Kurbanov, A., & Spyridonova, L. (2025). An Unknown Opuscule by Barlaam of Calabria in Vaticanus Graecus 671 Misattributed to Theodore Prodromos: An Edition and Translation. Scrinium, 21(1), 146-162. https: ...

Abstract

Codex Vaticanus graecus 671 (c. 1350), ff. 204–209v, contains an anti-Latin treatise on the procession of the Holy Spirit that was erroneously attributed to Theodore Prodromos. Closer examination of the text reveals that the treatise is in fact a work by Barlaam of Calabria, composed in response to debates in Constantinople during the 1330s. This discovery is significant because Vaticanus graecus 671 preserves a fragment of the lost original version of Barlaam’s anti-Latin treatise – a version that triggered his disagreement with Gregory Palamas. The text under consideration includes two passages that were later reworked as two opuscules of Barlaam of Calabria’s Treatise against the Latins A, along with a previously unknown opuscule addressing Latin objections from the Holy Scriptures. This paper offers an edition and translation of this newly discovered opuscule, which has been reconstructed from a manuscript severely damaged by water.

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