Un escolio de Nicéforo Gregorás sobre el alma del mundo en el "Timeo" (Vaticanus Graecus 228)

[EN] Vatiranus graecus 228 is a Plato's manuscript written in Constantinople in the early 14th Century, probably in the years 20-30, by Nicephours Gregoras, known historian and polymath and some of his fellows-scribes. This scholar, a disciple of Theodours Metochites, studied deeply Ptolomaeus&...

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Author: Pérez Martín, Inmaculada
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2004
Country:España
Institution:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repository:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/19322
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/19322
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:History of greek texts
Byzantine manuscripts
Byzantine scholars
Historia de los textos griegos
Manuscritos bizantinos
Eruditos bizantinos
Palaeography
Greek (classical)
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Summary:[EN] Vatiranus graecus 228 is a Plato's manuscript written in Constantinople in the early 14th Century, probably in the years 20-30, by Nicephours Gregoras, known historian and polymath and some of his fellows-scribes. This scholar, a disciple of Theodours Metochites, studied deeply Ptolomaeus' texts, as is known, and his interest on harmonic intervals is perhaps in the start of the diagramma he included in the margins of his copy of Timeo. His scholar is arithmetic development of the indications given by Plato on the demiurges' creation of the world's soul (Timeo 358-36B,l:. it's based on Timaeus of Locri De natura mundi et animae and wrobablv on Proclus' Commentary, but it goes further in defining intervals and consonants. A good example, then, of the work Palaeologan scholarship could produce on ancient texts.