scriptorium
Stoudios Monastery scriptorium
798–1204
attested. Attested by Theodore's writings and dated colophons.
Theodore the Studite reorganised this Constantinople monastery as a model community with rules for its scriptorium. Studite scribes helped spread the new minuscule book hand in the 9th century.
Place: Monastery of Stoudios · On the map
People
- Theodore the Studite (abbot from 798)
- Nicholas the Studite (scribe of the Uspenski Gospels)
- Theodore of Caesarea (scribe of the Theodore Psalter)
Manuscripts made here
Uspenski Gospels (835), earliest dated Greek minuscule manuscript
Kept now: St Petersburg, National Library of Russia, gr. 219
Theodore Psalter (1066)
Kept now: London, British Library, Add MS 19352