Niceforo Gregora e la Theotokos: osservazioni sulla tradizione manoscritta dell’In nativitatem et praesentationem Deiparae (BHG 1079)

This paper focuses on a new witness of the In nativitatem et praesentationem Deiparae, a pamphlet written by Nikephoros Gregoras. The work, now preserved in the manuscript Venezia, Biblioteca Marciana, gr. Z. 142, was copied by some collaborators of the author and was reviewed by him. Thanks to this discovery, a new analysis of the manuscript tradition of the pamphlet was carried out, a tradition that consists of four other manuscripts, A (Città del Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. gr. 1086), B (Città del Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Vat. gr. 1085), J (Jerusalem, Patriarchichē Bibliothēkē, Monē Abraham, 51) and K (Wien, Österreichischen National-Bibliothek, Hist. gr. 104). The material investigation and the collation of the text led to the reconstruction of two ‘editions’, both dating back to the author.