Foreword V

G E O R G I O S P A C H Y M E R E S

PHILOSOPHIA

Book 3

In Aristotelis De Caelo Commentary

editio princeps

PROLEGOMENA ● TEXT ● INDICES

BY

IOANNIS TELELIS

ΑΚΑΔΗΜΙΑ ΑΘΗΝΩΝ

ΑΘΗΝΑΙ 2016

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CONTENTS

Foreword ......................................................................................... VII

PROLEGOMENA

1. GEORGIOS PACHYMERES AND ΤΗΕ DE CAELO......................... 3*

1.1 Georgios Pachymeres’ Philosophia........................................ 3*

1.2 Aristotle’s De Caelo ............................................................... 7*

2. CONTENT AND METHOD ............................................................. 15*

2.1 Content of Philosophia, book 3 .............................................. 15*

Title I .................................................................................... 16*

Title II .................................................................................. 34*

Title III ................................................................................. 46*

2.2 Pachymeres’ method and practices ........................................ 50*

3. TEXTUAL TRADITION ................................................................ 73*

3.1 The earliest manuscript witnesses B and P ........................... 74*

3.2 Exploring the Aristotelian exemplar of B .............................. 81*

3.3 The indirect manuscript tradition ......................................... 95* 3.3.1 The excerpts from the Παρεκβολαί ........................... 96* 3.3.2 The excerpts from Joseph Rhakendytes’ Encyclopedia ........................................................... 102*

4. PARATEXTUAL MATERIAL .................................................... 113*

4.1 Marginal notes .................................................................... 113*

4.2 Diagrams ............................................................................ 116*

5. LANGUAGE ............................................................................... 127*

5.1 Word-connection ................................................................. 128*

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5.2 Εnclisis/enclitics ................................................................. 129*

5.3 Accentuation ....................................................................... 133*

5.4 Orthography ........................................................................ 137*

5.5 Vocabulary .......................................................................... 138*

6. EDITORIAL PRINCIPLES .......................................................... 141*

7. BIBLIOGRAPHY ........................................................................ 145*Abbreviations ................................................................................. 145*Ancient and Byzantine Authors ..................................................... 147*Modern Authors ............................................................................. 151*

ΓΕωρΓΙου Του ΠαχυμΕρΗ ΦΙλοσοΦΙα

ΒΙΒλΙοΝ ΤρΙΤοΝ, Το ΠΕρΙ ουραΝου

Τabula notarum in apparatibus adhibitarum ................................. 2Textus ........................................................................................... 3Indices

Index nominum propriorum ...................................................... 85Index verborum ......................................................................... 87Index locorum ........................................................................... 109

Facsimiles ...................................................................................... 129