Duplicated Excerpts in Byzantine Anthologies: A Typological Study

Abstract

The objective of this article can be easily stated: to analyse the different possible scenarios that might account for the presence of ‘the same fragment’ in different anthologies. We consider two or more fragments in different anthologies to be the ‘same’ or ‘duplicated’ when they share, substantially, the same content.1Usually, they will have a similar incipitand desinit, though this is not always required. The typology we offer arose from the practical need to cat-egorize the relationship between fragments presentin the 9th-or 10th-century Byzantine alphabetical anthology known as Florilegium Coislinianum.