Photius’ Library has been transmitted to us in two independent manuscripts: Marc. gr. 450 (end of the 9th cent.) and 451. Much scholarly attention has been devoted to Marc. gr. 450, with increasingly substantial results in the last few decades. On the contrary, ms. Marc. gr. 451 has never been studied from a modern codicological and palaeographical perspective. This article provides a new codicological and palaeographical description of the Marc. gr. 451. It will be argued that this codex has been penned by six hands, not three, as previously assessed, and is datable to the first decades of the 12th century – even though it is not possible to exclude the very last decades of the 11th. In particular, this paper investigates whether or not one of the six scribes might be identified as a «leading scholar», and whether or not they might belong to a «reading circle».
Ancora su testimoni della Biblioteca foziana: sulle mani del Marc. gr. 451
LOSACCO, MARGHERITA
2014
Abstract
Photius’ Library has been transmitted to us in two independent manuscripts: Marc. gr. 450 (end of the 9th cent.) and 451. Much scholarly attention has been devoted to Marc. gr. 450, with increasingly substantial results in the last few decades. On the contrary, ms. Marc. gr. 451 has never been studied from a modern codicological and palaeographical perspective. This article provides a new codicological and palaeographical description of the Marc. gr. 451. It will be argued that this codex has been penned by six hands, not three, as previously assessed, and is datable to the first decades of the 12th century – even though it is not possible to exclude the very last decades of the 11th. In particular, this paper investigates whether or not one of the six scribes might be identified as a «leading scholar», and whether or not they might belong to a «reading circle».
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