Peter Toth
Peter Toth earned his M.A. in Egyptology and Classics and his Ph.D. in Classics at the University of Budapest. After a ten-year curatorship of medieval manuscripts at the University Library Budapest, he had various research projects at The Warburg Institute and King’s College London. Between 2016 and 2024, he was Curator of Ancient and Medieval Manuscripts at the British Library, responsible for Codex Sinaiticus and all biblical manuscripts in the collection. As of 2024, he works at the Bodleian Library, as the Cornelia Starks Curator of Greek Collections. His main interest is in Classical and Medieval cultural interaction via translations of texts and ideas from one language and tradition to the other. Besides editions and studies of various Latin, Greek, and Syriac texts, his research sheds new light on the origin of texts like the Letters of St. Anthony of Egypt or the Pseudo-Bonaventurean Meditationes Vitae Christi. He has curated a number of exhibitions and displays, and has run various courses and presentations at the British Library and Oxford alike.