Cataloguing of the Greek Manuscripts, Lambeth Palace Library Hellenic Institute, Royal Holloway
For more than two decades the A. G. Leventis Foundation has supported teaching and research activities of the Hellenic Institute, Royal Holloway, University of London. From 2004 to 2013 the Foundation contributed to a full-time lectureship in Byzantine Literature and Greek Palaeography, securing the continuation and expansion of postgraduate courses and the supervision of doctoral theses. Thanks to the Foundation’s support, the Institute has pursued a number of joint research projects, including the cataloguing of the Greek manuscripts of Lambeth Palace Library (LPL). The collection consists of more than 50 Greek manuscripts acquired by LPL since its founding as a public library in 1610. Dated or datable between the 10th and 17th centuries, these include Old Testament texts, Gospel Books and Lectionaries, Acts and Epistles, liturgical texts, synaxaria/menologia, theological works, treatises and excerpts by Church Fathers, Gerontika, Classical authors, Post-Byzantine texts, and papers on, and descriptions and collations of, the LPL’s manuscripts. The Foundation’s support of this project is instrumental in making this important material available to new generations of students and scholars.
Grants given:
2012, 2013
