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Alex has posted a tutorial on Greek paleography: I spent the morning writing up a short Greek paleography tutorial. It’s targeted at people who have at least an intermediate knowledge of Greek, but haven’t done much paleography themselves (ie, they haven’t read from manuscripts). Because of the clarity of hand, I think the recently discovered [...]
Via Alin Suciu I learn that Alex Poulos has transcribed and translated part of one of the newly discovered homilies on the Psalms by Origen: As promised, this post will contain a short transcription and translation of Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Codex graeca 314, the codex which scholars recently have rediscovered and believe contains a large number [...]
The new find of Origen’s homilies on the Psalms raised the question of what already existed. Alin Suciu listed the homilies found, as I mentioned yesterday. Previously we had only extracts from catenas, plus a Latin translation of 9 homilies on the Psalms: 5 on Psalm 36, 2 on Ps. 37, 2 on Ps. 38. These [...]
In my last post about the new find of homilies of Origen on the Psalms, I quoted a letter by Lorenzo Perrone. He states that Dr Marina Molin Pradel “noticed that the list of the other homilies corresponded to a large extent to that presented by Jerome in his Letter 33 to Paula, the most [...]
Alin Suciu has unearthed more details about the find, announced yesterday, of a Greek manuscript in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich (ms. gr. 314) full of homilies on the Psalms by Origen. The news is even better than we had first thought! In update 2 to his first post (which also includes an image of the [...]
J.-B.Piggin draws my attention to a press release today by the Bayerische StaatsBibliothek. My own very rough translation of parts of it: While cataloguing the Greek manuscripts in the Johann Jakob Fuller collection of books, a spectacular discovery was recently made in the Bavarian State Library. The philologist Marina Molin Pradel during the cataloguing process identified [...]