L’edizione delle opere di Teodoro II Lascari tra Nicea e Costantinopoli

The edition of the works of Theodore II Laskaris between Nicaea and Constantinople. The essay re-examines the traditional hypothesis concerning the multi-volume edition of the works of Theodore II Laskaris, proposing a new reconstruction of the transmission of his secular writings. In this context, the previously almost neglected MS Vat. gr. 1938 is newly evaluated. Being copied by the same scribe and sharing the same codicological features as MS Paris. Suppl. gr. 472, it forms, together with the latter, an edition of the secular works (Physikē koinōnia and the Discourses) likely derived from the official one commissioned by the emperor himself and provided with his own portrait. The final part of the paper focuses on the circulation of Aristotelian manuscripts at the Byzantine court in Nicaea, with particular attention to MS Vat. Barb. gr. 136, whose second unit was written by the scribe also responsible for MS Ambr. C 308 inf., which contains Theodore’s Sacred Discourses.