Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität Faszikel 7

The second volume of the Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität (LBG) is continued by the release of the 6th fascicle. It includes at first the final portion of the words beginning with pi, particularly the remaining verbal compounds beginning with the most productive prepositions p and p (again, the latter two often reflecting an uncertainty in the manuscript tradition or dated editions). Furthermore, in this section of the alphabet we find a large quantity of compounds beginning with pt()-, which are related to titles and professions inter alia. As for the lemmata beginning with rho, there are quite a few of Latin origin, especially the terms from legal literature. The greatest part, however, is reserved for the words beginning with sigma which are included completely; among these, compounds with s()- require most of the pages. Since the processing of the 6th fascicle, the number of editions which had to be newly excerpted or by which former editions had to replaced, has been steadily increasing. The most important of these, along with those of the 5th and 6th fascicle, are to be found in the new supplementary list of abbreviations enclosed with the 7th fascicle. And once again, it has been the electronic media which brought about further extension, first of all the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG) of which the most recent internet version has been used for comparison once more after the processing of the manuscripts in order to provide the highest possible actuality. Additionally, the supplementary list of papyri by Hagedorn and (for secondary literature) the supplement to the Repertorio bibliogrfico de la lexicografia griega have been exploited. Moreover, papyri have continuously been taken into account by the use of the CD-Rom released by the Packard Humanities Institute. On the whole, in comparison to the fascicles of the first volume (A-K), there has been an increase of considerably more than 10%. The problem (which arose during the processing of the 6th fascicle) that Kriaras` Lexicon is still engaged with the preparation of the lemmata beginning with pi, has once again been solved for the user by the constant upgrading of an index created from already existing word registers of vernacular (and also post-Byzantine) texts of which the most important works are named along with other lexica at the end of each entry. As a rule, they are dropped in case that reference provided by the other lexica and - increasingly - by the TLG respectively, is sufficient. Thus the presently inadequate documentation of the developement of posterior Byzantine Greek could reasonably be enhanced.