Un copista di Planude. Platone ed Elio Aristide in moderne e arcaizzanti di XIII secolo [(Lo scriba B del Vind. Phil. gr. 21 e i codici Marc. gr. 481 e Laur. Plut. 60.8; un nuovo codice in arcaizzante, il Par. Coisl. 322)]

In a Plato manuscript now in Wien, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Phil. gr. 21 (Y), copied by Planudes, Nicephorus Moscopoulos and other ‘shadowy figures’ of the Palaeologan Age, the second hand (Scribe B) is the same as the second hand (Scribe B) of the codex of Venezia, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, gr. 481(Planudean Anthology). The ‘scribe B’ has been identified also in a manuscript of Aelius Aristides (Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 60.8); Plato and Aristides have been studied by Gregory of Cyprus in some miscellaneous manuscripts, and transcribed by anonymous scribes both in modern and arcaizing minuscule of the XIII-XIV centuries, one of them responsible also for the copy of the archaising Coisl. 322, containing Proclus’ Commentary on Timaeus. A significant role has to be attributed to the influence of the Patriarch and to his books