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Document Details : Title: La lettre upsilon du Florilège Coislin Author(s): MAKSIMCZUK, José P. , VAN DEUN, Peter , VENETSKOV, Maxim Journal: Byzantion Volume: 89 Date: 2019 Pages: 359-395 DOI: 10.2143/BYZ.89.0.3287076 Abstract : This article offers the editio princeps of the Letter Upsilon of the Byzantine Florilegium Coislinianum (9th-10th century). Seven manuscripts contain the full text of this section of the anthology; nine witnesses preserve only fragments. The Letter Upsilon consists of 4 chapters containing 15 fragments in total. Sources have been the Bible (Psalms, Proverbs, Job, Wisdom, Sirach, Abdiah, Isaiah and Jeremiah), the De octo spiritibus malitiae of Evagrius Ponticus, Oration 44 of Gregory of Nazianzus, the omnipresent De opificio hominis of Gregory of Nyssa, the Homilies on Lazarus of John Chrysostom and the Ladder of John Climacus. The critical edition is accompanied by a philological introduction divided in three main parts. The first one explores the links between the manuscripts that contain the Letter Upsilon of the Florilegium Coislinianum. The second deals in detail with a newly discovered twelfth-century witness, namely, the Parisinus, Coislinianus gr. 262. The third discusses the relationship between the FC and other two Byzantine anthologies, i.e., the Florilegium Vaticanum and the Ps.-Maximus’ Loci Communes. |
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