Nuovi manoscritti di Giacomo Episcopopulo. Saggio di un’indagine su alcuni collaboratori di Andrea Darmario

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The author presents some results of her research on Andreas Darmarios and his collaborators, especially at the Vatican Library. The author has published a critical edition of Priscus Panita’s Excerpta et fragmenta, mostly based upon Darmarian manuscripts of the Excerpta Constantiniana De legationibus (De Gruyter 2008). In this contribution she compares Jakobos’ handwriting with that of some newly discovered manuscripts and investigates the differences among Cretan scribes in the second half of the 16th century. The author argues that the Jakobos working at the Vatican Library in 1550 is not the same as the Episkopopoulos who was active as a scribe in the last quarter of the century and, perhaps, beyond. Plates are given from three new manuscripts: Vat. gr. 1442, Laur. Ashburnham 1283 and Warszawa, Biblioteka Narodowa, BOZ Cim. 142.

In September 2008, the seventh edition of the International Colloquium of Greek Palaeography (Madrid-Salamanca, 15-20 September 2008) celebrated the 300th anniversary of the Palaeographia Graeca, the pioneer work of the Benedictine Bernard de Montfaucon that established the fundamentals of the discipline. Papers by renowned specialists in the field contributed to the methodology of study and to our knowledge of Greek manuscripts, and opened new perspectives for the study of the Greek manuscripts preserved mostly in European libraries, taking into account new methodological approaches, the possibilities of online resources and the results of ongoing research projects.

The Proceedings published here include contributions by specialists from over ten different countries, dealing with palaeographical issues such as ancient capital and lower-case lettering, writing and books in the Macedonian, Comnenian and Palaeologan periods, and Greek scribes and ateliers in the Renaissance (especially in manuscripts from the Iberian Peninsula). Many contributors also take a codicological approach and consider the material aspects of the codex, as well as other new research techniques. Finally, some papers deal with the book as object and how this relates to its content, as well as with the history of texts.

The International Colloquia of Greek Palaeography are organized by the International Committee of Greek Palaeography, presided by Prof. Dieter Harlfinger. The seventh edition payed tribute to the memory of the late Jean Irigoin, who died in 2006.