Su alcuni frammenti in «stile di reggio» nel codice Planensis eccl. s. Demetrii 2: una prima ricognizione

Abstract

This contribution aims to present the first results of a new survey of the Greek manuscript holdings of the library of the Seminary of the Eparchy of Piana degli Albanesi (near Palermo). These correspond only in part to those recorded in the old catalogue of Elpidio Mioni. Of particular note are a couple of fragments coming from a now lost Gospel-book copied in the «script of Reggio», which were hither- to unknown to scholars and were found within the Planensis Eccl. S. Demetrii 2, an Apostolo-Evangeliarion of the thirteenth century. The latter codex, which has an aspect that is typically provincial, is here described in detail. Through the analysis of some notes that it contains, such as that of the protopapas of Messina Francesco Accida – who made a gift of this codex to pope Sixtus V in 1585 –, it becomes possible to speculate on how the codex might have arrived at its present-day place of preservation.