UPDATED! The Gennadius Library's Clean Monday celebration in New York City will have a change of venue this year to Kellari Taverna and will be held on February 27, 2012. Festivities begin at 6:30 pm. and feature great food for the Lenten season, an auction, music and dancing! Read details here.
Manuscripts
Manuscripts in the Library’s collections include those dealing with: theology, including special Orthodox liturgies and treatises on Greek church music; ancient Greek and Byzantine literature; Greek grammarians; archaeology; geography and travels; history; genealogy; and Modern Greece. Here are also included some private archival collections. The first is the collection of Jean Denis Barbier du Bocage (1760-1825), a French geographer and philologist. Next is part of the collection of Frederic Francois Guillaume de Vaundroncourt (1772-1845) a baron and French General. Finally, seven items from the sale of the library of Demetrius Rhodokanakis, who laid claim to the title of Prince. There are also a number of oriental manuscripts.