p. 193
Luciano Canfora - compare to Travel Report of Lycourgas
p. 194
artificial minuscule script, which perhaps seeks to be inspired by traditional Byzantine scripts and which is very conspicuously characterized by the recurring presence of terminal thickenings in the form of a bubble.
4. Le altre opere litografate
La fantasmagorica messe di appunti, trascrizioni, disegni, brogliacci, escerti, etc. che ii presunto scambio epistolare con Callinico dispiega non si limita, peraltro, al solo volume degli A1TóyQapa: l'intero in-sieme delle opere litografate offre una serie di materiali ancora inesplo-rati di cui potrebbe essere interessante indagare, internamente, le rela-zioni reciproche, nonché le connessioni con ii resto dell'opera del falsa-rio. Presentiamo, per ora, di seguito una sommaria descrizione dei con-tenuti notevoli delle altre quattro opere litografate di Simonidis
4. The other lithographed works The phantasmagorical mass of notes, transcriptions, drawings, rough drafts, extracts, etc. that the alleged exchange of letters with Callinicus displays is not limited, however, to the volume of the A1TóyQapa: the entire set of lithographed works offers a series of still unexplored materials whose reciprocal relations could be interesting to investigate internally, as well as the connections with the rest of the forger's work. For now, we present below a summary description of the notable contents of the other four lithographed works by Simonidis
preserved in the volumes currently in Athens at the Gennadius Library BB 1226.68, BB 1226.68 copy 2, and BB 1226.69', in Oxford, Bodleian Library, Byw 1.6.4, and Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale de France J-6227. Fragments are also found in ms. 537 of the Patriarchal Library of Alexandria. The surviving volumes contain:
(1) presumed lithographic copy of a first letter of Simonidis to Callinicus, from Alexandria 11-27 August 1852, on Egyptological and Orientalist subjects, contains - it is perhaps useful to underline - mentions and extracts from the false Uranus of Simonidis [
(2) a second letter, still on an Egyptological subject, is addressed by Simonidis to Callinicus, from Alexandria, 30 August 1852;
(3) a third letter, addressed to Callinicus by Simonidis from Sinai on 16 April 1852, opens with notes on Nonnus of Panopolis, continues with a quotation from Dionigi on Theopompus, with the reproduction and transcription of three epigraphs, mentioning Theopompus, procured for the forger by Nicolaus Melissenus; Simonidis, moreover, reproduces and transcribes the text of a papyrus, which he says was found in the library of St. Catherine of Sinai; the letter ends with the lithographic reproduction and transcription of a sepulchral epigraph in presumed Lycian characters. (should mention history of St. Catherine's) (also they should be informed of the Rhodes copy with the 1854 dedication)
And more letters, maybe 5 total
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