La Lettre Rhô du Florilège Coislin

© 2017 by Byzantion. All rights reserved. This article offers the editio princeps of the Letter Rhô of the Florilegium Coislinianum, an alphabetically arranged anthology compiled around the turn of the tenth century. Nine manuscripts preserve the section in full, three further ones, in part. All of those witnesses, written between the 10thand the mid-16thcentury, are known from the editions of other sections of the florilegium. The stoicheion Rho consists of three chapters (= four excerpts), treating respectively bodily secretion, the dirtiness of a baby coming out of the womb and the flaming sword guarding the tree of life. The four fragments in question were excerpted from John Climacus (Heavenly Ladder), Gregory of Nyssa (Praise for the 40 Martyrs), the enigmatic Homilies on Matthew attributed to Athanasius, and the catena on the Octateuch (an excerpt from Didymus the Blind's Commentary on Genesis).

Publication year:2017

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