Un trattato bizantino sulla sintassi preposizionale e la tradizione greca περὶ προθέσεων

The aim of this paper is to present the editio princeps of a Byzantine treatise on prepositional syntax, transmitted under the title περὶ προθέσεων. This text was first discovered some years ago by T. Martínez Manzano in a manuscript held in Salamanca – the scholar was impressed above all by the extraordinary density of ancient and classical literary quotations, by far exceeding the average of similar treatises. The discovery of three other witnesses of this text has led to the preparation of its first critical edition and has allowed to draw some conclusions about its genesis and chronology, namely Constantinople during the Palaeologan age (probably between the end of the 13th and the beginning of the 14th century). The study of this text has also given the opportunity to offer some remarks on the long – and little investigated – Greek tradition περὶ προθέσεων.