The Acknowledgements page with an account of the origin, development, and completion of the collaborative translation of Schmid's "Studien zur Geschichte des Griechischen Apokalypse-Textes: Die Alten Staemme."
The article (a) presents the identification of the priest Georgios, owner of the manuscript Princeton, Garrett MS 14 (a. 955) and author of a poem to the Virgin (f. 295) with the priest Georgios Lolenos who wrote an invocation on Serd.... more
The article (a) presents the identification of the priest Georgios, owner of the manuscript Princeton, Garrett MS 14 (a. 955) and author of a poem to the Virgin (f. 295) with the priest Georgios Lolenos who wrote an invocation on Serd. Dujčev, Cod. D. gr. 221, f. 67v (10th century), and (b) identifies the last folio of the two missing bifolia in codex Laur. 9.21 (14th century), the only containing the Vita and the Akolouthia of SS David, Symeon and George of Mytilene, with f. 1 of codex Laur. 10.28 (16th century).
ENGLISH ABSTRACT On the example of six scribes whose names and dates of activity are known, this article discusses the styles of calligraphy current in Constantinople during the second half of Alexis Comnenus' reign (c. 1100-1118),... more
ENGLISH ABSTRACT
On the example of six scribes whose names and dates of activity are known, this article discusses the styles of calligraphy current in Constantinople during the second half of Alexis Comnenus' reign (c. 1100-1118), compares these styles to those of the preceding period, and proposes a socio-political explanation for their different character.
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A partir de los casos de seis escribas cuyos nombres y fechas de actividad son conocidos, este artículo discute los estilos de caligrafía presentes en Constantinopla durante la segunda mitad del reinado de Alejo Comneno (ca. 1100-1118), compara estos estilos con los del período precedente y propone una explicación socio-política de su carácter diferente.
in: M.-H. Blanchet, M.-H. Congourdeau et D. I. Mureşan (ed.), Le Patriarcat Oecuménique de Constantinople et Byzance hors frontiers (1204–1586) (Proceedings of the 22nd International Congress of Byzantine Studies in Sofia (Bulgaria),... more
in: M.-H. Blanchet, M.-H. Congourdeau et D. I. Mureşan (ed.), Le Patriarcat Oecuménique de Constantinople et Byzance hors frontiers (1204–1586) (Proceedings of the 22nd International Congress of Byzantine Studies in Sofia (Bulgaria), August 2011) Paris 2014 (Dossiers Byzantins 15) pp. 99-131 ISBN: 978-2-9530655-7-2
[PDF available upon request.] The premise of this study is that punctuation marks in Byzantine manuscripts reflect, at a granular level, how Byzantine readers made sense of Greek texts. Focusing on a single passage in Thucydides’s History... more
[PDF available upon request.] The premise of this study is that punctuation marks in Byzantine manuscripts reflect, at a granular level, how Byzantine readers made sense of Greek texts. Focusing on a single passage in Thucydides’s History (II.42.4), which the Byzantines considered among the most difficult works of ancient Greek prose, I analyze 153 punctuation marks across eight different manuscripts. According to my analysis, the subtle semantic distinctions indicated by these punctuation marks suggest, contrary to long-standing scholarly opinion, that Byzantine readers had a nuanced and sensitive understanding of the Athenian historian’s complex style. I also present some general remarks on punctuation in Byzantine manuscripts, expanding on the prevailing view that it functioned first and foremost to guide the voice in reading aloud.
