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Greek Manuscripts
Thukydides: Geschichte des Peloponnesischen Krieges, Cod.graec. 430, fol. 54r
Greek Manuscripts
 
The Greek manuscripts (Codices graeci – Cod.graec. – 1-645) have primarily theological contents, however most classical authors are also represented. The manuscripts were created between the 10th and the 19th century, many of them originate in the Byzantine era, before the conquest of Constantinople in the year 1453.
 
Some outstanding items of the collection are i. a. a copy of the "History of the Peloponnesian War" by Thukydides (Cod.graec. 430) going back to the 10th or 11th century, and the manuscript Cod.graec. 85, which is very important for the tradition of Demosthenes.
 
 
The collection is divided into five categories:
  1. The signatures Cod.graec. 1-320 contain manuscripts from different large and small collections purchased up to 1783, among them 186 manuscripts from the library of Johann Jakob Fugger and 14 from the collection of Johann Albrecht Widmanstetter; 25 had been owned by Petrus Victorius before. The volumes were shelved in accordance with their formats.
  2. The manuscripts of the category Cod.graec. 324-347 were acquired by the Munich Court Library in 1803, primarily from the Mannheim court library and the secularised monasteries. This group of manuscripts was shelved according to format.
  3. The manuscripts Cod.graec. 321-323, which cannot be allocated exactly as regards the time of their acquisition, belong between the aforementioned two clearly distinguishable categories.
  4. Cod.graec. 348-574 were originally held by the Augsburg city library, they were transferred to the Munich Court Library after the mediatisation of Augsburg in the year 1806. They are shelved according to format.
  5. The manuscripts from Cod.graec. 575 onward represent new acquisitions since the publication of the final volume of the catalogue produced by Ignaz Hardt (1812). They were shelved independently of their format in the order of their acquisition and are catalogued in the repertory. A printed catalogue is being prepared with the financial support of the Greek parliament.
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