The Florilegium Coislinianum, from which we are editing the chapter dealing with words beginning with the letter ?, is a large Byzantine anthology, dating back to the 9th-10th cent. Its manuscript tradition has been exhaustively explored for the first time in this article and our edition is based on 11 manuscripts, dated from the 10th to the 14th cent. We also compared the Florilegium Coislinianum with the Sacra Parallela and the Loci Communes.

The monumental Florilegium Coislinianum can be dated in the 9th-10th century and originally contained all the letters up to Omega, but now the most complete manuscript, Parisinus gr. 923 , ends at Psi. Hitherto only the third book has been made available in a critical edition, while the rest of the anthology is still not accessible in a printed version. This article presents the critical edition of the second book , containing some interesting fragments attributed e.g. to a certain Leontius (...) the Damascene, to Athanasius of Alexandria and to John Chrysostom. (shrink)

Name der Zeitschrift: Byzantinische Zeitschrift Jahrgang: 108 Heft: 2 Seiten: 653-672.

How on Earth can Humans be perfect? The striving for perfection has always occupied a central place in ancient Greek culture. This dynamics urged the Greeks on to surpass themselves in different fields, from sculpture and architecture over athletics to philosophy. In this volume, an international group of scholars examines how the ideal of perfection was conceived and pursued in Late Antiquity, both within philosophical circles and Christianity. Their studies yield a fascinating panorama of various attempts to bridge the unbridgeable (...) and assimilate our frail, imperfect human nature as far as possible to divine perfection. (shrink)

L'auteur démontre que le Commentaire sur l'Ecclésiaste du Pseudo-Grégoire d'Agrigente , l'anonyme Dialexis kata Ioudaiôn , les neuf homélies anonymes sur S. Jean et S. Matthieu éditées par Karl Hansmann, et la Theognôsia attribuée, à tort, à Grégoire de Nysse , sont issus d'une seule et même plume, et que cet auteur prolifique doit être identifié avec Métrophane de Smyrne, adversaire acharné de Photius.

Nicétas d'Héraclée, né vers 1060 et mort au début du XIIe siècle, est surtout connu pour ses chaînes entourant des livres bibliques, les plus célèbres étant celles sur les Evangiles de Matthieu et de Luc. La chaîne sur Matthieu, antérieure à celle de Luc, doit être très probablement être datée entre 1105 et 1112. L'A. donne ici les résultats de la collaboration entre byzantinistes. Il publie l'édition du texte du chapitre 4.

This article focuses on an anonymous ascetic text which is unpublished until now, and offers the critical edition of this short work containing a series of recommendations to Athonite monks, alphabetically organized and ending with the letter gamma ; the text is preserved in two manuscripts: Athous, Dionysiou 269, of the XVth c., and Athous, Lavra K 116, of the XVIth c.