A comprehensive guide to one of the world's greatest collections of Greek manuscripts. Fully indexed, it describes all the Library's manuscripts in the Greek language, with the exception of the separate collections of papyri and ostraca. Ranging in date from the 3rd century B.C. to the present century, these manuscripts comprise mainly Biblical, patristic, liturgical, classical texts, but also includes papers of scholars relating to Greek texts. This first volume describes nearly 600 manuscripts that form part of the Arundel, Burney, Harley, King's, Landowne, Royal, Stowe and Yates Thompson collections or which have been added to the continuing series of Additional and Egerton Manuscripts since 1925. There is also a list of facsimiles, microfilms, and photographs of Greek manuscripts in other institutions held by the British Library.

This book, first published in 2000, is the main bibliographical listing of Greek New Testament manuscripts.

"Volume I of this catalogue described 102 Greek manuscripts originating from the monastery of Bačkovo, now kept at the Ecclesiastical Historical and Archival Institute of the Patriarchate of Bulgaria in Sofia. Volume II provides comprehensive scholarly descriptions of the remaining 105 Greek manuscripts and fragments dating from the 10th to the 19th century: 46 manuscripts from the monasteries of Panagia Archangeliiotissa and Panagia Kalamou near Xanthi; 11 manuscripts from the Archbishopric of Tŭrnovo; 11 manuscripts that once belonged to Georgios Petrinos (1800-1893) from Sozopol; 5 manuscripts from the monasteries of the Theotokos (Kosinitsa) near Drama and St. John Podromos near Serres; 32 further manuscripts of unattested provenance and mode of acquisition, or acquired through occasional purchases and donations."-- Provided by publisher.

It has taken over 400 years for the Bodleian Library to accrue the largest collection of academic books in Britain. To commemorate the foundation of the library by Sir Thomas Bodley in 1602 this volume gathers together contributions by the staff of the library who each discuss a particular section of the collection.

Codex Sinaiticus is one of the world's most remarkable books. Written in Greek in the fourth century, it is the oldest surviving complete New Testament, and one of the two oldest manuscripts of the whole Bible. No other early manuscript of the Christian Bible has been so extensively corrected, and the significance of Codex Sinaiticus for the reconstruction of the Christian Bible's original text, the history of the Bible and the history of western book making is immense. Since 2002, a major international project has been creating an electronic version of the manuscript. This magnificent printed facsimile reunites the text, now divided between the British Library, the National Library of Russia, St Catherine's Monastery, Mt Sinai and Leipzig University Library.