Detailed Description of the Callimachean section (ff. 98v-128v)

The Callimachean section of the manuscript (ff. 98v-128v) includes the Hymns and the scholia apparatus, copied by Demetrios Damilas, probably during his period of activity in Florence (1475-1485).

The ruling frame is executed in drypoint, made with a mastara, showing no evidence of pricking. The edges are richly decorated, in gold, red, and green, in the Cretan manner.

The text is arranged in 18 lines per page, with the first line ‘below top line’.

The layout of each folio is almost consistent, characterized by a clear, orderly, and well-balanced distribution between the text of Hymns and the space reserved for the para-text. The scholia are written in the margins, perfectly organized in columns and always at the same distance from the verses, while the glosses occupy the interlinear space. The correspondence between the commentary and the poetic text is made particularly clear not only by the spatial arrangement of the scholia – regularly positioned on the same horizontal line as the lemma they refer to – but also by the presence of semeia in red ink, placed both before each scholion and above the corresponding word in the poetic text.