Oriental borrowings in Medieval Greek:new evidence from the BnF manuscript Supplement persan 939

This article deals with a quadrilingual lexicon from a unique manuscript in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, which was compiled in 1439 and contains abundant material on Medieval Greek vocabulary and phraseology. The article analyses Oriental loan-words in the Greek part of the lexicon as evidence of Oriental influences on the Greek language during the late Byzantine period.