RT Article
T1 The Most Ancient Greek Manuscripts of the Ladder of John Climacus

JF Scrinium
VO 12
IS 1
SP 368
OP 374
A1 Popova, Tatiana G.
LA English
PB Brill
YR 2016
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1562245783
AB The Byzantine hand-written tradition of the Ladder of Divine Ascent has poorly been studied. The first step in this direction should be the systematic description of all surviving Greek manuscripts of this book. According to the counting of the author, not less than 511 Greek manuscripts from the eighth to the nineteenth century with text of the Ladder were kept. This article is dedicated to the 35 most ancient books, dated from 8th to 10th century. The most ancient Greek manuscripts of the Ladder are available in the libraries of not less than 8 countries (Italy, Greece, Egypt, Russia, England, Germany, France and Israel (Jerusalem).

K1 Byzantine monasticism
 : manuscripts
 : libraries
 : Ladder of Divine Ascent
 : John Climacus

DO 10.1163/18177565-00121p23