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 The
nucleus of the collection consists of books which
have been preserved from the rich library
of the Flanghinis College, about 2,000 volumes
produced by the Greek printing-houses of Venice from
the 16th to the 18th century.
Most of these old books come from the printing houses
of Glykis and Theodosiou, and are mainly ecclesiastical
works and school texts.
However, there are also printed books in demotic Greek
(works of Cretan literature, verse romances etc.).
The new books cover the areas of Byzantine and Post-Byzantine
history and literature, the history of Greek territories
under Venetian domination, as well as Italian and
European history and literature. In addition, the
library holds the most important Greek periodicals.
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 The
Institute has a collection of 41 Greek manuscripts.
Of particular interest are the three illuminated parchment
manuscripts of the Gospels, of the Byzantine period (12th,
13th and 15th centuries respectively), the famous fourteenth-century
manuscript of pseudo-Callisthenes’ romance of Alexander
the Great, with its 250 miniatures, and the Prothesis
or Parrhesia of St George, a parchment volume in which
from 1630 on the names of the church’s benefactors
were recorded so that they could be mentioned during mass.
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