Title | The text of Simplicius’s Commentary on Aristotle’s Physics and the question of supralinear omicron in Greek manuscripts |
Type | Article |
Language | English |
Date | 2014 |
Journal | Revue d’histoire des textes |
Volume | 9 |
Pages | 351-358 |
Categories | no categories |
Author(s) | Tarán, Leonardo |
Editor(s) | |
Translator(s) |
This paper tries to establish that supralinear omicron is not, as most elementary introductions to Greek paleography have it, a simple abbreviation for the ending omicron-sigma. Rather, it was originally a symbol for suspension that later medieval scribes used also for other subordinated purposes which are impossible to classify. Some examples will be given in what follows. For a long time this interpretation had seemed so obvious to me that during a 1985 colloquium on Simplicius in Paris, it surprised me that some members of the audience objected that supralinear omicron is simply an abbreviation for omicron-sigma. As this occurred during my discussion of a passage of Simplicius’s Commentary on Aristotle’s Physics, and as several of my examples come from that work, it is convenient to give a list of the manuscripts used by Diels and also of additional prim ary witnesses either rejected by, or not known to him. [introduction] |
Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/ZJr3WclOTT5e1jS |
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Title | The text of Simplicius’s Commentary on Aristotle’s Physics and the question of supralinear omicron in Greek manuscripts |
Type | Article |
Language | English |
Date | 2014 |
Journal | Revue d’histoire des textes |
Volume | 9 |
Pages | 351-358 |
Categories | no categories |
Author(s) | Tarán, Leonardo |
Editor(s) | |
Translator(s) |
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Online Resources | https://uni-koeln.sciebo.de/s/ZJr3WclOTT5e1jS |
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