MANUSCRIPTS FROM THE BYZANTINE LIBRARY OF THE MONASTERY ON THE GALESIOS MOUNTAIN, HELD IN THE STATE HISTORICAL MUSEUM (Preliminary observations)
The paper examines two Greek manuscripts dated to the fi rst half of the 10th century, Syn. Gr. 252 (Vlad. 122) and 11th century Syn. Gr. 157 (Vlad. 372) from the Synodal Greek collection of the State Historical Museum in Moscow, which were acquired in 1655 by Arseny Sukhanov in the monasteries of Mount Athos. These two codices originated from Galesios Mount, a monastic center north of Ephesus, in the period of its foundation and growth in the 11th century by the stylite St. Lazaros. Our article is the fi rst attempt to identify these manuscripts with one Byzantine monastic library after the works of B.L. Fonkitch, who has already reconstructed the structure of three Athonite libraries (Great Lavra, Vatopedi Monastery and Iviron Monastery). The memories about the origin of these two manuscripts «from Galesiot books» were kept even when the monastery was captured by the Turks at the beginning of the 14th century. Our work is based principally on the combination of palaeographic and codicological analysis of marginalia.