Online catalogue of the Greek manuscripts from Holkham Hall, Bodleian Library
Holkham Hall in Norfolk houses a renowned library built up mainly between 1712 and 1718 by Thomas Coke, later first Earl of Leicester, when on his Grand Tour of Europe. Coke acquired over 700 manuscripts, of which 118 were in Greek. As the result of transactions in 1954, 1956 and 1981, the Greek manuscripts came to the Bodleian Library in Oxford. Ranging in date from the 10th to the 17th century and including patristic and Byzantine as well as classical texts, most of them are not known to specialists. With the support of the A. G. Leventis Foundation, Dr Dimitrios Skrekas has examined the manuscripts in the collection and written full draft descriptions, while support from the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research has allowed Dr Skrekas to be trained in TEI encoding, so that the manuscripts be made accessible online. Full descriptions of the manuscripts in the collection have been uploaded to the new Bodleian online manuscript catalogue – an invaluable research tool.
Grants given:
2015, 2016, 2018, 2019
