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Resumen de La aportación bizantina a las ilustraciones de Meteorologica: a propósitodel mapamundi del Ms. Salamanca 2747

Inmaculada Pérez Martín

  • The map of the largest mountains and rivers that appears on f. 50v of Ms. Biblioteca General Histórica de la Universidad de Salamanca, 2747, released in 1900 by Charles Graux and André Martin in a publication that analyzed all the illustrations of that copy of the Meteorologica de Aristoteles, has remained unknown to most scholars of ancient geography and has never been studied in depth. The codicological and palaeographic analysis contextualizes the manufacture of this Byzantine codex, one of the primary textual testimonies of Meteorologica, in Constantinople around 1125-1150, in a circle of copying and illumination of high quality books. A twin and contemporary testimony of the text and its illustrative apparatus, in this case accompanied by Alexander of Aphrodisias’s Commentary on Meteorologica, is split into the Mss. Milano, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, E 93 sup. and Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, gr. 1880. A third codex with the illustrations of the two mentioned copies is the Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 87.26, from the second half of the 13th century. Some glosses of the Salamanca Ms. that would be found in the model, as well as some terms used in the figures and, especially, the choice of the Bosphorus as the axis around which the map of f. 50v is organized suggest that the illustrations in book I of Meteorologica were conceived and designed in the Byzantine period, in all probability in the 11th century, in the context of Michael Psellos’ († 1078/81) teaching of the Aristotelian text.


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