La chaîne C57.1 sur les douze prophètes : un état des lieux

Only one witness of the catena C57.1 on the twelve minor prophets is known today, the manuscript of Turin, Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria, B.I.2 (10th c.), unfortunately so damaged that the catena is largely illegible. The aim of this paper is to present new witnesses of the catena and to show how interesting it would be to publish it. There are in fact two other manuscripts that contain the entire catena and a third one that only transmits the introductory texts. These witnesses attest to its originality: the catena transmits not only fragments of Cyril of Alexandria and Theodoret of Cyrrhus, but also extracts from Hesychius of Jerusalem and Hypatios, as well as a large number of unidentified scholia. These are of various kinds, ranging from short stylistic and grammatical scholia to lengthy allegorical interpretations.