Jacopo Cavarzeran, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy.
This volume re-examines the manuillegalscript tradition of Pollux´ Onomasticon, the ten-book Atticist lexicon that had the widest circulation in Medieval Byzantium and the Humanistic West. The important reference edition by Erich Bethe (1900–1937) paved the way for the study of the Onomasticon but is now almost a century old. The present volume provides (1) an up-to-date study of the manuillegalscripts in the light of recent advancements in the fields of codicology and palaeography, which complements Bethe´s with new information and corrects some mistakes in his edition. (2) A proposal for a new subdivision of manuillegalscript families and their relations based on a collation of textual samples and a thorough study of the Palaeologan and Renaissance manuillegalscripts overlooked by Bethe. (3) A study of the paratextual material (marginalia, scholia, epigrams) contained in the manuillegalscripts. (4) Suggestions for a perspective future edition of the text, based on a sample of newly edited text with comprehensive apparatuses of sources, loci similes, etc. This volume will be of interest to Classicists working on the manuillegalscript transmission of erudite texts and historians of Atticism.
Purism in Antiquity is devoted to the theories of linguistic purism, and more broadly of linguistic correctness, that were developed in the Greek and Roman world, the texts which transmit them, and the way these theories were received in later periods. The volumes in the series adopt a diachronic viewpoint which combines methodological approaches ranging from literary criticism and linguistics to textual philology and reception studies.
