Notes
Manuscripts are often shrouded in a veil of mystery. Their origins and histories are seldom explicitly known, their texts are not always exactly delimited, their titles might have fluctuated, and numerous works were copied without the author’s name. Academic inquiry has not addressed—and often not even acknowledged—these and other issues. These Notes aim to clarify some of these manuscript and textual enigmas, whether the precise identification of a text, the quest for manuscripts believed to be lost, the itineraries of codices from the Renaissance to the antiquarian market, or the reconstruction of dismembered libraries. They present findings from research in manuscripts and libraries, unexpected revelations, and any other observations recorded in a researcher's files that suddenly gain significance thanks to a seemingly unrelated piece of information discovered in another manuscript.
A Lost Greek Manuscript of a work by the Byzantine physician Actuarius?