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Tischendorf Collection

 

frontispiece from KT 306

The personal library of the biblical scholar Constantin von Tischendorf (1815-1874), who discovered and published Codex Sinaiticus. After his death in Leipzig the collection was purchased for £460, raised by Thomas Martin Lindsay and Alexander Balmain Bruce, for the Free Church College (subsequently Trinity College), Glasgow and transferred with the rest of the College Library to the University of Glasgow in 1974. Its 1,000 or so volumes include Tischendorf’s copies of most of his own publications, many early works on textual criticism, and a wide range of near eastern travelogues. There are also a few personal documents.

Finding aids and descriptions

  • All printed material is now incorporated into Library catalogue. Search the catalogue in the usual way or browse through a list of titles (warning! there are over 1,000 entries here)
  • For the papers and personal documents, see the listing for MS Gen 527
  • Browse through a list of titles by Tischendorf held by the Library (NB this listing includes some items from main library stock as well as Special Collections material)
  • Peter W. Asplin and Jack Baldwin, "Tischendorf’s library" in Matthew Black and Robert Davidson Constantin von Tischendorf and the Greek New Testament (Glasgow, 1981), pp. 79-89.
  • Konstantin von Tischendorf, Biblical scholar, 1815-1874: a commemorative exhibition of books from his library (Glasgow, 1974).