Bøger af Anna Gioffreda

Das Buch stellt somit die erste umfassende Studie dar. Die Einleitung bietet zunächst eine eingehende Auseinandersetzung mit der handschriftlichen Überlieferung. Dann findet man darin Abschnitte zur Metrik und Sprache sowie zur Technik der Umarbeitung des originalen Psalmentexts durch Philes. Darüber hinaus wird die Metaphrase in das übrige literarische Schaffen des Autors eingebettet. Im Zentrum des Buches steht die erste kritische Gesamtausgabe der Metaphrase (ca. 3.500 Verse), wobei der originale Psalmentext synoptisch angeordnet ist. Dieser wird auch die mittelalterlichen Varianten der Überlieferung aufweisen. Im Kommentar werden philologische und inhaltliche Besonderheiten diskutiert. Das Buch bietet nicht nur die erste Gesamtedition eines bislang kaum bekannten Texts, sondern versteht sich auch als wichtiger Beitrag für das Studium der Psalmenüberlieferung im griechischen Mittelalter.

This investigation sheds light on Isaac Argyrus and his scholarly work in 14th-century Constantinople on the basis of his book production: ita thus fills a major desideratum of cultural-historical, paleographical, and textual critical studies on the Palaeologan Age. After a brief introduction summing up the state of the art, the available textual sources are discussed in order to define the timeframe of Argyrus' life and to gather all information about him and his career. A complete lists of the manuscript collection copied by Argyrus introduces the pivotal aspect of the research: the analysis of Argyrus' handwriting in relation with the contemporary graphic context. Since Argyrus seems to have mastered two types of handwriting, a formal one and a cursive one, his graphic training must have been based on two differed models: on the one side the hand of his teacher, Nicephorus Gregoras, on the other one a writing style widespread in the XIV century, known as I I I a IYI I yI I . The paleographical point of view leads also to the reconstruction of Argyrus' scholarly enviroment, through a detailed description of hands of the scribes who collaborated with him. The writing procedure followed by Argyrus in the composition of his theological treatises eanbles a sound definition of his skills as author. Descriptive reports of each analysed codex conclude the volume. This book shows an example how the use and analysis of material sources, such as manuscripts, can give a innovative and fruitful perspective in investigation about the scholary writings practices in the Byzantine age.