‎BENESEVIC V.N. (ed.) & USPENSKIJ Porphyrius (comp.)‎
‎Catalogus codicum manuscriptorum Graecorum qui in monasterio Sanctae Catharinae in Monte Sina asservantur, Tomus I: Codices manuscripti notabiliores bibliotheca monasterii Sinaitici ejusque metochii Cahirensis, ab archimandria Porphyrio (Uspenskio) descripti‎

‎S.-Petersburg, Tipografija V.F. Kirsbauma 1911 [continuation of title : Porphirii descriptionem in ordinem redactam atque suppletam edidit], xxviii + 664pp., with 18 bl/w illustrations, Original 1911-edition, 26cm., original softcover, copy from the collection of the Belgian oriental scholar Arnold Van Lantschoot O.Praem. (with his signature and stamp), text is clean and bright except for few occasional foxing, This work was compiled by Porphyrius Uspenskij during his visit at the Saint Catherine's Monastery on Mount Sinai at around 1850 and as such it is the first science-based description of one of the world's oldest library collections, offering detailed descriptions of physical condition, script and textual context of the manuscripts. Only 60 years later it was published by the Russian byzantinist Benesevic, rare original 1911-St-Petersburg edition in good condition, [Original Russian title: "Opisanie greceskich rukopisej monastyrja svjatoj Ekaterinyna na Sinae, I: Zamecatelnyja rukopisi v bibliotheke Sinajskago monastyrja i Sinaedzuvanijskago podvorja (v Kaire, opisannyja archimandritom Porfiriem (Uskenskim). Pod red. i s dop. Benesevica"], weight: 1.1kg., X120583‎

Reference : X120583

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