Nouveaux témoins manuscrits de la chaîne de Polychronios sur le Cantique (CPG C 83)

Up to the present, 18 manuscript witnesses (excluding a few fragmentary ones) are known of the catena on the Song of Songs that is attributed to a certain Polychronius the Deacon and which has not yet been edited critically. In this article, several additional manuscripts are identified, which have been copied in the 12th to 17th centuries. Firstly, four codices are listed that contain the complete catena but have escaped the attention of previous scholarship. Secondly, two partial witnesses are identified: one of them is a printed book that contains handwritten sections of the catena and the other is a manuscript in which the catena of Polychronius is used as one of three sources that together form a new exegetical compilation. Thirdly and finally, three unknown manuscripts are presented that contain (parts of) the prologues to the catena of Polychronius, although they do not witness to the catena itself. In drawing attention to all of these manuscripts, the article aims to contribute to the project of a critical edition of this catena and to the appreciation of its transmission history and reception.status: publishe