| The scribe Michael Lygizos or tou Lyngeos, active in the second half of the 15th century, was originally from the Cydonia area and had settled in Rethymnon. A student of the Byzantine scholar Michael Apostolis, he engaged in literary studies, writing among other works a commentary on the first 81 chapters of the first book of Thucydides, preserved in codex 231 of Trinity College Library, Dublin. He copied texts by Thucydides (British Museum, Arundel MS 545), Aristophanes (Trinity College Cambridge, MS R I 42) and Plotinus (Monacensis graecus 215), while his pen also produced a further 14 codices in the Bodleian Library and the Vatican. A letter from him to the priest Leon Argyros is published here. |