Re: VMs: George of Trebizond...?

[Rene Zandbergen <r_zandbergen@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I now very much look forward to seeing Collecteana
> Trapezuntii for myself, 
> which will almost certainly describe Trebizond's
> horoscope! :-)
> 
> Cheers, .....Nick Pelling.....
> 
> PS: if someone else gets there first, can they
> please post details to the 
> list? [Phil - when will you next be in the BL?] :-)

There are two works of Monfasani on Trebizond 
in the Brill series. You may find the earlier one
(A biography and a study of his rhetoric and 
logic) more interesting. It gave me the idea
that Trebizond was remarkably well equipped
to be the VMs writer. It also contains some
details about his horoscope - no picture IIRC.
And the wonderful detail that, as a sexagenarian,
he was a bit too fond of pretty young girls.
Any good old VMs enthousiast, ready to jump to
conclusions (aren't we all? ) will understand
the significance of that :-)

Did Trebizond ever see the copy of Ptolemy's
handy tables that are now Vat.Gr.1291? It's 
by itself extremely likely. If he did, he may
well have written about it. John Monfasani 
might even know. I actually never contacted him
about the VMs since IMHO this is such a long
shot, but Nick, if you are already in contact
with him, it might be possible to find out.

The second: the Collectanea (2 vols IIRC.)
was published later. 
It includes a few samples of his handwriting,
and these are one of the main reasons why
I doubt he wrote the VMs. He is Greek, and his
handwriting of Greek is the typical bumpy stuff
(I don't know how to explain it - it just does not
look very elegant). His Latin looks a bit similar.

The handwriting of his son, on the other hand, has
a typical elegant humanist trait. 

Some of the books on the (good old) Vatican Exhibit
at the Library of Congress could also be from
George's hand but I am not sure about that.

FWIW,
    Cheers,
           Rene

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