The aims of my long-term research project are to identify, explore, and analyse all Greek manuscripts that were brought to Europe by Constantin Tischendorf, a nineteenth-century German Biblical scholar and palaeographer. I aim at producing their detailed descriptions according to current methods practised in manuscript studies; and at researching histories of single manuscripts as well as the history of the whole collection, in order to establish their place in the broad historical context of production and circulation of books and texts in the Greek-speaking Near East.