Medieval and Early Modern Greek Manuscripts : Dialogue with a Latin teacher

Koréssios, Geṓrgios

Medieval and Early Modern Greek Manuscripts

<p style='text-align: justify;'> This quire is part of a collection of fragments bought by Cambridge University Library from Constantin von Tischendorf's heirs in 1876. It contains a part of George Koressios's <i><i>Dialogue with a Latin teacher</i></i>; the preceding part of the text is in another of Tischendorf's fragments, <a target='_blank' class='externalLink' href='http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-ADD-01880-00013'>Cambridge, University Library, MS Add. 1880.13</a>; they were originally part of the same manuscript, together with another of Tischendorf's fragments, <a target='_blank' class='externalLink' href='http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-ADD-01880-00017'>Cambridge, University Library, MS Add. 1880.17</a>. Georgios Koressios, native of Chios, was lecturer in Greek at the University of Pisa from 1609-1615 and is known for his dispute with Galileo Galilei about floating bodies. </p><p style='text-align: justify;'>Dr Erika Elia</p>