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Papers by Maria Giovanna Sandri

Byzantion, 2023

This paper provides a new edition of one of the surviving epitomes of Orion’s Etymologicum (5th c... more This paper provides a new edition of one of the surviving epitomes of Orion’s Etymologicum (5th century), on the basis of new insight into its manuscript tradition.

Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies, 2023

A grammatical manuscript in the Bodleian should be dated ca. 10th century, and its topic is not a... more A grammatical manuscript in the Bodleian should be dated ca. 10th century, and its topic is not accents but ἀντίστοιχα, the diverse spellings of vowels that now sounded the same.

Lexis, 2023

This paper offers a preliminary study of MS Atheniensis EBE 1089, a neglected lexicographic and g... more This paper offers a preliminary study of MS Atheniensis EBE 1089, a neglected lexicographic and grammatical miscellany consisting of several different sections, to be dated between the 13th and the 15th century. Among other texts, this manuscript transmits Phrynichus’ Eclogue and Moeris’ Lexicon. After providing a survey of the contents of this codex, the first part of the article deals with some of its main material features, with a description of its different sections and the scribes who copied them. Additionally, it is argued that the codex as a whole was the product of a single ‘editorial’ project carried out by a certain Μᾶρκος, active in the middle of the 16th century. The second part of the article offers a philological analysis of the folios containing the lexica of Phrynichus and Moeris; that gave the occasion to develop some new thoughts on their texts and manuscript traditions.

RPh, 2021

This paper argues that, as for the manuscript tradition of Ps.-Arcadius’ Epitome of the Καθολικὴ ... more This paper argues that, as for the manuscript tradition of Ps.-Arcadius’ Epitome of the Καθολικὴ προσῳδία by Herodian, manuscript Parisinus gr. 2102 (C) was copied by the 16th-century scribe Jacob Diassorinos from another witness of that work, i.e. Parisinus gr. 2603 (B), while these two manuscripts have so far always been thought to be codices gemelli coming from the same, lost antigraph. I also claim that Jacob Diassorinos took his sources for writing the so-called ‘Book 20’ of this epitome from the same manuscript: therefore, the inauthenticity of this book is ultimately confirmed. On this basis, it is also possible to dampen Diassorino’s renowned portrayal as a forger, attached to him starting from the 19th century.

RHT, 2022

The article offers the first critical edition of an epitome of the tratise Περὶ πνευμάτων by Tryp... more The article offers the first critical edition of an epitome of the tratise Περὶ πνευμάτων by Trypho of Alexandria, grammarian living in the second half of the first century BCE. The importance of this epitome (already mentioned by since P. Egenolff, Die orthoepischen Stücke der byzantinischen Litteratur, Leipzig, 1887, p. 26-27) can now be reconsidered in light of a new Parisinus manuscript witness, that transmits the epitome in a more authentic version than the one known hitherto (and which is the fruit of an interpolation). The text contains interesting novelties concerning the doctrine on breathings developed by Trypho, and also yields two unpublished fragments of ancient authors, one of which is probably by Alexander Aetolus, and the other one by the grammarian Tyrannion. The Appendix gives the edition of another unknown Περὶ πνευμάτων, containing a new fragment by the grammarian Aristocles.

Classical Philology, 2022

New evidence provided by MS Barocci 68 proves that Aeschylus’ fragment 429a Radt is to be exclude... more New evidence provided by MS Barocci 68 proves that Aeschylus’ fragment 429a Radt is to be excluded from future editions. The deletion of frag. 429a Radt is not without consequences for a textual issue in Aeschylus’ frag. 164 Radt.

Glotta, 2022

The 15th-century ms. Bodl. Barocci 216 preserves an unknown excerptum on punctuation attributed t... more The 15th-century ms. Bodl. Barocci 216 preserves an unknown excerptum on punctuation attributed to the most renowned ancient grammarian in the field, Nicanor of Alexandria. This paper offers the first critical edition of this short excerptum, showing that it does derive from Nicanor’s work, and probably from the epitome of his Περὶ στιγμῆς τῆς καθόλου, of which only a few fragments are extant today. The excerptum thus offers new elements concerning Nicanor’s punctuation system, as well as the grammarian’s exegesis of various poetic texts – prominent amongst these are a passage from Aristophanes’ Ecclesiazusae where it restores a correct reading (conjectured in the 18th century), and a new poetic fragment possibly belonging to the comic genre.

Rivista di filologia e di istruzione classica, 2021

One of the surviving treatises περὶ τρόπων (i.e. on rhetorical figures) is attributed by the manu... more One of the surviving treatises περὶ τρόπων (i.e. on rhetorical figures) is attributed by the manuscript tradition to an enigmatic person named Κοκόνδριος. In this note, I argue that the correct name of this grammarian is actually Concordius, propose a terminus ante quem for his chronology, and offer an attempt to identify him.

Prometheus. Rivista di studi classici, 2021

This paper identifies the lexicon preserved at ff. 27r-32r of ms. Laur. Plut. 57.24 (first half o... more This paper identifies the lexicon preserved at ff. 27r-32r of ms. Laur. Plut. 57.24 (first half of the 14th cent.) as an epitome of the Lexicum Seguerianum περὶ συντάξεως, recently edited by D. Petrova in 2006. Additionally, it argues that, for this very section of the codex, ms. Laur. Plut. 57.24 is the apographon of ms. Coisl. gr. 345 (10th cent.), the only surviving witness of the lexicon περὶ συντάξεως in its versio plenior.

Classical Quarterly, 2021

A treatise on rhetorical tropes is attributed in manuscripts to the first-century grammarian Tryp... more A treatise on rhetorical tropes is attributed in manuscripts to the first-century grammarian Trypho: this article considers for the first time a fifteenth-century manuscript of this work (Leiden, BPG 74G), which turns out to be the only complete witness of its hitherto unknown original version; this version (very fragmentarily transmitted by a fifth-century papyrus scrap) is also partly found in another fifteenth-century manuscript now kept in Olomouc (M 79). Four interesting poetic fragments are quoted in this newly discovered, fuller version of Ps.-Trypho's De Tropis: some lines from Callimachus’ fifth and fourth Iambi (23–9 and 90–2 respectively: a radically new light is shed by this new witness on the parallel papyrus fragments carrying Callimachus’ text), an epigram dubiously attributed to Simonides (FGE 44 Page, probably to be dated to the Hellenistic period: the text can be now restored to its complete form), and some enigmatic lines of “Hesiod”'s Wedding of Keyx, which the new witness finally makes fully understandable.

Eikasmos, 2020

This paper offers new insights into the text of Anacr. SLG S313(a-b) by investigating the relatio... more This paper offers new insights into the text of Anacr. SLG S313(a-b) by investigating the relationship between the three treatises on solecisms which transmit the fragment. In particular, it suggests that the section (b) of the fragment could be a spurious addition by a Byzantine grammarian.

Medioevo Greco, 2020

The aim of this paper is to present the editio princeps of a Byzantine treatise on prepositional ... more The aim of this paper is to present the editio princeps of a Byzantine treatise on prepositional syntax, transmitted under the title περὶ προθέσεων. This text was first discovered some years ago by T. Martínez Manzano in a manuscript held in Salamanca – the scholar was impressed above all by the extraordinary density of ancient and classical literary quotations, by far exceeding the average of similar treatises. The discovery of three other witnesses of this text has led to the preparation of its first critical edition and has allowed to draw some conclusions about its genesis and chronology, namely Constantinople during the Palaeologan age (probably between the end of the 13th and the beginning of the 14th century). The study of this text has also given the opportunity to offer some remarks on the long – and little investigated – Greek tradition περὶ προθέσεων.

A new reading of POxy XVII 2093, fr. 1 ll. 11-15.

Prometheus. Rivista di studi classici, 2020

This article deals with a hitherto unknown excerptum of the Lexicon Vindobonensis. The excerptum ... more This article deals with a hitherto unknown excerptum of the Lexicon Vindobonensis. The excerptum is transmitted in the 15th-century ms. Bodl. Barocci 216 and preserves only the first eleven lemmata of the Lexicon. It reflects the original redaction (α) of this work, which is fully transmitted only in ms. Neap. II D 29. In the light of the new evidence offered by the excerptum Baroccianum, we can gauge better the humanist spreading of the Lexicon, and the hypothesis that the α redaction may be a product of the copyist of the Neapolitan manuscript (already dismissed by A. Guida) can be conclusively rejected.

https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/prometheus/article/view/9240/8192

Rudiae. Ricerche sul mondo classico, 2018

Il Laur. Plut. 89, 25 è un manoscritto schedografico rimasto a lungo trascurato. Se ne fornisce q... more Il Laur. Plut. 89, 25 è un manoscritto schedografico rimasto a lungo trascurato. Se ne fornisce qui una prima descrizione contenutistica e codicologica. Dapprima si mostra come questo codice trasmetta una raccolta schedografica extra-Moscopulea, riconducibile alla I delle classi individuate da J.J. Keaney. In secondo luogo, si riconosce come contesto di genesi del manoscritto - su basi principalmente paleografiche, ma non solo - l'ambito salentino della fine del sec. XIII e gli inizi del sec. XIV.

Il Περὶ συντάξεως λόγου di Gregorio di Corinto nel ms. Barocci 131: un testimone riscoperto, 2019

Books by Maria Giovanna Sandri

De Gruyter, 2023

In Greek and Latin, tropes (τρόποι) are generally defined as variations from a linguistic and sty... more In Greek and Latin, tropes (τρόποι) are generally defined as variations from a linguistic and stylistic norm (κυριολογία), either for stylistic purposes or for necessity. In this sense, they lie somewhere between a purely grammatical and a more rhetorical nature, since they may involve alterations of morphology, the semantic sphere of words, or syntactic peculiarities aimed at achieving a special expressive effect. Because of their ambiguous nature, tropes are in close proximity to what are commonly known as rhetorical figures (σχήματα). From the Ancient times all the way to the Byzantine era, Greek grammarians wrote several treatises on tropes (περὶ τρόπων). This book offers a critical edition of the extant texts on tropes transmitted by mediaeval codices, i.e. the ones attributed to grammarians such as Concordius, Georgius Choeroboscus, and the so-called ‘Trypho I’, ‘Trypho II’, ‘Trypho III’, ‘Anonymus III’ and ‘Anonymus IV’. Each text is accompanied by an Italian translation. In the Introduction, besides a generic overview on the concept of trope (its genesis, its meaning(s), its development throughout centuries), an analysis of the contents and of the reciprocal relations between all these treatises is provided.

De Gruyter, Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte, 135, 2020

Scholarship has rarely taken into consideration the Greek grammatical treatises on barbarism and ... more Scholarship has rarely taken into consideration the Greek grammatical treatises on barbarism and solecism. While some of them remain unpublished down to the present day, others were edited within the large 18th- and 19th-century collections of Greek grammatical and rhetorical works, although the chosen manuscript basis was inadequate, sometimes indeed wholly arbitrary. For this reason, a new edition was urgently needed. The book is opened by a general critical overview of the phenomenon of linguistic correctness in the Greek-speaking world: it is against this benchmark of Hellenismós that barbarism and solecism acquire their sense as phenomena of corruption. The present critical edition has the ambition to publish the known ancient and Byzantine texts related to these phenomena, as they appear in manuscripts preserved throughout the world: a fresh check of all printed library catalogues has revealed 88 relevant codices, all of which are here described, philologically investigated, and used for the constitutio textus. Three texts receive here their editio princeps, others rest on a wider textual basis, and each is equipped with a selective critical apparatus: hypotheses on chronology and authorship can therefore rely on much firmer elements than before.