Eva Villani

Lazzaro Bonamico wrote on Ambr. O 122 sup. a list of lemmata from Aristoteles’ Ethica Nicomachea and on Ambr. O 129 sup. one from Oppian’s Halieutica. Some Greek words are explained by Latin or vernacular glossae and it is possible that they derived from Pietro Pomponazzi’s philosophical lessons or Marco Musuro’s lectures in Greek literature...

Varino Favorino Camerte’s Magnum ac perutile Dictionarium (printed at Rome, 1523) is the widest Greek lexicographical compilation edited in Renaissance Italy. The most important source of the glosses of the psi group is the Lexicon of Hesychius. Several lemmata are too rare and erudite for didactic use, and the absence of a Latin translation shows that the Dictionarium aimed at preserving the Greek language rather than at providing help to Western beginners. The Preface is here reprinted and translated into Italian. The exemplar of the editio princeps owned by the Biblioteca Ambrosiana was a gift of Cardinal Reginald Pole to Wimborne College (Dorsetshire).

SUMMARY: An unknown Byzantine lexicon is preserved in a manuscript datable to the end of the 12th century (Milano, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, C 222 inf. [gr. 886], ff. 207r-208v). The author appears to have been working in Constantinople during the second half of the 12th century and shows personal acquaintance with Ioannes Tzetzes. The lexicon includes 751 glosses. A few lacunae in the text suggest that schedae could have been used to compile the glossary. Several sources are identifiable, the most frequently found are Aelius Herodianus, Epimerismoi, and Lexicon Tittmannianum. A selection of unusual and rare glosses is edited and discussed.

Si pubblica un lessico etimologico inedito, conservato nel codice Ambrosianus C 222 inf., f. 209v (Gr. 886), vergato alla fine del XII sec., costituito da 72 glosse. È verisimile che derivi da una redazione dell’Etymologicum Gudianum affine a quella del Guelpherbytanus Gudianus gr. 29 e 30, ma forse più ampia, in cui sarebbe confluito materiale degli Epimerismi ai Salmi e degli Epimerismi ai Canoni di Giorgio Cherobosco.