Recherche über die griechischen Handschriften in Rumänien

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Charitonas Karanasios

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During my researches in Romania in the last three years (1991-93) I
noted the existence of the following collections of greek manuscripts —among
them some less known or unresearched collections.
1. Library of the Romanian Academy (Bucharest): 1566 mss; only the
mss 1-1066 are described. For the rest there is an unpublished catalogue of
M. Carataşu. 2. Library of the Holy Synod (Bucharest): 24 mss, mainly of
the 18th/l9th cent.; most of them are not described. 3. Art Museum (Bucharest):
11 lituigical mss (14th-19th cent.). 4. Central Univeisity Library “M.
Eminescu” (Jassy): About 140 mss; I work already on a catalogue of this
collection. 5. State Archives (Jassy): 40 mss; a short description was published
by Dan Jumara. 6. Literature Museum (Jassy): 4 liturgical mss. 7.
Metropolis of Moldavia and Suceava (Jassy): According to informations of
the librarians the collection includes about 20 mss. 8. Monastery of Neamţ
(Neamţ): 38 mss; an inventory (in manuscript) is kept in the monastery.
9. Monastery of Putna (Putna/ Bucovina): 1 ms (Heirmologion of the 15th
cent.). 10. Museum of Oltenia (Oltenia): To my knowledge there is an Evangelistarium
dated at the 12th cent. 11. Library “A. Urechia” (Galaţi): 16 mss,
mainly theological (18th./l 9th cent.).
According to informations of Romanian librarians and researchers greek
manuscripts are possibly to be found also in other places in Romania, as in
the cities Cluj, Braşov, Braila etc. During my visit in different monasteries in
Moldavia and Bucovina (North Romania) it was not possible to discover
any other greek manuscripts.
The most of the greek manuscripts in Romania were copied during the
17th and 18th cent, and they are important for the transmission of postbyzantine
and modern greek literary texts.

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