Valente’s book approaches the manuscript testimonies with a keen awareness of their formation and historical development, without dwelling on the superfluous task of describing the other texts they contain in detail, but using to its advantage and with subtlety the information extracted from them that is likely to illuminate the context of copying. It thus achieves a very desirable balance between too brief and excessively long descriptions that accumulate already-known and superfluous information; it also explains with great clarity the specific features of each testimony, both textual and codicological, and the relationships between them that chart the history of the text.

Stefano Valente. Nikephoros Blemmydes, 'Epitome Physica': Untersuchungen zur handschriftlichen Überlieferung. Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca et Byzantina – Series academica, volume 6. De Gruyter, 2021.

From Bryn Mawr Classical Review (BMCR). Review by Immaculada Pérez Martín, ILC-CSIC