497 See p. 151 for details.
498 See pp. 150-151 for details.
for the purposes of the collation. However, the extent of the agreement is diverse in this group. There are numerous glossary notes that show strict agreement with all three versions appearing in the three codices, although these glossary notes tend to be shorter usually consisting of one or two ad-ditional Latin synonyms (e.g. glossary notes added to 18r 24, 18v 20, 21r 24, 44v 3, 46v 7). However, sometimes strict agreement can also occur in the case of longer marginal notes (longer sequences of synonyms, short definitions;
e.g. 43r 13, 43r 15, 45v 1, 55v 25). Still, in the case of more complex, longer marginal notes one can find minor differences more often: one or some of the additional Latin synonyms cannot be found in one of the codices (e.g. 14r 20, 22r 15, 53v 1) or definitions given in the marginal notes can also show minor divergences: usually not in wording, but rather parts of them are missing in some of the codices (e.g. 14r 13, 14r 23; 18r 4; 23v 14). If one studies group 1 in the table thoroughly, it can be realized that not only marginalia contain-ing additional Latin synonyms tend to agree with all three codices. One can also find several marginal notes in Greek (mostly irregular verb forms, e.g.
17v 8, 44v 14, 49r 21; and grammatical information on augmentation etc., e.g. 18r 4, 44v 6). Marginal notes containing an additional Greek lemma and its Latin equivalent often agree with lemma pairs found in the main text of the dictionaries in all three codices (e.g. 21r 3, 43r 10, 49r 14). Furthermore, several Italian marginal notes also show remarkable agreement with the dictionaries in the three codices where the Italian words and expressions interestingly appear in the place of or next to the Latin equivalents from time to time (e.g. 19v 21, 46v 5, 56v 25). Finally, there is an instructive agree-ment in group 1 worth highlighting: the original word pair is βωμολόχος phanaticus in ÖNB Suppl. Gr. 45 (52v 21), to which the Italian equivalents il buffone, sive scurra were added and the same hand modified the Greek lemma to βωμόλαχος. In all three codices, the Greek lemma appears as βωμόλαχος, and all of them contain both Italian equivalents.
In group 2, the number of glossary notes showing agreement with two of the three codices is just slightly lower (approximately 159 glossary notes) than in group 1. However, one has to bear in mind that in the majority of the instances (approx. 114) the agreement of all three codices is hindered due to defects in two of the codices: in about 85 cases due to the extensive lacuna in Cod. Gr. 4, while in about 29 cases due to the lacuna in the place of the Latin lemmas or their displacement in Cod. Vat. Pal. Gr. 194. Mainly marginal notes containing additional Latin synonyms agree with two of
the codices with possible minor differences at times (e.g. 2v 6, 2v 15, 4r 12, 13r 14). There are also marginal notes with longer definitions which show remarkable agreement with two of the codices (e.g. 3r 8, 7r 3, 54r 14). Besides, marginal notes in Greek (mainly irregular verb forms; e.g. 7r 25, 8r 3) or in Italian (e.g. 2r 26, 13r 19-20) also appear in group 2. Even marginal notes with additional Greek-Latin word pairs show agreement with word pairs in the main text of two of the codices (e.g. 6r 15, 7r 6, 13v 15).
Group 3 comprises approximately 37 marginal notes that agree partly or completely with one of the three codices. Among the matching marginalia one can find additional Latin synonyms (e.g. 28r 23, 30r 9), longer definitions (e.g. 28r 13, 41r 19), Greek irregular verbs (e.g. 16r 22), Italian equivalents (e.g. 35v 7, 47r 1) etc. similarly as in groups 1 and 2. In numerous instances (about 28), lacunas or the misplacement of lemmas in Vat. Pal. Gr. 194 and Cod. Gr. 4 also contribute to the lack of agreement.
In group 4 marginal notes (approximately 97) are collected that agree with none of the three codices. The lack of agreement is again to be attributed partly to the defects (lacunas and misplacement of lemmas) in two of the codices that have been described earlier in details. Otherwise the fact that the marginalia in ÖNB Suppl. Gr. 45 do not agree with any of the codices can be explained on several grounds. In some cases, obviously a scribal er-ror led to the disagreement of some of the codices. A very good example illustrates this phenomenon if one looks at the marginal note added to 4r 19 in ÖNB Suppl. Gr. 45 (ludorum praefectus) and the relevant Latin lemmas in Vat. Pal. Gr. 194 (profectus luctorum) and in Res. 224 (luctatorum praefectus).
The divergence of the two codices can be well explained on palaeographical grounds. Furthermore, there are several marginal notes that show agree-ment partly or completely with a 1497 edition of the Crastonus dictionary499 (these marginalia are highlighted in grey in group 4) even if they do not agree with any of the three codices used for the purposes of the collation.
As it has been mentioned earlier, the vocabulary of the Crastonus diction-ary is predominantly based on the textual tradition also represented by
499 The following exemplar was used for the comparison: Johannes Crastonus, Dictionarium graecum cum interpretatione latina. Mit lat. Widmungsbrief an die Studenten und lat. Vorwort zum Index an den Leser von Aldus Manutius. Mit griech. Gedicht von Scipione Fortiguerra und von Marcus Musurus. Mit Privileg. It was published by Aldus Manutius in December 1497. Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, signature: 2 Inc.c.a. 3470. The dictionary is available online among the digital collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek: http://daten.digitale-samm-lungen.de/~db/0005/bsb00052218/images/index.html?seite=00005&l=en (downloaded on 10 June 2013).
Vat. Pal. Gr. 194, Cod. Gr. 4 and Res. 224 according to Peter Thiermann, who collected several other codices containing Greek-Latin dictionaries from the same textual tradition.500 Thus, marginalia matching the Latin lemmas of the Crastonus dictionary are likely to originate from the same textual tradition as the vocabulary of the first printed dictionary, but from another branch of the tradition than the one represented by the three codices col-lated with the glossary notes. Finally, in the case of the marginalia showing agreement neither with the three codices nor with the Crastonus dictionary two explanations seem to be probable: 1) The marginalia have their origin in another branch of the textual tradition that diverges from the one repre-sented by the three codices and that did not make its way to the Crastonus dictionary. Still, they perhaps could be found in other codices containing dictionaries of this textual tradition. 2) These glossary notes have an entirely different origin outside the textual tradition represented by the Crastonus dictionary. At this point, without the investigation of further codices from the same textual tradition, the question cannot be decided.
All in all, the collation of the glossary notes in the Vienna manuscript with Vat. Pal. Gr. 194, Cod. Gr. 4. (Budapest) and Res. 224 (Madrid) can lead us to two conclusions: 1) the high number of significant agreements – even in the cases of Italian glossary notes and Greek ones – seems to prove that this group of additional glossary notes in ÖNB Suppl. Gr. 45 ultimately takes its origin from another textual tradition of Greek-Latin lexica, i.e. the one represented by the three codices used for the purposes of the collation; 2) the occasional differences between the glossary notes of the Vienna manuscript and the corresponding lemmas of the other three codices seem to indicate that none of them can be regarded as the direct source of this group of marginal notes. Still, the agreement of some of the marginalia with the vocabulary of the Crastonus dictionary sharing the same textual tradition as the Vatican, Budapest and Madrid codices also seem to confirm that this group of mar-ginal notes in ÖNB Suppl. Gr. 45 originates from this shared tradition of the Crastonus dictionary and the three codices collated. An analysis of further Greek-Latin dictionaries from the same textual tradition could perhaps help us identify a more direct source of these glossary notes.
The high number of glossary notes in this group suggests that their ad-dition aimed at the conscious enlargement and broadening of the original
500 See p. 149 for details.
lexicographical material in ÖNB Suppl. Gr. 45 through the exploitation of lexica from another tradition. In this way, the Vienna manuscript presents an interesting combination of two different traditions of Greek-Latin lexica.
This is, however, not the only attempt to combine the different vocabularies of the two Greek-Latin lexica originating from different traditions: several examples can be found for similar considerable enlargement of the original lexicographical material in Greek-Latin dictionaries.501
501 Some copies of Crastonus’s printed lexicon also contain glosses on the early leaves from the lexicon attributed to Pseudo-Cyril that tend to fade out afterwards, see Botley 2010: 65.
Botley mentions Constantine Lascaris’s and George Hermonymus’s copies as examples for this tendency. As a third example, we can also add Taddeo Ugoleto’s copy of Crastonus’s printed dictionary: according the results of Gábor Bolonyai’s research work Ugoleto added several entries and marginalia from the Greek-Latin dictionary found in the manuscript ÖNB Suppl. Gr. 45 to his copy of Crastonus; see Bolonyai 2011 for details.
3 Summary
In this chapter, two major groups of glossary notes added in the margins of the Greek-Latin dictionary in ÖNB Suppl. Gr. 45 have been analysed thorough-ly. The first major group of glossary notes has been discussed in a division of four subgroups in accordance with their ultimate sources: Aristophanic marginalia, glosses quoting the legal text SBM, glossary notes of miscel-laneous Greek literary origin (mainly Xenophon, Plato and Plutarch) and marginal notes connected to lexicographical sources (mainly to the Suda lexicon). The results of the collation of these marginal notes with the modern textual editions of the source texts suggest in the case of all four subgroups that the Greek literary and lexicographical works cannot be regarded as direct sources of the marginalia: the glossary notes are altered in various ways (e.g. Latin translation, summarizing, shortening or rewriting of the original source) compared to the source texts they are obviously related to. In this respect the collation of this major group of marginal notes with a group of the marginal notes found in the Greek-Latin dictionary of the Madrid manuscript Σ I 12 has proved to be instructive: the two sets of mar-ginal notes in the two codices show remarkable agreement even at the level of textual errors and variants contrasted to the textual variants found in the modern editions.
The second major group of glossary notes of mainly lexicographical con-tent (synonyms, alternative meanings, short definitions etc.) written pre-dominantly in Latin and occasionally in Greek or in Italian seems to originate from another tradition of Greek-Latin lexica. This can be well illustrated with the results of the collation with three representatives of this tradition found in the manuscripts Vat. Pal. Gr. 194, Cod. Gr. 4 and Res. 224.
The examination of the sources of the two major groups of glossary notes in the Greek-Latin dictionary of the manuscript ÖNB Suppl. Gr. 45 can thus lead us to the following conclusions: 1) The high number of glossary notes in both groups seems to indicate that their addition was the result of a systematic and organized process aiming at the conscious enlargement and broadening of the original lexicographical material of the dictionary;
2) Both major groups of glossary notes in the Vienna manuscript seem to originate from or be more closely related to a lexicographical tradition rather than a literary one: The second group of glossary notes is ultimately based on an entirely different tradition of Greek-Latin lexica; while the striking
agreements of the glossary notes in the Vienna and the Madrid manuscripts suggest that a set of marginal notes containing mainly Aristophanic and legal quotations once made their appearance in the textual tradition of the Greek-Latin lexicon found in the codex Harleianus and then perhaps were handed down as a part of the dictionary in a branch of the tradition.
The two major groups of glossary notes have never been examined and discussed in such depth earlier in the literature. Thus, the assumption has prevailed for long that the identification and meticulous analysis of the ultimate sources and their textual traditions can help us identify the glos-sator who added these glosses in the margins of ÖNB Suppl. Gr. 45. However, the final conclusions of this chapter also imply that it is highly improbable that these glossary notes in the Vienna manuscript could offer any valuable information about the person of the glossator either through their textual tradition or through their content since they seem to be rather rooted in the lexicographical tradition of contemporary Greek-Latin lexica than in the literary traditions of the works quoted or referred to in the case of the first major group of glossary notes. The second major group of marginalia with its purely lexicographical origin further confirms this statement.
V Conclusions
In the present monograph, a complex and thorough analysis of the manu-script ÖNB Suppl. Gr. 45 has been provided. Since the codex has never been researched and discussed in such depth before, several significant results have been achieved in the course of the research work.
In the first chapter, the existing codicological descriptions of the manu-script have been considerably complemented and corrected at several points:
for instance, the sections on folio and page numbering and on gatherings and catchwords also contain some new information gained through the thorough study of the codex. The section on the scribes of the manuscript unequivocally rejects the still quite widespread idea that Janus Pannonius was the scribe of the manuscript; István Kapitánffy’s argumentation has been confirmed and justified with further arguments on this issue. Still, some new questions have also been raised regarding the scribes of the manuscript in the course of the in-depth description of the handwritings. The content of the manuscript has been discussed in more details than in the previous descriptions. Furthermore, the so far unknown source of a section (Corporis humani partes, ff. 327r-328v) has also been identified and the version found in the manuscript ÖNB Suppl. Gr. 45 has been collated with its edition.
In the second chapter, the revelation and successful identification of the third book-plate hiding under the upper two, already known exlibrises have contributed to a most precise reconstruction of the provenience of the manuscript. The assumption that the codex ÖNB Suppl. Gr. 45 was once part of the stock of King Matthias Corvinus’s royal library has also been confirmed with indirect evidence (Taddeo Ugoleto, the royal librarian’s use of the manuscript and Johann Cuspinianus’s possessorship).
In the third chapter, Goetz’s list of 15th- and 16th-century codices recentiores containing the Greek-Latin dictionary has been enlarged with some further items. Through the process of collation with various manuscripts, several further codices (Suppl. Gr. 47 and Mon. Gr. 142 and 253) have been eliminated from the contemporary candidates.
In the fourth chapter, the glossary notes inserted in the margins of the Greek-Latin dictionary in the manuscript ÖNB Suppl. Gr. 45 have been divided
into groups and then analysed in meticulous detail regarding their content and sources. As for the first major group of marginal notes of predominantly Greek literary origin, Aristophanic glossary notes have been carefully col-lated with the modern editions of the scholia to Nubes and Plutus, which also helped the identification of their sources. The glossary notes of legal content have never been examined in such depth so far; their thorough study also contributed to the identification of their source, the Synopsis Major Basilicorum.
The collation of the codex ÖNB Suppl. Gr. 45 with the Madrid manuscript Σ I 12 has proved to be extremely productive both for the examination of the textual history and for the mapping of the source of the major group of glossary notes containing mainly Greek literary quotations. Based on the results of this collation, one can risk the assumption that at a certain point of the textual tradition the extensive Greek-Latin dictionary, the Latin-Greek dictionary and the short thematic list of tree names were handed down as a whole, organic lexicographical unit, where the Greek-Latin dictionary was extended and enlarged with a rich material of glossary notes quoting mainly Aristophanic scholia, the SBM and some Greek prose writers. The high num-ber of these glossary notes clearly suggests that their addition was the result of a conscious and deliberate process aiming at the systematic broadening of the original lexicographical material found in the Greek-Latin dictionary.
Still, the analysis of further contemporary manuscripts would be necessary to map this assumed branch of the tradition adequately.
A further major result of the research work is the revelation of the fact that the other main group of marginal notes of predominantly lexicographi-cal content written mainly in Latin and at times in Greek or in Italian can ultimately be traced back to another tradition of Greek-Latin lexica. This can be convincingly proved with the results of the collation with three representatives of this alternative tradition found in the manuscripts Vat.
Pal. Gr. 194, Cod. Gr. 4 and Res. 224. In this way, the manuscript ÖNB Suppl.
Gr. 45 contains a Greek-Latin dictionary that effectively combines two dif-ferent traditions of bilingual lexica, which was not an unusual or unique phenomenon in contemporary manuscripts.
However, the fact that both major groups of glossary notes seem to origi-nate from a purely lexicographical tradition rather than a literary one implies that the identification of the person of the glossator(s) is hardly possible on the basis of the textual tradition or the content of the glossary notes quoted
or referred to in the margins as it had been assumed earlier. Still, the lexi-cographical material found in the manuscript ÖNB Suppl. Gr. 45 deserves further attention and is worth exploiting in the study of Janus Pannonius’s translations from Greek to Latin and his Greek vocabulary.
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