Lots of excitement on the Methodius manuscripts this morning — Adrian Tanasescu-Vlas has been through the STSL Ms. 40 and identified the works on Methodius in it. I’ll do some more on this after lunch. He confirms that De lepra is in there, which means that it is now possible to get someone who knows the language to translate it into English.
I’ve been thinking more about the Origen book, which hasn’t progressed in 18 months. This means that, without intervention, it will never be done. Possibly the way to progress this is to bring in a collaborator, charged with finishing it off.
Meanwhile the postman brought me a parcel which proved to contain a paperback of Mithras : de geheimzinnige god, complete with colour cover and a stiff-looking picture of Maarten Vermaseren on the back. I shall attempt to convert this into a PDF this afternoon, since it will be much more useful that way. I hope that I don’t destroy it in the process, but I have my doubts.
