De contemptu mundi et de contemplationis perfectione (cód. 311 da Biblioteca Città di Arezzo): edição e confronto com a edição da Patologia Graeca (1865)

Abstract

This work consists of a paleographic edition of the work De contemptu mundi et de contemplationis perfectione present in codex 311 of the Città di Arezzo Library, accompanied by an apparatus of the variants referring to the edition of Patrologia Graeca of this text, published in 1865. In the introduction, it is justified the edition of this work, highlighting thecontributions that this edition presents for different fields of knowledge. In the first chapter, we present data on the author of the edited work, Isaac of Nineveh, on his doctrine and on the tradition of his work. In the second chapter, a codological and paleographic description of codex 311 of the Città di Arezzo Library is done. In the third chapter, it is justified the type ofedition adopted, based on Cambraia (2005) and Vilaça (2008), the norms used for the paleographic transcription of the text and for the elaboration of the apparatus of variants are informed, the edited text is presented, and, at the end, some loci critici relevant to the Latin tradition of the work are pointed out. In the final considerations, the contributions of thiswork are commented.