglo IV a. C. al siglo XVI d.C. Subsidia instrumenta 9. Madrid: Universidad San Dámaso, 2018.

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Royse, James R. Scribal Habits in Early Greek New Testament Papyri. Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2008.

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Smith, W. Andrew. A Study of the Gospels in Codex Alexandrinus: Codicology, Palaeography, and Scribal Hands. Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh, 2013.

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Spatharakis, Iohannis. Corpus of Dated Illuminated Greek Manuscripts: To the Year 1453. Byzantina Neerlandica. 2 vols. Leiden: Brill, 1981. 

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Turyn, Alexander. Dated Greek Manuscripts of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries in the Libraries of Great Britain. Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies, 1980.

 

______. Dated Greek Manuscripts of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries in the Libraries of Italy. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1972.

Chapters

Bülow-Jacobsen, Adam. “Writing Materials in the Ancient World.” Pages 3–29 in The Oxford Handbook of Papyrology. Edited by Roger Bagnall. Oxford. Oxford University Press, 2009.

 

Cavallo, Guglielmo. “Greek and Latin Writing in the Papyri.” Pages 101–48 in The Oxford Handbook of Papyrology. Edited by Roger Bagnall. Oxford. Oxford University Press, 2009.

 

Gonis, Nikolaos. “Abbreviations and Symbols.” Pages 170–78 in The Oxford Handbook of Papyrology. Edited by Roger Bagnall. Oxford. Oxford University Press, 2009.

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Hixson, Elijah. "Dating Myths, Part One." Pages 90–109 in Myths and Mistakes. Edited by Elijah Hixson and Peter Gurry. Downer's Grove, IL. InterVarsity Press, 2019.

 

Johnson, William. “The Ancient Book.” Pages 256–81 in The Oxford Handbook of Papyrology. Edited by Roger Bagnall. Oxford. Oxford University Press, 2009.

 

Mathisen, Ralph W. “Palaeography and Codicology.” Pages 140–68 in The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.

 

Theophilus, Michael. “Multispectral Imaging of Greek Papyrus Fragments from Oxyrhynchus.” Pages 269–80 in Lire les papyrus du Nouveau Testament dans leur context. Edited by C. Clivaz and J. Zumstein. BETL 242. Leuven: Peeters, 2011. 

 

Wilson, Nigel Guy. “Greek Palaeography.” Pages 101–14 in The Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.

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