Library Catalogues
Catalogues of the Project Partners
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Munich: OPACplus
The OPACplus of the Bavarian State Library Munich contains entries from the entire holdings relevant to Byzantine Studies. You can search for titles of books, periodicals and other media, but as a rule articles from periodicals and serials can not be queried. A Special Subject Catalogue is being compiled
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Munich: Catalogues of Greek manuscripts
Catalogues and directories of Greek manuscripts: A.) Old catalogue of Greek manuscripts [Cod.graec. 1-580] drawn up by Ignatz Hardt, B.) Further older inventories and C.) Recataloguing of the Greek manuscripts.
Research Documentation Manuscripts
Catalogue of a collection of illuminated manuscripts and broadsides
Catalogue of Microforms of the Department of Manuscripts
German Archaeological Institute (DAI): Central Online Catalogue of the DAI (ZENON DAI) and Archeological Bibliography
The Central Online Catalogue ZENON DAI contains titles of books and articles from periodicals and serials (currently around 710.000 records) from nine DAI-Libraries, among them Rome, Athens, Istanbul and Madrid. You can search either the complete Central Catalogue as well as catalogues of the individual departments.
Via ZENON DAI three bibliographies (Archeological Bibliography) can be queried trough a Thesaurus Tree.
Further catalogues:
Argo
Central catalogue of the Greek National Documentation Centre with records of the Humanities Libraries in Greece, the Hellenic Academic Libraries as well as the Hellenic Public Libraries.
Athens, American and British School at Athens (AMBROSIA)
The Central Online Catalogue of the Blegen and Gennadius Libraries of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens and the Libraries of the British School at Athens
Athens, National Library of Greece (NLG): OPAC
The NLG develops and maintains the national collection, which includes material that is produced in Greece as well as material that is produced abroad, but is connected with Greece in any language and form.
Berlin, Manuscripta Mediaevalia
The Manuscript-Forum contains entries of more than 60.000 manuscripts in German as well as other languages
Birmingham, University: Library Catalogue
Numerous titles relevant to Byzantine Studies can be found in the library catalogue of the University of Birmingham.
Cassino, Università degli Studi: PYLE
Lists of printed and digititized catalogues of manuscripts and databases.
Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana
The Library holds around 11,000 manuscripts and about 2,500 papyri. Lorenzo il Magnifico (1449-92), grandson of the library’s founder Cosimo de'Medici, was especially eager to acquire Greek manuscripts.
Istanbul, Suna Kiraç Library, Koç University
In the catalogue of Koç University, Istanbul you will find a great number of titles relevant to Byzantine Studies, Istanbul etc. in Turkish as well as other languages.
London, British Library (BL): Manuscripts Catalogue
For the period 500 to 1500 AD the manuscript catalogue of the British Library contains more than 1.350 Greek-language entries.
Milano, Biblioteca Ambrosiana
It was the founder of the library, Ambrosiana, Cardinal Federico Borromeo, who at the beginning of the 17th century started the collection of Latin as well as Greek and Oriental manuscripts; today the library holds around 35.000 manuscripts and more than 2.100 incunabula.
Munich, Ludwig-Maximilians-University: Catalogue of the History Departmental Library
The catalogue of the History Department (Historicum) contains literature relevant to Byzantine Studies, Late Antiquity, Byzantine History of Art and Modern Greek Studies. The oldest university institute for Byzantine Studies is situated at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University.
Munich, Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte (ZI): Catalogue
The catalogue also contains entries of articles from periodicals and serials relevant to Byzantine History of Art amongst others.
New York, Columbia University: Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library
Literature relevant to Byzantine Architecture and History of Art can be searched through the catalogue of the Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library.
New York, Columbia University Libraries: Digital Scriptorium
The image database of medieval and renaissance manuscripts unites scattered resources from many institutions. The descriptions of the manuscripts are accompanied by digitalization of selected pages
Paris, National Library of France (BnF): Manuscripts - Occident
A digitised version of the catalogue contains entries of more than 5.000 Greek manuscripts.
Paris, Collège de France: Byzantine Library
The Byzantine Library holds literature relevant to Byzantine culture in general, complemented by special collections of Byzantine Epigraphy, Numismatics and Sigillography.
Sofia, University Library: Catalogue
If logged-in as “guest” the catalogue can be searched without further registration; you will find entries of titles relevant to Byzantine Studies in Bulgarian as well as in other languages.
Vatican, Catalogo Manoscritti della Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana
The Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana holds around 75.000 manuscripts as well as incunabula, early imprints, copper engravings and lithographs.
Venice, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana: Inventari e cataloghi (Codici greci)
The Biblioteca Marciana in Venice, which has received donations from Francesco Petrarca and Cardinal Bessarion (amongst others), holds one of the most significant collections of Latin, Greek and Oriental manuscripts.
Vienna, Austrian National Library (ÖNB)
The Austrian National Library holds around 55.000 manuscripts and about 8.000 incunabula.
Vienna, University Library: Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies Library
The catalogue covers the entire literature catalogued from 1996 to the present; the Vienna Central Catalogue of the University Library contains holdings from the years 1972-1991.
Washington, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library: Catalogue HOLLS
The Dumbarton Oaks Research Library collects materials to support scholarship in Byzantine studies, Pre-Columbian studies, and garden and landscape studies.
The general library collections contain more than 200.000 items in a variety of formats. All materials are non-circulating. The Rare Book Collection contains more than 10.000 volumes, prints, drawings, photographs, and blueprints.
Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Library
The Herzog August Library, Wolfenbüttel, offers its manuscript catalogue in a digitised version.
More Bibliographies and Online Catalogues can be found in in KIRKE.
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