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The interest in Andronikos Kallistos, a leading personality among the Greek émigrés who participated in Italian Humanism, arose at the end of the nineteenth century within the frame of the studies on Byzantine scholars of the Renaissance. Researchers have only glimpsed the depth of Kallistos’ erudite personality. To date, nearly 130 manuscripts have been found bearing evidence of his work as a copyist and philologist. However, research into both his scribal and scholarly activity remains fragmented into many isolated contributions, mainly concerning specific chapters of the manuscript tradition of classical Greek authors. Adopting a synergistic approach to historical, philological, codicological, and paleographic data within this framework, this monograph study aims to fulfil the following tasks: outlining an updated biography; defining Kallistos’ scribal activity better by means of a thorough examination of all surviving manuscript sources; attempting to reconstruct the development of his book collection; acknowledging Kallistos’ scholarly activity both as a teacher and philologist; making an inventory of all the manuscripts which bear traces of his writing; and, finally, publishing Kallistos’ works.

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FrontmatterI

ContentsV

Introduction IX

1 Towards a new Bibliographical Profile1

2 Tracing Manuscripts in Time and Space: On Kallistos’ Scribal Activity!"51

3 The Fate of Andronikos’ Books131

4 Writing and Learning Greek at the School of Andronikos Kallistos169

5 From the Desk of a Byzantine Philologist191

6 Andronikos’ Traces in Manuscripts: A Summary Catalogue257

APPENDIX: TEXTS

1 Defence of Theodoros Gazes against Michael Apostoles365

2 Monody on wretched Constantinople459

3 Diairesis on the science of physics487

4 Letter to Palla Strozzi!499

5 Letters to Demetrios 503

6 Letter to Georgios Disypatos Palaiologos519

7 Epigram to Homer527

8 Epigram in praise of Bessarion’s book In Calumniatorem Platonis!529

9 Epigrams on the death of Albiera535

Plate537

Reference569

Index of names603

Index of manuscripts, incunabula, and archival sources613

Index of main watermarks623