George Hermonymus
George Hermonymus (
Collège de Sorbonne in Paris
.
Life
Although he claimed to originally be from
Gemistus Pletho
.
Hermonymus first went to Milan where he worked as a copyist and then to Paris as there was a great need for a Greek teacher and translator at the time. Hermonymus arrived at Paris in 1476, worked as a copyist at the French court.
Later, as a lecturer at the Sorbonne he took advantage of the vast collection of
Hermonymus was also involved in diplomacy. In 1475 he was sent to the
Edward IV of England
.
Manuscripts written by Hermonymus
- Minuscule 30 (Gregory-Aland)
- Minuscule 70 (Gregory-Aland)
- Minuscule 287 (Gregory-Aland)
- Minuscule 288 (Gregory-Aland)
- Minuscule 880 (Gregory-Aland)
See also
- French humanism
- Greek scholars in the Renaissance
References
Sources
- Jonathan Harris, Greek Émigrés in the West, 1400-1520 (Camberley: Porphyrogenitus, 1995). ISBN 1-871328-11-X
- Jonathan Harris, 'Greek scribes in England: the evidence of episcopal registers', in Through the Looking Glass: Byzantium through British Eyes, ed. Robin Cormack and Elizabeth Jeffreys, Aldershot UK: Ashgate, 2000, pp. 121–6. ISBN 978-0-86078-667-2
- Maria P. Kalatzi, Hermonymos: A Study in Scribal, Literary and Teaching Activities in the Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Centuries, Athens, 2009. ISBN 978-960-250-420-8
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