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The focus of scientific research on palaeography and codicology at the Institute of Byzantine Studies lies among others on the analysis of Greek manuscripts of the Austrian National Library for the project Scribes of Greek Manuscripts in Austria: Signed and dated manuscripts, sorted by place of production and style. As regards Byzantine and Post-Byzantine time the intensive research in the topic of Greek palaeography of the last decades was ground-breaking and gave a basic impetus to this science the “Viennese School of Palaeography” has shaped essentially by the works of Herbert Hunger as well as integrated in its studies. The present volume of Miscellanea starts a series of studies to various manuscripts exceeding the description in a future repertory of Viennese Greek manuscripts; therefore these results and studies are published as accompanying miscellanea. At the same time the series is intended to centralize studies on Viennese Greek manuscripts. The series will appear in casual sequence as monograph or collection of articles. The first volume is dedicated to the following themes: palimpsests, miscellaneous codices, scholars’ manuscripts of the 14th century (exemplified by Manuel Meligalas), scribes’ activity in the 15th century (exemplified by Zacharias Kallierges), catenae, and forgeries of Greek manuscripts in modern times (exemplified by Konstantinos Simonides).
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