In a 1735 book I found a nice page with a listing of abbreviations in Greek manuscripts. The book is Johannes Alberti,
Glossarium Graecum in sacros Novi Foederis libros. Ex MSS. primus edidit, notisque inlustravit ... Accedunt eiusdem miscellanea critica in glossas nomicas, Suidam, Hesychium et index auctorum ex Photii lexico inedito (Leiden: Luchtmans, 1735).
It was really the time that critics such as Wettstein and Alberti started to carefully study minuscule NT manuscripts, and also the additional information found therein, such as scholia and lists, etc..
Of course those scholars had to learn how to read the handwriting. The image below, in a way, records how Alberti did just that.
It is a folded sheet, between the preliminary matter and the first page of the
Glossarium proper. I found the book at Google Books (just try "inauthor:alberti intitle:glossarium"), but the table was only partly visible, because the GB operators more often than not do not bother folding out such pages. Luckily, the book is available in various copies, with different ways of folding the page, so that it was possible to reconstruct the complete page.
4 comments:
Thanks Jan,
Is there a pag. 2?
I don't know; the GB copies did not show any and the list for the second section of the book itself looks complete; however there are some more sections, and the page is indeed marked "pag. 1". The answer can only be found in a real library.
This is cool!
Thanks Jan. A question: What resources do you recommend for Abb. of the latin mss?
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