Kalligraphos – Essays on Byzantine Language, Literature and Palaeography: From Byzantine Historiography to Post-Byzantine Poetry

The present volume is a Festschrift in honor of the distinguished scholar in Late Byzantine, post-Byzantine and Cretan Renaissance studies I. Mavromatis. The title Kalligraphos is indicative of the foundations of his scholarship, which lie in the fields of paleography and early printing. With manuscripts and early printed books as the primary material of his studies, Professor Mavromatis has produced several major works in the fields of Byzantine philology, Cretan Renaissance literature (especially Erotorcritos) and late Byzantine vernacular poetry. This volume includes a short preface and twenty-four articles by senior and younger scholars, former colleagues, collaborators, and students of Professor Mavromatis. The articles are loosely arranged in chronological order of their subject matter and treat issues ranging from Byzantine historiography going back to the 4th century CE to post-Byzantine Cretan poetry of the 17th century. This philological kaleidoscope features new editions and interpretations of hitherto unknown or little-known poems and texts. The volume is intended for scholars, graduate and undergraduate students and the general readership interested in Byzantine and post-Byzantine literature. Preface 6 Contents 10 Abbreviations 14 Βυζαντινοί Ιστορικοί και Χρονογράφοι: Τομές, δεδομένα και προκλήσεις στην έρευνα 16 Parva Hesychiana 28 Theodotos Melissenos Kassiteras: A Note on the Meaning of his Sobriquet 38 Imperial Hymnography: The Canon of St Demetrios Attributed to Emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus 42 A Note on Leo the Deacon’s Ηistory 6, 6 (pp. 100–101 Hase) 72 Theophylact of Ohrid’s Vita of Clement of Ohrid and the Martyrdom of the Fifteen Martyrs of Tiberiopolis 84 Les rats et le vieux gentilhomme gourmand: Notes sur un épisode de Timariôn 92 Gregory the Sinaite, Savas of Vatopedi and Maximos Kausokalybites 104 Matthew of Ephesus and his Dialogue on the Immortality of Adam and Eve 116 Un Recueil Palamite inconnu du XIV e s. au Musée de Sainte Catharine d’Héraklion 160 Μάρκου Μουσούρου τοῦ Κρητὸς παράφραση τοῦ Συμβόλου τῆς Πίστεως σὲ ἑξαμέτρους στίχους 182 Some Remarks on the Manuscript Tradition of Ptochoprodromica 188 Ο Κρασοπατέρας του 14 ου αιώνα – Kριτική έκδοση 194 Η αρχική μορφή του Καταλογιού της Πόθας του Στέφανου Σαχλίκη και τί άραγε τραγουδούσαν οι μαθητές του σχολείου 224 Διδαχή Σολομῶντος περὶ τοῦ υἱοῦ αὐτοῦ Ροβοάμ: New Evidence for the Dating and Cretan Provenance of the Poem 238 Ἀρχοντόπουλo καὶ ἀπὸ καλὴν γενέαν: Una Variante della Batrachomyomachia di Dimitrios Zinos (Dal frammento del Sinai 248 Cherchez la Veuve: Remarks on Apokopos 264 Ἐξήγησις τοῦ Θαυμαστοῦ Ἰμπερίου: Βιβλιολογικὲς παρατηρήσεις σὲ Ἐκδόσεις τοῦ 16 ου αἰώνα 276 Η Ερωφίλη του Γεωργίου Χορτάτση και η Acripanda του Antonio Decio da Orte 284 Νεότερες φιλολογικές εκδόσεις του Ερωτόκριτου: Εκτιμήσεις, απορίες, εικασίες, προτάσεις 302 Η Δυναμική των Αντιθέσεων σε Έργα της Κρητικής Λογοτεχνίας (14 ος –17 ος αι.) 324 When is a Monk not a Monk? A Landowner’s Complaint in Seventeenth Century Crete 344 Notes on a Cretan Poet’s Precedence Dispute (Venice, late 17 th Century) 356 The Poem by Marinos Tzanes (1684) and Pavlos Kladopoulos’ Newer Rhyme (1712) 370 Bibliography – Ι. Mavromatis 380 General Index 386