oa The Ancient Lexica to the Corpus Dionysiacum

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The Lexicon entitled ἑρμηνεία λέξεων κατὰ στοιχεῖον ἐμφερομένων τῇδε τῇ βίβλῳ τοῦ ἁγίου Διονυσίου (PG 4, cols 23-28) is by far the best attested of the early lexica on specific church fathers. It is present in most of the very earliest CD manuscripts, and has a number of interesting features: a marked absence of “Dionysian” language; lemmata which do not seem to be in the CD; and lemmata which bear clear marks of having once been scholia, but which do not now seem to be present as scholia in the manuscripts. It is possible that the lexicon predates the editio variorum proposed by Beate Regina Suchla: in this case it would be an indirect witness to the pre-archetype CD text. It is, therefore, worth studying more closely, so a critical edition is now being prepared, to replace Guillaume Morel’s edition of 1562. This edition should also help in the dating of the important Cyril lexicon, with which the CD lexicon apparently shares a number of entries.