Ms.Venezia, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Marc. Gr. Z. 453 (821) metadata
Material: parchment
Bookformat: codex
Page dimensions: cm 40,5 x 31,5
Hand(s) and date: 1st hand 11th c., responsible of both the Homeric text and frame scholia; 2nd hand 12th-13th c. (*B Erbse), responsible of the addition of D-scholia and glosses drawn from lexica and Epimerismi; the same hand, or another one slightly later, added in the far margins extracts from Prophyry’s Homeric Questions and Ps.-Heraclitus’ Homeric Allegories; 3rd hand, 14th c., responsible of extracts from the Etymologicum Magnum, Suda, Epimerismi Homerici, and further grammatical works.
Literary works attested: Homer, Iliad, with marginal scholia; AP. 9.385; Porphyrius’ HomericQuestions on the Iliad (extracts); Ps.-Heraclitus, Homeric Allegories (extracts).
Sample page: f. 67r: Homer, Il. 5.211-234 with marginal scholia.
Typeofparatext: anonymous scholia, mainly of the class of the exegetica.
Text–paratext relationship: the 1st hand copied the poetical text and the frame of scholia, distributed in the upper, external, and lower margins. The 1st hand scholia are connected to the text thanks to a number sequence, which starts from α΄ at the beginning of each verso and continues till the end of the corresponding recto. Only in exceptional cases, the 1st hand interposes scholia connected to the literary text through symbols among those with the number system, often not in keeping with the sequence of the Homeric text (cf. Maniaci 2006, 287 ff.). The additions made by subsequent hands are connected to the text thanks to symbols and generally appear as close as possible to the line where the commented part is to be found, regardless of whether this causes a sequence of scholia which is not consistent with that of the literary text. No lemma is present.
