Η βιβλιοθήκη του Νικολάου Καρατζά και οι περιπέτειες τοϋ χειρογράφου Paris. Suppl. Gr. 1375
Part of : Ελληνικά : φιλολογικό, ιστορικό και λαογραφικό περιοδικό σύγγραμμα ; Vol.49, No.1, 1999, pages 61-72
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The Library of Nikolqos Karatzas and the Vicissitudes of Manuscript Taris. Suppl. Gr. 1375-
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Nikolaos Karatzas (ci. 1705 - post 1786) was a scholar and collector of manuscripts, who assembled a rich library of printed books and particularly manuscript codices in Constantinople. This collection began to be dispersed on his death. Research is attempting to locate the manuscripts which made up the colection, not merely to reconstitute a picture of the library as it was, but also because the codices contain a host of mainly linguistic information which Karatzas collected and recorded on the manuscripts he acquired. However, the sole criterion for identifying the manuscripts which constituted his collection is his handwriting, since Karatzas was not in the habit of making a note of his ownership, nor, in the cases where he himself wrote the codex, of writing a bibliography. This study shows that manuscript Paris. Suppl. Gr. 1375 once belonged to the library of Karatzas. It is an autograph codex by Cesare Daponte and contains his work Έξήγησις της θείας λειτουργίας (Exegesis of the Divine Liturgy). The study identifies a number of people who were at various stages owners of the manuscript, but its link with Karatzas is based on traces of his hand which are preserved on the onglet of the binding. This evidence also gives rise to the hypothesis that Karatzas owned his own book-binding workshop. The Parisian manuscript also reveals an aspect of the relationship linking Karatzas to Cesare Daponte and, finally, reinforces our impression that some manuscripts from this rich library also found their way into the Frederic North collection.
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