Some Observations on the Text of Ps.-Zonaras

Abstract

Ps.-Zonaras’ Lexicon has not received much critical attention. The following observations are intended to make sense of some textual oddities and to identify the sources of a handful of enigmatic entries. These notes are based on the only available edition of this work by Johann August Heinrich Tittmann, which was published over two centuries ago. At the outset it must be noted that in Tittmann’s edition text marked by cruces (†–†) indicates that it is found in only one of the three manuscripts which Tittmann used for the preparation of his edition, the apographon Kulenkampianum (K). This was a thirteenth-century manuscript collated by Lüder Kulenkamp; unfortunately, it has since been lost.