Major Recent Additions to the Dumbarton Oaks Collection of Greek Manuscripts (DO MS 6 and DO MS 7): Codicological and Paleographic Descriptions and Analyses

• Published in: Dumbarton Oaks papers 2023-01, Vol.77, p.329-364
• Main Author: KAVRUS-HOFFMANN, NADEZHDA
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Notes and Reports
• ISSN: 0070-7546; 2325-9345

"In 2016 and 2018, the Dumbarton Oaks Museum added two manuscripts to its increasingly comprehensive collection of Greek manuscripts: the early tenth-century Four Gospels (DO MS 6) and the ninth-century codex of forty-four homilies on the Gospel of Matthew by John Chrysostom (DO MS 7). Ninth- and tenth-century Greek manuscripts are rarely offered for sale, and Dumbarton Oaks was fortunate to acquire both manuscripts, which had been in private collections but now have become available to scholars. With these acquisitions, the Dumbarton Oaks collection of manuscripts encompasses the entire period of minuscule manuscript production in Byzantium from the ninth to the fifteenth century and exemplifies all major writing styles of this period. I was privileged to examine both manuscripts soon after their acquisitions, and this article summarizes the results of my research. The article combines a cataloguing format with extensive paleographic and codicological analyses and complements previous publications in DOP on DO MSS 1, 3, 4, and 5."