International congress of byzantine studies belgrade, 22 27 august 2016

Ilse De Vos
Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium; 
[e-mail]
Bridging the Gap: How to Edit the Slavonic 
Quaestiones ad Antiochum ducem?
As will be demonstrated elsewhere in this session, the Slavonic tradition of the 
Quaestiones ad 
Antiochum ducem 
(
CPG 
2257) is marked by various moments of contact with its Greek counterpart. 
In an attempt to bridge the gap between the two, the Slavonic text was put up for revision several 
times. The compound nature of the 
Quaestiones 
complicates things even further. The most complete 
Greek manuscripts contain as many as 137 
erotapokriseis
, only a small number of which were 
initially translated. Also, the collection’s long-lasting and widespread popularity means hundreds of 
manuscripts in both Greek and Slavonic (and in fact other languages as well) need to be consulted.
While mapping out the Slavonic tradition of the 
Quaestiones 
- which is highly conflated and 
thus anything but linear - and work out how it relates to the surviving Greek material, the question 
quickly arose what kind of edition would do justice to the text. For example, how to distinguish 
from one another the different stages in the transmission and incorporate relevant Greek versions 
without inflating the edition to such an extent that it becomes impossible to navigate through 
(except maybe for the editors themselves)?
After presenting a sample edition of a handful of 
erotapokriseis 
as preserved in a manageable 
number of manuscripts (both Slavonic and Greek), we hope to start a fruitful discussion as to what 
is desirable (and doable) in case of the 
Quaestiones 
and by extension multilingual textual traditions 
in general.

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