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Journal of Byzantine Studies, Vol. 72/2022 / Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik, Band 72/2022
Journal of Byzantine Studies, Vol. 72/2022 / Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik, Band 72/2022
No.:
72
Year of the volume:
2023
1. Auflage, 2023
Band 72 (des Journal of Byzantine Studies JOeB / Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik) umfasst ein breites Spektrum an philologischen und historischen Studien zu byzantinischen und graecoarabischen Themen; 11 der 15 Beiträge enthalten Ersteditionen oder kritische Neueditionen von griechischen und arabischen Texten, die in Übersetzung und mit Kommentar präsentiert werden. Davon dokumentieren sieben Beiträge die Rezeption und Auseinandersetzung der Byzantiner mit klassischen und frühchristlichen Autoren bzw. Themen (Euklid, Herodot, Georgios Pisides, Pollux, Tereus-Prokne-Philomela, Dionysius Exiguus, Gregor von Nazianz), die restlichen vier Editionsbeiträge behandeln Theodoros (?) Studites, Nikephoros Gregoras und Neilos Kabasilas, Ignatios Diakonos sowie arabische Eucharistie-Texte; zwei philologisch-paläographische Studien widmen sich einerseits der Aristoteles-Überlieferung (durch Demetrios Angelos), andererseits einer nochmaligen Frage des Titels/Namens Suda aufgrund eines Neufundes. Je eine Studie zur Numismatik (Münzprägung im 11./12. Jh. in Nordsyrien) und zur Koranrezeption in Byzanz (auf der Basis von Codex Vaticanus graecus 681) eröffnen weitere Einblicke in die byzantinische Kultur. Autoren der Beiträge sind F. Acerbi, J. Bértola, F. Bird, J. Cavarzeran, A. M. Cuomo, Ch. Gastgeber, M.-L. Goiana, J. Maksimczuk, M. Mushinskaya, C. Nuovo, A. Rigo, N. Schindel, F. Scognamiglio, A. Treiger und M. Ulbricht. Rezensionen zu aktuellen Neuerscheinungen runden den Band ab.
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Barlaam’s Paraphrase of Euclid, "Elements" II 1–10. A Critical Edition
The article presents a critical edition, with a translation and an introduction, of the arithmetical rewriting of Euclid,
Elements II 1–10, authored by the 14th-century scholar and polemicist Barlaam of Seminara, one of the two leading characters
in the Palamite and hesychast controversies. In this way, a further item of Barlaam’s scientific writings can now be read in a
critical edition. The present edition explains in detail the mathematical background of Barlaam’s work, describes all of its
manuscript witnesses, reconstructs a stemma codicum that does not require any lost witness, and pays due attention to the
diagrams that accompany the text.
Keywords: Euclid’s "Elements", Rewriting, Byzantine mathematics, Geometric Algebra, Barlaam of Seminara
Fabio Acerbi
Page 1 - 62 | doi: https://doi.org/10.1553/joeb72s1
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A First Critical Edition of the Cycle of Epigrams on Herodotus in the Margins of Manuscript Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 70.6 and Some of Its "Apographa"
The aim of this article is to offer the first critical edition of 11 poems (49 dodecasyllables) found in the margins of
10 manuscripts of Herodotus’ Histories. The edition is preceded by the description of the manuscripts and their relationships.
The article thus contributes to the study of Herodotus’ textual tradition, especially with regard to manuscripts recentiores. The
edition and translation of the poems, on the other hand, makes available texts that witness the reception of Herodotus in Byzantium,
as well as the Byzantine reading practices connected with writing poetry in the margins of manuscripts.
Keywords: Herodotus, Byzantine Reception, Textual Transmission, Epigrams, Marginalia
Julián Bértola
Page 63 - 96 | doi: https://doi.org/10.1553/joeb72s63
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A Critical Edition of Georgius Pisides, "In Sanctam Resurrectionem" with Introduction and Commentary
This paper presents a new critical edition of Pisides’ Easter poem, In Sanctam Resurrectionem. The introduction
gives a probable date of the poem’s first performance, a discussion of its genre, a description of the five manuscript witnesses
to the poem (four extant, one destroyed), an analysis of the manuscript transmission and a brief description of modern scholarship
on the text of the poem. Alongside the newly-edited text is the first full translation of the poem into English. Finally, a
line-by-line commentary offers a detailed discussion of textual problems and some possible solutions, as well as presenting a
new interpretation of some of the more difficult lines in the poem based on literary parallels and biblical references.
Keywords: Georgius Pisides, Resurrection, New Creation, Disease, Heraclius Constantine, Par. Suppl. gr. 690
Frederick Bird
Page 97 - 124 | doi: https://doi.org/10.1553/joeb72s97
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Polluce in età paleologa: gli "excerpta" del "Marc. gr." Z. 490 e del "Vat." gr. 904
This article examines and provides a partial critical edition of an unedited collection of excerpts from Pollux’s Onomasticon
which can be found in two manuscripts: the Marc. gr. Z. 490 and the Vat. gr. 904. These excerpts, probably compiled
by a scholar of the early Palaeologan Renaissance, are not mere extracts from Pollux, but re-elaborate his text, adding definitions,
synonyms, short sentences, quotations from later writers (mostly from late antiquity or the Byzantine Age), grammatical
notes, brief explanations, and even a progymnasma. The article aims to analyse the making and determine the purpose of this
collection, and tries to study the relationship of these excerpts to other erudite works and lexica of the Palaeologan Age.
Keywords: Pollux, "Onomasticon", "Lexica", Atticism, Palaeologan Age
Jacopo Cavarzeran
Page 125 - 162 | doi: https://doi.org/10.1553/joeb72s125
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Tereus, Procne, and Philomela. An Annotated Edition of Newly Discovered Mythological Narrative
This article publishes an annotated edition of a previously unknown account of the myth of Procne and Philomela.
It is about a relatively long scholion on Soph. El. 147–149 preserved in the Moschopulean manuscript of Vienna, Österreichische
Nationalbibliothek (ÖNB), Phil. gr. 161 (Diktyon 71275) (= Xr), copied by Konstantinos ὁ Κετζᾶς (ho Ketzas) in
1412. The scholion will be examined in the context of the Moschopulean manuscripts of Sophocles. The narrative will be
compared with other Greek and Latin accounts of the myth of Procne and Philomela, emphasizing the characteristics of the
scholion. While direct parallels to other sources cannot be spotted and its origin remains unknown, Xr’s scholion displays
similarities to the Trikilinian scholia on Aristophanes’ Aves 212e, α and β (HOLWERDA 1991), Tzetzes’ scholion on Hesiod’s
Opera et Dies 568 Πανδιονίς (Pandionis; 566ter GAISFORD 1823), and with Eustathios’ Commentarii ad Homeri Odysseam (II
215,13 STALLBAUM 1826)
Keywords: Tereus, Procne, Philomela, Greek Mythology, Sophocles, Electra, Ajax, Scholia, Ioannes Tzetzes, Palaeologan Era, Maximos Planoudes, Manuel Moschopoulos, Demetrios Triklinios, Extra-Moschopoulean Scholia, Greek palaeography
Andrea Massimo Cuomo
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Die Ostertabelle des Dionysius Exiguus in griechischer Anwendung. Ein 532 Jahre-Zyklus süditalienischer Provenienz
In 525, Dionysius Exiguus created an Easter table which Beda Venerabilis completed for a full cycle of 532 years,
the period when the same lunar and solar day reappear. Dionysius based his calculation on an Alexandrian model. Starting with
the Alexandrian monk Annianos at the turn of the 5th century, the Byzantines already created Easter tables of 532 years, but these
tables are not preserved, and still existing Byzantine Easter tables had generally calculated only for the present or future 19 moon
cycle years. However, two manuscripts witness that the Latin Easter tables, based on Dionysius Exiguus, were adopted by Greeks
in a Latin-Greek mixed culture, supposedly in southern Italy. This Dionysian Easter table, which starts from 877 CE, is presented
here in a critical edition together with the accompanying texts on calculating the moon, sun and indiction and two letters informing
about the reason behind this table and its introduction. The equation with the Byzantine world year provides a sound basis
to check how the birth and crucifixion of Jesus Christ were dated.
Keywords: Dionysius Exiguus, Byzantine Computus, Easter Table, Paschalion, Byzantine Italy
Page 193 - 274 | doi: https://doi.org/10.1553/joeb72s193
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Theology of the Icon in Hymnographic Form: A Kanon and Four "Stichera" for the Second Council of Nicaea Attributed to (Theodore?) Stoudites
This article is dedicated to a kanon and four stichera for the Second Council of Nicaea (787), attributed by codex
Vind. theol. gr. 187 (c. an. 1500) to (Theodoros?) Stoudites. Although these hymnographic texts were published for the first
time in 1992—on the basis of the Viennese codex, alongside a Church Slavonic translation of earlier date than this Greek
witness—, they have attracted scarcely any attention in the scholarship on Theodore the Stoudite. The present article offers a
new edition of the texts, based, in addition to Vind. theol. gr. 187, on two other Greek manuscript witnesses. The edition is
accompanied by an English translation and by an analysis of the hymns’ particularities of content and form, with a special
focus on their theological and philosophical concepts regarding the veneration of icons, and on the question of their authorship.
Keywords: Hymnography, Second Council of Nicaea, Veneration of Icons, Philosophical Terminology, Theodore the Stoudite
Maria-Lucia Goiana
Page 275 - 316 | doi: https://doi.org/10.1553/joeb72s275
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Demetrius Angelus’ Two Volumes of Aristotle’s "Organon": A Multilayered Set
This article probes into the Organon manuscripts Oxford, Bodleian Library, Auct. T.4.23 (Misc. 261) and Barocci
87, which belonged to the physician and scribe Demetrius Angelus (Constantinople, 15th c.). It discusses those codices’ formation,
circulation as a multi-layered set of two volumes, and later modifications. Finally, the paper examines the First Analytics
text in the Baroccianus and places it in the pertinent place within the tradition of this treatise.
Keywords: Demetrius Angelus, "Organon", palaeography, Textual Criticism, manuscript studies
José Maksimczuk
Page 317 - 355 | doi: https://doi.org/10.1553/joeb72s317
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John Geometres’ Scholia on Gregory of Nazianzus’ Oration 1
The oeuvre of John Geometres, besides his literary works in verse and prose which were famous among the Byzantines
and attract a great deal of attention in modern scholarship, includes much lesser-known works of an exegetical genre, in
particular commentaries on several homilies of Gregory of Nazianzus. The present article contains a publication of Geometres’
scholia on Or. 1 in two considerably different versions, from cod. Vaticanus Palatinus gr. 402 and cod. Mosquensis Synodalis
gr. 147 (53). The second version is largely a stylistic reworking of the first; both concentrate on the rhetorical and theological
exegesis of Gregory’s text, but differ in pragmatic orientation. It is also shown that this work of Geometres served as one of the
main sources for Nicetas of Heraclea’s commentary on Or. 1.
Keywords: John Geometres, rhetoric, Gregory of Nazianzus’ Oration 1, Commentators of Gregory of Nazianzus’ Orations, Nicetas of Heraclea, Cod. Vaticanus Palat. gr. 402, Cod. Mosquensis Synod. 147
Maria Mushinskaya
Page 357 - 415 | doi: https://doi.org/10.1553/joeb72s357
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Un’ultima "teichotaphromachia" per il lessico "Suda"
A last teichotaphromachia for the Suda lexicon: The main subject of this paper is the long-debated title of the Suda
lexicon, and its aim is threefold. In the first section, this article proposes a re-examination of the manuscript tradition in order
to outline better the textual situation concerning the double form Suda/Suida. In this way, it will be shown that the latter
stemmed from the manuscript copied by Eustathius, Marc. gr. 448. Secondly, this paper aims at sketching an itemized overview
of the multifarious theories developed during the 20th century to explain the meaning of the term. Finally, taking into
account the previous sections, the analysis focuses on the occurrences of the substantive Σοῦδα/Σουίδα in the indirect tradition
(Eustathius and Stephanus), to which a new learned testimony related to Johannes Tzetzes might be added. The description of
Par. gr. 2625 f. Av is given at the end as an appendix.
Keywords: "Suda" Lexicon, Byzantine Lexica, Codex Par. gr. 2625
Claudia Nuovo
Page 417 - 444 | doi: https://doi.org/10.1553/joeb72s417
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La professione di fede di Niceforo Gregoras e la risposta di Nilo Cabasilas
This article presents the edition of Nicephorus Gregoras’ profession of faith and the response by Nilus Cabasilas,
reconstructed on the basis of the manuscript Athos Dionysiou 194. The two texts were known thanks to the old and defective
edition by G. Papamichail (1913), based on a 15th-century copy of Dionysiou’s manuscript (Patmos 428). The edition of the
two short texts is introduced by a description of the manuscripts, a reconstruction of dating and circumstances in which the
texts were composed and an analysis of their contents.
Keywords: Nicephorus Gregoras, Nilus Cabasilas, Gregorius Palamas, Professions of faith, Synodikon of the Orthodoxy
Page 445 - 457 | doi: https://doi.org/10.1553/joeb72s445
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Gab es eine komnenische Münzprägung in Nordsyrien?
The article discusses two groups of copper coins of Alexios I Komnenos. The first is a follis type that has been
commonly attributed to Thessalonike (HENDY, Dumbarton Oaks Catalogue 19). It is suggested, on the basis of typology, style,
and some indications of provenances, that it was in fact struck in Edessa (Şanlıurfa). The second group considered—imitations
of tetartera from Thessalonike (HENDY, Dumbarton Oaks Catalogue 38 and 40)—is sometimes overstruck in coins of the Syrian
Selçuks; it is tentatively attributed to Laodikeia (Latakia). This hypothesis is less certain than the attribution to Edessa mentioned
above.
Keywords: Byzantine numismatics, Alexios I Comnenus, Comnenian Coinage, Crusader Coinage, Edessa, Laodikeia
Page 459 - 477 | doi: https://doi.org/10.1553/joeb72s459
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“Ascolta, ragazzo, il mio consiglio”: l’acrostico parenetico di Ignazio Diacono, e un altro acrostico di incerta attribuzione
“Listen to my advice, my boy: the paraenetic acrostichon by Ignatios the Deacon, and another one uncertain”: The
paper offers a new critical edition of the dodecasyllabic acrostichon by Ignatios the Deacon based upon the seven extant manuscripts
written within the 16th century. The brief paraenetic poem is a combination of form and function: the twenty-four lines
have a mnemonic purpose directed to both listeners and readers, and the sententiae which every line is constituted of are the
moral vademecum for any good Christian, whether a pupil or a reader. The appendix offers a new, if provisional, critical text of
the acrostichon Ἄνω πτέρωσον (Anō pterōson)—whose ascription to Ignatios is rather uncertain—in the light of a new witness,
i.e., Marc. Gr. Z. 491 of the 13th century.
Keywords: Ignatios the Deacon, "Acrostichon", Paraenetic Poetry, Dodecasyllabic Poetry
Federica Scognamiglio
Page 479 - 509 | doi: https://doi.org/10.1553/joeb72s479
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The Eucharist in Eleventh-Century Jerusalem: New Evidence on the
Hagiopolite Communion Rite from Arabic Christian Sources
The article focuses on eucharistic practices in the Patriarchate of Jerusalem prior to Byzantinization. An analysis of
a crucial testimony from Cardinal Humbert of Silva Candida’s Adversus graecorum calumnias and a variety of Arabic Christian
sources—the Martyrdom of Anthony Rawḥ, Ṣāliḥ ibn Saʿīd’s Marginal Notes, and Elias of Nisibis’s Book of Demonstration—
confirm that by the eleventh century, the Melkite Church in Jerusalem had abandoned the ancient practice of receiving
communion separately in two kinds (the consecrated Host in the hand and the Blood from the chalice) in favour of receiving
communion simultaneously in both kinds. Yet, in contradistinction to the Constantinopolitan practice of mixing both in the
chalice, in Jerusalem the pre-intincted consecrated Host was taken by the celebrant from the paten and placed directly into the
communicant’s mouth. The evidence of the Martyrdom of Anthony Rawḥ further suggests that this practice arose in the late
ninth or early tenth centuries.
Keywords: Orthodox Liturgy, Patriarchate of Jerusalem, Hagiopolite Communion Rite, Eucharist, Humbert of Silva Candida, Arabic Christian Literature
Alexander Treiger
Page 511 - 532 | doi: https://doi.org/10.1553/joeb72s511
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Nachweis der Existenz einer vollständigen und schriftlichen Vorlage der griechischen Koranübersetzung. Eine philologische Untersuchung des Codex Vaticanus graecus 681
Evidence of the existence of a complete and written original of the Greek translation of the Qurʾān. A philological
examination of the ms. Vat. gr. 681: The article explores the Greek translation of the Qurʾān available to Nicetas of Byzantium
(9th/10th century). It presents a philological examination of his Ἀνατροπὴ τοῦ Κορανίου (‘Refutation of the Qurʾān’) preserved
in the manuscript Vat. gr. 681. It specifies the character of the original Qurʾānic translation that Nicetas used. The paper argues
that there was a complete and full translation into Greek of the Qurʾān which was available to Nicetas in its entirety. It furthermore
examines whether the translation was transmitted in a written or oral form and concludes that Nicetas used a written
version of the Greek Qurʾān. In addition, through a comparison of the Greek translation, as preserved in Nicetas’ work and
therefore called Coranus Graecus, and the Arabic Qurʾānic text, evidence is given that the Arabic copy of the Qurʾān, which
has been used by the translator(s), was itself a written text, too. Finally, the study offers a perspective on the question of
whether the Greek translation of the Qurʾān was based on the nowadays widespread Qurʾānic reading of Ḥafṣ ʿan ʿĀṣim or
whether hints for variant readings are documented in the Coranus Graecus.
Keywords: Greek Translation of the Qurʾān, "Coranus Graecus", Nicetas of Byzantium, Vat. gr. 681, Anatropē tou Koraniou (‘Refutation of the Qurʾān’), Christian-Muslim relations
Manolis Ulbricht
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Corpus Fontium Historiae Byzantinae
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978-3-7001-9335-7, Journal, softcover, 31.03.2023
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