What is it about?
The present contribution offers not only an in-depth analysis of the manuscript tradition, but also a new edition of the so-called Ad neophytos de patientia [CPG 7707.32]. With an attribution to four different authors (Gregory of Nazianzus, Maximus the Confessor, Ps. Macarius / Symeon and Clemens of Alexandria) this text has enjoyed quite some attention in scholarly research, but the extant editions still left room for important improvement, both as concerns the stemma and as concerns the number of mss. collated. Moreover, for the first time also a further development of this text is edited, dubbed Traditio Maximiana alterata by us. It is preserved in a single manuscript now in Paris, but probably stems from 14th-century Thessalonica.
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Why is it important?
This is the first time all known manuscripts and all previous editions of the relatively short, but elegant paraenetic text, known as Ad neophytos de patientia [CPG 7707.32] are taken into account. As such, the basis of this critical edition is much more solid than that of previous editions. Moreover, the article contains the editio princepts of a further development of the text, dating from the 14th century.
Perspectives
The case of the Ad neophytos de patientia again shows that it is imperative to take into account the whole of a text's manuscript tradition. It is the only way to have a solid basis on which to base one's conclusions.
Dr Bram Roosen
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
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This page is a summary of: Precepts for a Tranquil Life, A new edition of the Ad neophytos de patientia [CPG 7707:32], Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik, January 2015, Osterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften,
DOI: 10.1553/joeb64s247.
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