Phase two of the British Library’s project to digitise all of its ca. 1,000 Greek manuscripts is now well under way. This phase (also generously funded by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation) will digitise and make publicly available a further 250 manuscripts, adding to the 284 manuscripts digitised in phase one. We are currently about half way through this second phase and plan to publish the digitised manuscripts in batches during the rest of this year on our Digitised Manuscripts viewer.
A new batch of manuscripts has now been published online, and contains 24 manuscripts ranging in date from the tenth to the nineteenth centuries. They include a group of illustrated medieval manuscripts of the gospels, formerly owned by the celebrated English physician and book collector Anthony Askew (fl. 1699–1774), acquired by the British Museum in 1775. Also included is a tenth-century parchment manuscript of Old Testament fragments (Add MS 20002), acquired in parts from Sinai by Constantin von Tischendorf (1815–1874) during his second journey to the East in 1853, which came to the British Museum in 1854. Another part of this manuscript is housed in the Bodleian Library at Oxford (Bodleian Auct. T. infr. ii. 1). A further highlight is an eleventh-century manuscript of Symeon Metaphrastes’s Saints’ Lives for December (Add MS 11870), which bears ownership marks of Cardinal Salviati (d. 1553) and Pope Pius VI (1775–1779).
In this first batch of 24 digitised MSS there are seven GNT MSS and two LXX MSS. I have compiled hyperlinks to these MSS, according to Greg.-Aland and Rahlfs numbers:
Greg.-Aland 44 = Add MS 4949
Greg.-Aland 109 = Add MS 5117
Greg.-Aland 438 = Add MS 5111
Greg.-Aland 438 = Add MS 5112
Greg.-Aland 439 = Add MS 5107
Greg.-Aland 449 = Add MS 4950
Greg.-Aland 449 = Add MS 4951
Greg.-Aland 502 = Add MS 19387
Greg.-Aland L320 = Add MS 21261
Rahlfs 509 = Add MS 20002
Rahlfs 1655 = Add MS 21030
More on the project here.
Other digitised MSS during this project here, here, here and here. Now, if I am correct, that makes a total of 71 GNT MSS in the British Library available online.