Manuscript
PARIS - Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) - gr. 375

Content
Person(s)
Scribe
Elias Spelaiotes (11th c.) - RGK: II.158 - VGH: 128.D - PMBZ: 23826: "Personenkennziffer: 21673" (monachos, presbyteros)
Date 1021
Origin Southern Italy < Italy
Bibliography
Identification Diktyon (Pinakes), 49948
Comment On f. 193r there is an indication of where the manuscript was possibly written, following after the date: ἐν χόρᾳ Φραγκίας κάστρῳ δὲ Κολονίας.
According to Lake (1935: 12) this note is a later addition. The manuscript was most probably written in Southern Italy (see Leroy (1982: 205 n. 24) about peculiar ornamental motifs).

Devreesse (1955: 33 n. 9) hypothesises that either the manuscript was written by an Italo-Greek monk emigrated to Cologne, or that Φραγκία actually refers to France and κάστρο Κολονίας to "the columns" (Stilo or Capo Colonna, in Calabria). Both Devreesse and Berschin (1980: 57 n. 68) draws attention to the fact that the manuscript was in St. Denis already in the Middle Ages.

Altripp (2012: 362) includes Par. gr. 375 in a list of witnesses of the Byzantine presence in Western Europe.

Lucà and Venezia (2020: 167) remark that the nexus alpha-ypsilon - adopted by scribes of the so-called "Nilian school" for titles or paratexual texts written in majuscule - can be observed at v. 3 (ταῦτην) of the book epigram featured at f. 56r of Par. gr. 375. The scholars go on saying that the manuscript was written in Cologne (Germany) by the monk Elias Spelaiotes in 1021 (as the colophon at f. 193r indicates), but the decoration and the script of the manuscript are linked to the "calabro-bizantina" book production of the 10th-11th ce.
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