Pinakes | Πίνακες

Résumé :

This paper studies the etymological explanations that accompany the glossaries of several Septuagint and New Testament books in the margins of ms. Par. gr. 2659 (ff. 154v–180r). Biblical glossaries, which in this and many other manuscripts are appended to the so-called lexicon of Cyril, were popular in Byzantium (but are largely ignored today). The marginal additions were taken from the Etymologicum Gudianum by the scribe of the Paris manuscript himself. Those that explain entries starting with α- to ζε- are transcribed and translated in the paper and compared with De Stefani’s edition of the Gudianum. This comparison allows us to comment on: the position of the additions in the biblical glossaries; the method used by the scribe; and the relations with the earliest transmission of the Gudianum and the textual tradition of Cyril’s lexicon in Terra d’Otranto in the early 12th century.