Metadata: Manuscript Collection at Monastery of St Saviour in Old Jerusalem
Collection
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- British Library
- Holding institution (official language):
- British Library
- Postal address:
- 96 Euston Road London Greater London United Kingdom NW1 2DB
- Web address:
- http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/bldept/manuscr/index.html
- Email:
- Email: mss@bl.uk
- Reference number:
- EAP823/1
- Title:
- Manuscript Collection at Monastery of St Saviour in Old Jerusalem
- Title (official language):
- Manuscript Collection at Monastery of St Saviour in Old Jerusalem
- Date(s):
- 1510/1999
- Language:
- English
- Arabic
- Armenian
- Coptic
- French
- German
- Greek, Modern (1453-)
- Hebrew
- Italian
- Latin
- Portuguese
- Spanish; Castilian
- Syriac
- Turkish
- Extent:
- 273,814 tiff images
- Scope and content:
- The collection contains 553 codices and rotuli, dating from the 12th to the 20th century and written in eight languages: Ethiopic, Arabic, Armenian, Corali, Greek, Hebrew, Miniati, Latin, Italian, Spanish, Coptic and Syriac. The texts present great variety and contain theological and philosophical treatises, biblical and liturgical books, dictionaries, profane and religious poetry, collections of sermons, pilgrim accounts, and also cooking recipes and magic prayers. Among the books are also rare items, for instance texts written in Armenian and Arabic scripts but in Turkish language or the fragments of Byzantine manuscripts used for binding as the fly-leaves. A special group is made up by large size liturgical books with musical notations, produced for monastic choirs, as well as precious volumes lavishly decorated and illuminated with miniatures, initials and aniconic ornamentation. Research material of particular value consists of a variety of book covers (leather, textile, metal, decorative cardboards etc) representing diverse binding methods. As the whole, the collection presents a remarkably wide spectrum of Western and Eastern manuscript traditions: Christian, Islamic and Jewish.
- Archival history:
- The EAP823 project was funded by the Endangered Archives Programme.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Monastery of Saint Saviour (Hebrew: מנזר סן סלוודור) is a Catholic Franciscan monastery located on 1 Saint Francis Street, east of the New Gate in the Old City of Jerusalem. The site was purchased from the Georgian Orthodox Church in 1560 with permission by Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent of the Ottoman Empire, and the monastery was constructed in stages. The church building was erected in 1885, with renovation in 1985. The site includes a printing press, an organ workshop, a library and a Catholic school.
- Access points: locations:
- Jerusalem
- Subject terms:
- Bible
- Literature
- Literature--Novels, poetry, and plays
- Manuscripts
- Access, restrictions:
- You need to be a registered Reader in order to request items to a Reading Room.
- Finding aids:
- Online catalogue see http://searcharchives.bl.uk/IAMS_VU2:IAMS032-003420247Digital Version see https://eap.bl.uk/collection/EAP823-1Guide to Hebrew Collections see https://www.bl.uk/collection-guides/hebrew-collections
- Yerusha Network member:
- AIM25