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G E O R G I O S PA C H Y M E R E S

PHILOSOPHIA

Book 5Commentary in Aristotle’s Meteorologica

Βιβλίον πέμπτον, τῶν μετεωρικῶνeditio princeps

PROLEGOMENA ● TEXT ● INDICES

BY

IOANNIS TELELIS

ΑΚΑΔΗΜΙΑ ΑΘΗΝΩΝΚΕΝΤΡΟΝ ΕΡΕΥΝΗΣ

ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΗΣ ΚΑΙ ΛΑΤΙΝΙΚΗΣ ΓΡΑΜΜΑΤΕΙΑΣΑΘΗΝΑΙ 2012

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CONTENTS

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

PROLEGOMENA

1. GEORGIOS PACHYMERES AND THE ARISTOTELIAN

METEOROLOGY ............................................................................. 3* 1.1 Philosophia, Book 5: Tῶν μετεωρικῶν ......................................3* 1.2 The reception of Aristotelian Meteorology in Byzantium and adjacent medieval cultures ........................................................8*

2. PHILOSOPHIA, BOOK 5: CONTENT AND METHOD ......................19* 2.1 Book content ...........................................................................19* Title α΄ ....................................................................................19* Title β΄ ....................................................................................26* Title γ΄ ....................................................................................34* 2.2 Pachymeres’ epitomizing method ............................................37*

3. NOTABILIA ...................................................................................49* 3.1 Marginalia ..............................................................................49* 3.2 The figures ..............................................................................54* 3.3 The geometrical proofs of Title β΄, chapter ϛ΄: On rainbow (Περὶ ἴριδος) ...........................................................................57*

4. THE MANUSCRIPT TRADITION OF THE TEXT ...........................67* 4.1 The autographs and their relationship .....................................67* 4.2 The Aristotelian exemplar .......................................................79* 4.3 The indirect manuscript tradition ............................................92*

5. THE LANGUAGE OF THE TEXT ................................................ 103* 5.1 Accentuation ........................................................................ 103*

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5.2 Coronis ................................................................................. 106* 5.3 The apostrophe .................................................................... 106* 5.4 Word‑connection .................................................................. 107* 5.5 Accentuation of enclitics ....................................................... 108* 5.6 Avoidance of elision .............................................................. 110* 5.7 Dialectal types ..................................................................... 111* 5.8 Rare types ............................................................................ 112*

6. EDITORIAL PRINCIPLES ........................................................... 115*

7. BIBLIOGRAPHY ......................................................................... 119*Abbreviations .................................................................................. 119*Ancient and Byzantine Authors ...................................................... 120*Modern Authors .............................................................................. 124*

ΓΕΩΡΓΙΟΥ ΤΟΥ ΠΑχΥΜΕΡΗ ΦΙΛΟΣΟΦΙΑΒΙΒΛΙΟΝ ΠΕΜΠΤΟΝ, ΤΩΝ ΜΕΤΕΩΡΙΚΩΝ

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

Index nominum propriorum .......................................................... 77Index verborum ............................................................................ 79Index locorum .............................................................................. 115

Facsimiles ......................................................................................... 131