Lectures/May 15, 2015

Greek Libraries in the Ottoman Empire

Greek Libraries in the Ottoman Empire (Bibliothèques grecques dans l’Empire ottoman), University of Crete, May 26–27, 2015

As part of the project ANR i-Stamboul, the Greek Department of the IRHT has organized in partnership with the University of Crete a symposium dedicated to Greek libraries in the Ottoman Empire.

It will bring together a dozen contributions on books and Greek manuscripts of the post-Byzantine period, their owners, their readers and their history.

The publication of the proceedings will be together with that of the second symposium held as part of project i-Istanbul (Istanbul, 14-15 October 2015) and entitled Around the Holy Trinity of Halki: Greek Manuscripts in Constantinople 1453 (Autour de la Sainte-Trinité de Chalki : manuscrits grecs à Constantinople après 1453).

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