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Woman repels pirates: note in a Florentine manuscript

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2016

George T. Dennis*
Affiliation:
Catholic University

Extract

A miscellaneous manuscript in the Mediceo-Laurentian Library in Florence, Conventi soppressi, 20, contains, on fol. 73v, a brief notice about a woman on the Karian coast, a fearsome archer, who repelled two pirate ships. A date, ζωμθ (= 1341), is also written in, presumably the date of the event recorded. The manuscript contains works of Maximos Planoudis; the notice in question follows a poem on meter. The following folio, 74, begins works of Libanius, the first being ‘epistolomaei characteres’. Text (editio princeps) and translation of the notice follow.

Type
Short Notes
Copyright
Copyright © The Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham 1999

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References

1. Rostagno, E. and Festa, N., ‘Indice dei codici greci Laurenziani non compresi nel catalogo del Bandini’, Studi italiani di filologia classica 1 (1893) 129232 Google Scholar.