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![Sinai. Interior of the famous library [Monastery of St. Catherine] / American Colony, Jerusalem.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE4OTgvMDEvMDEvc2luYWktaW50ZXJpb3Itb2YtdGhlLWZhbW91cy1saWJyYXJ5LW1vbmFzdGVyeS1vZi1zdC1jYXRoZXJpbmUtYW1lcmljYW4tY29sb255LTY0MC5qcGc%3D/40/49/webp "Sinai. Interior of the famous library [Monastery of St. Catherine] / American Colony, Jerusalem.")
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Sinai. Interior of the famous library Monastery of St. Catherine American Colony, Jerusalem
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Title from: Catalogue of photographs made by the American Colony ... 1914.
Identified as Monastery of St. Catherine based on captions for negatives with neighboring numbers.
The library of Saint Catherine Monastery holds 3,306 manuscripts (including 160 plus palimpsests, i.e. recycled manuscripts), 8,000 old books (including 7,000 written in Greek and 957 early prints) and 5,000 plus modern books, in addition to the monastery's archive from mid-15th century CE. Two-thirds of the manuscripts are written in Greek, while the rest are written in Arabic/Arabic-Islamic, Syriac, Georgian and Slavonic, in addition to Armenian, Persian, Coptic, Hebrew, Ethiopian, Latin and Polish. The early prints are written in the same previous languages, in addition to Turkish Ottoman. There were early attempts to catalogue the manuscripts from mid-19th to mid-20th centuries CE (not limited to): N. Krylov and F. Sarruf of the Russian bishop Porfirij Uspenskij expedition catalogued the Arabic manuscripts in 1850 CE; Victor Gardthausen the German scholar catalogued the Greek manuscripts in 1886 CE based on the works of Antonin the Russian priest in 1870 CE; Tsagareli and other Russian scholars catalogued 108 Georgian manuscripts in 1880s CE; Agnes Smith Lewis the Scottish scholar catalogued 276 Syrian manuscripts and discovered Codex Syriacus from 5th century CE (Sinai Syriac ms. 30, Palimpsest: Lives of Women Saints in 779 CE) and her sister Margaret Gibson catalogued 628 Arabic manuscripts in 1892 CE; Mont Sinai Expedition by The American Foundation of for the Study of Man (on behalf of the Library of Congress) and Farouk I University of Alexandria microfilmed 1,687 selected manuscripts and photographed 1,284 illuminations from 113 manuscripts in 1949 CE (the expedition discovered Codex Arabicus from 9th century CE and Codex 'Georgian?'). The fire of the chapel of St. George uncovered around 3,000 hidden items 'New Finds' on May 26, 1975 CE, including 12 folios/24 fragments of Codex Sinaiticus from 4th century CE (where 347, 43 and 6 of the 730 original folios are held by the British Library, Leipzig University Library and National Library of Russia in Saint Petersburg respectively), 10 complete manuscripmanuscripts and 50 incomplete codices. Among the most precious findings are Mark's Gospel from 6th century CE, John Climacus text from 7th (8th?) century CE and a copy of Homer's Iliad from 8th-9th centuries CE. (A. Shams, Sinai Peninsula Research, 2018)
Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
The G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection is a source of historical images of the Middle East. The majority of the images depict Palestine (present-day Israel and the West Bank) from 1898 to 1946. Most of the Library of Congress collection consists of over 23,000 glass and film photographic negatives and transparencies created by the American Colony Photo Department and its successor firm, the Matson Photo Service. The American Colony Photo Department in Jerusalem was one of several photo services operating in the Middle East before 1900. Catering primarily to the tourist trade, the American Colony and its competitors photographed holy sites, often including costumed actors recreating Biblical scenes. The firm’s photographers were residents of Palestine with knowledge of the land and people that gave them an advantage and made their coverage intimate and comprehensive. They documented Middle East culture, history, and political events from before World War I through the collapse of Ottoman rule, the British Mandate period, World War II, and the emergence of the State of Israel. The Matson Collection also includes images of people and locations in present-day Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, Iraq, and Turkey. Additionally, the firm produced photographs from an East African trip. The collection came to the Library of Congress between 1966 and 1981, through a series of gifts made by Eric Matson and his beneficiary, the Home for the Aged of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Diocese of Los Angeles (now called the Kensington Episcopal Home).
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