Brill’s New Pauly Supplements I - Volume 2 : Dictionary of Greek and Latin Authors and Texts

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Physiologus
(583 words)

dating from the 2nd cent. AD

Works

Anonymous Christian typology of nature, written in Greek.

Manuscripts

Transmitted in 4 editions, of which editions 2–4 represent revisions of the oldest and also most important first edition. In total, approximately 80 Greek manuscripts are known.

Editions

The definitive edition is by Francesco Sbordone (1936), taking into account all manuscripts of the first edition.

Translations

Ancient and …

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Hagelberg, Leonie, “Physiologus”, in: Brill’s New Pauly Supplements I - Volume 2 : Dictionary of Greek and Latin Authors and Texts, English edition by Tine Jerke and Volker Dallman (2009). Original German-language edition: Geschichte der antiken Texte: Autoren- und Werklexikon. Herausgegeben von Manfred Landfester in Verbindung mit Brigitte Egger. Serie: Der Neue Pauly – Supplemente, 1. Staffel, herausgegeben von Hubert Cancik, Manfred Landfester und Helmuth Schneider, Band 2. Stuttgart, Germany. Copyright © J.B. Metzlersche Verlagsbuchhandlung und Carl Ernst Poeschel Verlag GmbH (2007). Consulted online on 08 December 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2214-8647_bnps2_COM_0173>
First published online: 2011
First print edition: 9789004167834, 20090831



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