New Publication: Byzantion 89 (2019)

“A Ninth-Century Fragment of Basil of Caesarea’s De Spiritu sancto and a Lost Majuscule Codex” Byzantion 89 (2019): 243-274.

A hitherto unknown fragment of Basil of Caesarea’s De Spiritu sancto (CPG 2939) forms part of the small collection of Greek manuscripts at the University of Notre Dame (Indiana, USA). The fragment (Notre Dame, Univ. of Notre Dame, Hesburgh Library, Frag. I. 63) dates to the second half of the ninth century and is an entirely new witness to the text. This article provides an analytical description, transcription , and analysis of the fragment, which is the earliest extant manuscript of Basil’s De Spiritu sancto.

New Publication: Pecia 20 (2017)

“The Ovidian Allegorical Schoolbook: Arnulf of Orléans and John of Garland Take Over a Thirteenth Century Manuscript,” Pecia (2017): 7-43 is now available online: https://doi.org/10.1484/J.PECIA.5.116320

The article is focuses on the commentary tradition of Ovid’s Metamorphoses in the twelfth and thirteenth century. A paleographical, codicological, and textual exploration of a thirteenth-century schoolbook (Wolfenbüttel Herzog August Bibliothek, Cod. Guelf. 13.10 Aug. 4o) places the manuscript at the center of a paratextual web which portrays a vivid snapshot the accretion, modification, and composition process of glossing and allegorical commentary. This manuscript nexus includes commentaries on other authors and texts which link HAB, 13.10 Aug. 4o to six other manuscripts (s. XII through s. XIV).

The study brings to the fore new Latin texts which are critically edited for the first time: five unknown accessus and a short catena commentary. A new Ovidian commentator active in France c. 1275 is also identified.

The article also includes analytical descriptions of the following manuscripts: Wolfenbüttel Herzog August Bibliothek, Cod. Guelf. 13.10 Aug. 4o; Frankfurt-am-Main, Stadt- und Universitätsbibliothek, lat. qu. 21; London, BL, Add. 10090; Montpelier, Bibliothèque Universitaire de Médecine, H 328; Paris, BnF, lat. 8207 and lat. 8253; and Stuttgart, Württembergische Landesbibliothek, Poet.et.phil. 4o 34.