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Manuscript Greek 205

Manuscript Greek 205 is a lectionary containing the Gospel readings appointed for each day. A large and imposing volume, it was created in Constantinople in the third quarter of the eleventh century.

Folio 114 recto displays a headpiece enclosing the title, written in letters of gold. The Gospel according to Luke.

The […]

Dialogue with Trypho

The first English translation of Saint Justin Martyr’s Dialogue with Trypho was made by Henry Brown, Vicar of Nether-Swell in Gloucestershire. It was printed in two volumes in Oxford in 1755.

This beautifully bound copy has a dedicatory inscription on the title page of the first volume, “G H Wheler from the Revd Thomas […]

Greek New Finds Minuscule 134

Sinai manuscript Greek New Finds Minuscule 134 is an incomplete copy of the Ladder of Divine Ascent. It is written on parchment, and has been dated to the tenth or eleventh century. Saint John Climacus concludes his great work with a quotation of the last verse of the thirteenth chapter of First Corinthians, Νυνὶ […]

Bell Tower in Full Sun

A little later in the morning, the bell tower is in full sun, and the sunlight begins to reach the mountains behind.

First Sunlight on the Bell Tower

In October, the first rays of sunlight strike the south side of the bell tower.