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0645JUSTINUS MARTYR Apol.

1389HARPOCRATION Gramm.

1595PHILODEMUS Phil.

2042ORIGENES Theol.

2130ARETHAS Scr. Eccl. et Philol.

2642<ASTRAMPSYCHUS Magus> Onir.

2702Michael PSELLUS Epist., Polyhist., Phil., Hagiogr. et Theol.

2721Theodorus PRODROMUS Poeta et Polyhist.

2738CHRONOGRAPHIAE ANONYMAE Chronogr.

2772ACTA TIMOTHEI Hagiogr., Apocryph. et Acta

2933GERMANUS I Scr. Eccl.

3010Theodorus BALSAMON Scr. Eccl.

3024Constantinus STILBES Poeta et Rhet.

3036EUTHYMIUS Scr. Eccl.

3053JOANNES II Scr. Eccl.

3054JOANNES IV (vel V) Oxeïtes Scr. Eccl.

3059JOANNES X CAMATERUS Scr. Eccl.

3073Euthymius MALACES Scr. Eccl., Rhet. et Theol.

3077MICHAEL I CERULARIUS Theol. et Scr. Eccl.

3078MICHAEL III Epist., Theol. et Rhet.

3085NEOPHYTUS INCLUSUS Scr. Eccl.

3092Nicephorus BLEMMYDES Phil. et Theol.3093NICETAS Phil., Theol. et Scr. Eccl.

3099Nicetas STETHATUS Theol. et Hagiogr.

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A Recipe of a Delicious Byzantine Cake: Koliva

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A recipe of delicious Byzantine vegan food from a manuscript at the British Library:
One of our Byzantine Greek service books, a collection of lessons for the Saturdays and Sundays of Lent, contains a very special recipe: not only is it completely vegan, it is said to have been received directly from Heaven. The short note is preserved in a lection for the first Saturday of the Great Lent which records the miraculous revelation of the new recipe as follows.  “Koliva is wheat kernels boiled soft and sweetened with honey, sesame seeds, almonds, ground walnuts, cinnamon, pomegranate seeds, raisins and anise.' When the archbishop inquired who is the provider of the new recipe , his visitor simply answered, 'I am Theodore the Martyr of Christ whom he has now sent to you to reveal this and provide new food for his people.'Read here the whole story

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Thousands of free images of Byzantine art from the Met Museum

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All images of public-domain artworks in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection — about 375,000 — are now free for anyone to use however they may please.The museum announced on Tuesday that it had changed its open access policy to allow free, unrestricted use of any images of artworks in the public domain, using the license designation Creative Commons Zero, known as CC0.
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