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Codex Parisinus graecus 1741 and the Case of Niketas Skoutariotes

    Ilias Nesseris

Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik 74, pp. 317, 2025/03/05

doi: 10.1553/joeb74s317

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doi:10.1553/joeb74s317

Abstract

Codex Parisinus gr. 1741 is among the most ancient and significant manuscripts containing works by Aristotle alongside texts of various rhetoricians. Based on one of the two extant ownership entries, it has been established that by the late thirteenth century the manuscript had become the property of the renowned bibliophile Theodore Skoutariotes, having been gifted to him by his close friend, Manuel Angelos. The other entry indicates that at one point, it also belonged to a certain Niketas Skoutariotes, traditionally assumed to be a relative of Theodore's. This article posits the justifiable hypothesis that this person should instead be identified as the grammarian Niketas Skoutariotes, active in the last third of the twelfth century, who possibly at a later stage in his career obtained a teaching position at the Patriarchal School in Constanttinople. The paper con­cludes with a comprehensive list of all the hitherto known works of Niketas Skoutariotes.

Keywords: Niketas Skoutariotes; Aristotle; Codex Parisinus graecus 1741; Greek Palaeography; Greek Codicology; Textual Transmission; Byzantine Reception of Ancient Greek Rhetoric Theory; Byzantine Education; Twelfth Century