Regulae ad quasdam Homericas voces

Literary/ Cultural Context Essay

Dimitrios Papanikolaou (University of Democritus)

Ed. by Sophia Papaioannou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.7.1.01: Byzantine Writing and culture, 476-1453.
Vol. editors: Vaios Liapis (Open University of Cyprus)

Domains

Lexicology and Lexicography

Dates

Date of occurrence c.1300- c.1400

Places

Greece (Location)

Genres and Modes

Dictionary

A medieval Greek grammatical work preserved in only one manuscript deposited at the Vatican library (cod. Vat. gr. 93, fol. 136-139r, usually dated in the 14^th cent. AD). Its original Greek title is Κανονίσματα διάφορα ὠφέλιμα ἐκ τοῦ Ὁμήρου [“Various Useful Rules Concerning the Homeric Text”. Latin title: Regulae ad quasdam Homericas voces. From now on: Reg. Hom. voc.].

It was published by P. Matranga (1850: 536-551), who made the mistake of giving to it an alphabetical order, in what appears to be an originally …

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Citation: Papanikolaou, Dimitrios. "Regulae ad quasdam Homericas voces". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 14 January 2020 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=19575, accessed 28 April 2024.]

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