A Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Volume 2

By Nadezhda Kavrus-Hoffmann, Pablo Alvarez, and Julia Miller

Subjects: History, European History, Reference, Art, Art History, Cultural Studies
Hardcover : 9780472133697, 420 pages, 123 plates, 8.25 x 11, September 2026
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Table of Contents

Cataloging newly discovered manuscripts and fragments in one of the largest collections of Greek manuscripts in North America

Table of contents

Acknowledgments
Preface
Abbreviations
Guide to the Use of the Catalogue
Catalogue
57. Mich. Ms. 59: Panegyrikon
58. Mich. Ms. 60: Miscellaneous texts on ecclesiastical law and patristic excerpts
59. Mich. Ms. 61: Maximos Planoudes, The Great Calculation According to the Indians, fragment
60. Mich. Ms. 64: Anthology of the Sticherarion
61. Mich. Ms. 65: Psalter, lacunose and incomplete
62. Mich. Ms. 66: Psalter, lacunose and incomplete (Psalms only)
63. Mich. Ms. 67: Menaion for the month of December
64. Mich. Ms. 68: Anthology of the Mathematarion
65. Mich. Ms. 69: , Sacra Parallela, incomplete; John Chrysotom, Homilies 1, 4, and 5 against the Jews (Adversus Iudaeos); Basil of Caesarea, Homily in “καθελῶμουτὰςἀποθέκας …” and Homily to the Wealthy; Ephrem the Syrian, Homily 3 on the Advent of our Lord and Homily in the General Resurrection, fragments
66. Mich. Ms. 70: Horologion
67. Mich. Ms. 71: Horologion, incomplete
68. Mich. Ms. 72: Anastasimatarion-Anthology
69. Mich. Ms. 73: Anastasimatarion, incomplete
70. Mich. Ms. 74: Horologion
71. Mich. Ms. 75: Horologion
72. Mich. Ms. 76: Lectionary of the Gospels, incomplete
73 Mich. Ms. 77: Liturgica. Horologion by the Monk Thekaras
74. Mich. Ms. 78: John Chrysostom, In genesim (homilies 34–57, 60–64, 66, and 67), incomplete
75. Mich. Ms. 79: John Chrysostom, Eclogae 2–5, 7–18, 21, 25–29, 31, 32, with numerous lacunae
76. Mich. Ms. 80: Gospels
77. Mich. Ms. 81: Hesychius of Jerusalem, Commentary on the Psalms
78. Mich. Ms. 82: Synaxarion
79. Mich. Ms. 83, a palimpsest: Lectionary of the Gospels (both upper and underlying texts)
80. Mich. Ms. 84 (a parchment scroll): Eucharistic (Communion) prayers
81. Mich. Ms. 92: Panegyrikon, incomplete
82. Mich. Ms. 93: John Chrysostom, Homilies, incomplete
83. Mich. Ms. 94: Menologion for the month of September, fragment
84. Mich. Ms. 95: Menologion for the month of November, incomplete
85. Mich. Ms. 96: John Klimax, Scala Paradisi (The Heavenly Ladder), with scholia and Liber ad Pastorem (To the Shepherd); Patristic miscellany
86. Mich. Ms. 97: Lectionary of the Gospels, lacunose and incomplete
87. Mich. Ms. 98: Theotokarion, incomplete
88. Mich. Ms. 99: The Liturgy of the Greek Orthodox Church
89. Mich. Ms. 100: Euchologion; Nomocanon
90. Mich. Ms. 101: Menaion for the entire year, select feasts (abridged)
91. Mich. Ms. 124: Lectionary of the Gospels, bilingual (Greek and Coptic, Sahidic dialect), fragments
92. Mich. Ms. 130: Euchlogion
93. Mich. Ms. 133: Lectionary of the Gospels
94. Mich. Ms. 134: John Klimax, Scala Paradisi (The Heavenly Ladder) and Liber ad Pastorem (To the Shepherd); Manuel Philes, Epigrams on Scala Paradisi
95. Mich. Ms. 137: Treatise on Logic
96. Mich. Ms. 138: Anthology – Heirmologion
97. Mich. Ms. 139: John Chrysostom, In genesim (homilies 2–7)
98. Mich. Ms. 140: Horologion
99. Mich. Ms. 151: Gospels
100. Mich. Ms. 155: Isaac of Nineveh (Isaac the Syrian), Ascetic letters and orations, fragment; Monk Antiochos, Homilies 7–9
101. Mich. Ms. 168: Triodion and Pentekostarion with musical notation by Chrysaphes the Younger
102. Mich. Ms. 170: Liturgy of the Orthodox Church, fragment
103. Mich. Ms. 171: Lectionary of the Gospels
104. Mich. Ms. 172: Psalter
105. Mich. Ms. 173 (a–h), fragments: a: Psalter; b: Menaion; c: Paracletike; d: Lectionary of the Gospels; e: Gospels; f: Andrew of Crete, Homily 8. In Lazarum quatriduanum; g: John of Damascus, Oratio secunda in dormitionem sanctae Dei anuscript Mariae (Second oration on the Dormition of the Theotokos); h: John Chrysostom, Homilies 1 and 2 In Genesim
106. Mich. Ms. 175: Anthology
107. Mich. Ms. 176: Theodore Agallianos, On Providence and Epistulae; Georgios Amoerutzes, Epistulae; Nikephoros Blemmydes, Homilies on Faith; Theophanes of Nicaea, Treatise on the Tabor Light and Epistulae
108. Mich. Ms. 177: Collection of canonical and liturgical texts
109. Mich. Ms. 178: Anastasimarion-Anthology
110. Mich. Ms. 179: Anastasimarion-Anthology
111. Mich. Ms. 180: Nomocanon with scholia by Ioannes Zonaras
112. Mich. Ms. 181: Anthology
113. Mich. Ms. 182: Gospels
114. Mich. Ms. 183: Petros Peloponnesios, Doxastarion of the Menaion, Triodion, and Pentokostarion for selected feasts
115. Mich. Ms. 184: Anthology
116. Mich. Ms. 185: Doxastarion of the Menaion
117. Mich. Ms. 186: Kalophonic Heirmologion
118. Mich. Ms. 187: Anastasimatarion, incomplete
119. Mich. Ms. 188: Doxastarion
120. Mich. Ms. 189: Anthology
121. Mich. Ms.190: Anastasimatarion, incomplete
122. Mich. Ms. 191: Anthology, incomplete
123. Mich. Ms. 192: Papadike
124. Mich. Ms. 193: Nomocanon
125. Mich. Ms. 194: Anthology
126. Mich. Ms. 196: Lectionary of the Gospels, incomplete
127. Mich. Ms. 208: Mathetarion (Textbook)
128. Mich. Ms. 214: Monuments of Constantinople, fragment
129. Mich. Ms. 215: Pseudo-Dorotheos of Monemvasia, Chronicle
130. Mich. Ms. 238: Panegyrikon
131. Mich. Ms. 243: Liturgica. Collection of canons, hymns, and prayers;
Anastasios of Sinai, Homily on Psalm 6
132. Mich. Ms. 247: Euchlogion
133. Mich. Ms. 306: John Chrysostom, Commentary on Psalm 144, fragment
Plates
Appendix
Manuscripts Dated by Colophon
Scribes 
Ruling Patterns
Watermarks 
Incipits of Unpublished and Little-Known Texts 
Manuscripts Cited
Bibliography 
Index
 
 

Description

A Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Volume 2 unveils the rich diversity and enduring legacy of the Greek manuscript tradition preserved in one of North America's largest collections. Building on the acclaimed first volume, this second and concluding volume offers comprehensive illustrated descriptions of eighty-four manuscripts and fragments housed in the University of Michigan Library's Special Collections Research Center. The discovery of twenty-three previously unknown manuscripts and fragments significantly expands our understanding of Byzantine and post-Byzantine book culture, illuminating the remarkable continuity of Greek scholarly, liturgical, and artistic traditions from the ninth through the nineteenth centuries.

Each entry integrates codicological features, handwriting analysis, textual content, decoration, binding, provenance, and references to earlier scholarship as well as high-quality color plates to illustrate representative pages, script types, and illuminations. Among the exceptional highlights are a fragment of The Great Calculation According to the Indians by Maximos Planoudes, preserving portions of this rare mathematical treatise otherwise lost; an illuminated 1371 copy of The Heavenly Ladder by John Klimax, created by the renowned scribe Joasaph II of the Hodegon Monastery in Constantinople; and a newly identified manuscript containing rare patristic homilies linked to the sixteenth-century Choniates scriptorium in Venice.

Nadezhda Kavrus-Hoffmann is an independent scholar. She is the author of A Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Volume 1. 

Pablo Alvarez is Curator of the Special Collections Research Center at the University of Michigan Library. He is a collaborator on A Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Volume 1. 

Julia Miller is an independent scholar.

"Nadezhda Kavrus-Hoffmann is the most active and productive codicologist of Greek manuscripts working in the USA. The second volume of the University of Michigan’s rich collection is an outstanding companion to its predecessor and a model of its kind.”

- John M. Duffy, Harvard University

“This second volume of the University of Michigan’s Greek manuscript collection features eighty-four detailed descriptions—including twenty-three previously unknown discoveries—and spans a millennium of history. Nadezhda Kavrus-Hoffmann’s rigorous scholarship makes this richly illustrated catalogue an indispensable triumph for researchers and bibliophiles alike.”

- Stratis Papaioannou, University of Oxford

“Kavrus-Hoffmann’s expertise in Greek texts, codicology, and paleography makes her uniquely qualified to compose these entries for the Greek manuscripts of the University of Michigan library at Ann Arbor. The author’s mastery is reflected in each entry, as well as the appendices, rendering these volumes invaluable for the motivated amateur as well as the advanced scholar. The quality of the plates is also superb.”

- Kathleen Maxwell, Santa Clara University
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