Pinakes | Πίνακες

Résumé :

In the Farnese Demosthenes Neap. Bibl. Nat. II.E.13, which is in part an apograph of the exemplar of the patriarch Gregory of Cyprus Par. gr. 2998, there appears next to the first copyist of the manuscript (hand A) an anonymous collaborator who is denominated here as the «anonymous tau», and it is here argued that the copy of one of the most interesting codices of Plato in the Palaeologan period, Par. Coisl. 155, is to be attributed to him. In effect, aside from known copyists, various shadowy figures of the Palaeologan period, such as the «anonymous tau», likewise drew upon the patriarch’s codices on more than one occasion. The influence of both the intellectual activity and the exemplars created by and for the patriarch is to be discerned even in the apographs created by the «anonymous gamma» (an anonymous copyist thus named on account of the shape of his sickle-shaped gamma) and by the philologist John, who togethe worked on the copy of the Timaeus to be found within the codex Laur. Plut. 85.6. For this work they used as their antigraph the same Par. gr. 2998 that belonged to Gregory of Cyprus. Moreover, these same two copyists also made use of the same vetus, the Marc. gr. 434 [coll. 840], as the model for their copies of Lucian, which was transcribed by John in the Par. gr. 2954 and by the « anonymous gamma» in the Urb. gr. 118. It is also demonstrated here that the codex of Plato Neap. Bibl. Nat. III.E.15, which is textually tied to Laur. Plut. 85.6, was restored in the circle of Nicephorus Gregoras by the «anonymous G», who was a frequent collaborator of Gregoras himself.