Description: The Epitome physica by Nikephoros Blemmydes (1197 - after 1269) was one of the most widely disseminated textbooks of Aristotelian natural philosophy in the Byzantine and post-Byzantine worlds. This volume provides a manuscriptological, stemmatolog
Brief description: Stefano Valente, University of Hamburg, Germany.
Review Quotes:
"The publication of studies such as this one, which give to a Byzantine text the importance that it deserves and adapt the methodology of textual criticism to works whose transmission does not depend on a distant archetype, is to be commended with gratitude." Inmaculada Pérez Martín in: BMCR, 11.04.2022