Library IvOC

The Institute's library is a continuation and extension of the collection of the Institute for Byzantine and Ecumenical Studies of the Assumptionist Fathers in Nijmegen. Part of the collection has been donated to the institute. IvOC staff have continued to expand the collection based on their various specialisations. 

Major topics in our collection are Eastern Christianity (in its three geographical areas: the Slavic part of Europe, Greece and its influences, and the Near East/North Africa) and ecumenism (between the Eastern and Western Christian churches).

The IvOC public collection is housed at the Radboud University Library.

Microfilm

IvOC has a collection of manuscripts on microfilm, including a collection of Syrian manuscripts, Charfeh, and from the Oriental Christian Microfilm Project at Brigham Young University led by Prof S. Kent Brown. Upon personal request, this microfilm collection can be consulted upon obtaining permission from the director of IvOC. If you would like access to this collection please contact IvOC.

Search the IvOC collection in the University Library

The public IvOC collection of over 30,000 books and more than 40 periodicals reflects the interests and contacts with the local Eastern churches of the Assumptionist Fathers, and increasingly those of later researchers in Nijmegen in the field of Eastern Christian studies. There is a large collection of Syriac books, of which the liturgical books of the Syriac-Catholic tradition are of particular value, and parts of the collection have their origins in contacts of the Greek Orthodox Church in Greece and Assumptionist communities in Romania, Bulgaria and Russia. Besides a substantial collection on liturgy and the study of icons, the collection contains a fair amount of Orthodox theology and studies of contemporary Orthodox communities, at home and in the diaspora.

To search the collection, simply use RUQuest; the Radboud University Library's search system.

Find your way in the IvOC collection

Explore the IvOC collection in the Central University Library, via our Quick Reference Guide: download here.