Greek Manuscripts at Princeton, Sixth to Nineteenth Century: A Descriptive Catalogue

RR 2011/102 Greek Manuscripts at Princeton, Sixth to Nineteenth Century: A Descriptive Catalogue Sofia Kotzabassi and Nancy Patterson Sevcenko Department of Art and Archaeology and Program in Hellenic Studies, Princeton University, in association with Princeton University Press Princeton, NJ 2010 xxix + 304 pp. + 174 pp. plates ISBN 978 0 691 14387 3 £135; $195

Keywords Books, Catalogues, Greece, United States of America

Review DOI 10.1108/09504121111118717

If it can take many decades, even centuries, to gather special collections for libraries, then so too can the process of producing and publishing catalogues of them sometimes be a long drawn-out process of many years. The origins of the collections covered by this catalogue go back to the first years of the twentieth century, collected from many disparate sources; the catalogue itself has its origins in the early 1970s, then from the early 1990s has taken up to 20 years to be published. "The catalogue is being published in celebration of the thirtieth anniversary of Princeton University's Program in Hellenic Studies". The wait has been well worth it, for the outcome is a detailed, meticulous scholarly analysis of sixty-three manuscripts, all in a beautifully produced and...