Als ich vor zehn Jahren die Hand des Kopisten des Geschichtswerkes von Dukas in einigen Handschriften identifizierte, hatte ich mehr dazu tendiert, daß der Kopist in der 2. Hälfte des 15. Jh. in Norditalien lebte, wohin er eventuell aus dem Osten gekommen war. Eine spätere, zufällige Entdeckung im Kodex Laurentianus plut. 10.8 hat mich dazu veranlaßt, alle Gegebenheiten bezüglich der Persönlichkeit des Schreibers nochmals zu untersuchen.

This volume combines twenty-six contributions on Byzantine literature in which well-known Byzantine scholars approach subjects from epistolography, historiography, hagiography, philology and prosopography. New editions of many of the texts and documents analysed are included.

Continuing his work on Aesop Manolis Papathopoulos published two volumes in 1999: the first contains the edition of the redaction W of Aesop's Life, the second five, vernacular translations of his Life. The first volume which relates to the redaction W, the so-called Westermanniana, of Aesop's Life consists of three parts. The first part (Introduction, pp. 11–35) is divided into two chapters. At the beginning Papath. focuses on the classification of the Aesop's Life in the litterary genre of biography, on (...) the historicity of Aesop himself, his provenance, the myths about his life and the representations of him. (shrink)