Hands and Date: four hands, if the same scribe copied both Sophocles and Dionysius Periegetes (the watermark is the same and the hand appears to be very similar); otherwise, five. Hand 1: Life of Saint George Martyr from Cappadocia (ff. 1r-2r) occupying two original blank leaves (Bandini 1768, 83), and, probably, a personal note (f. 244v) at the very end of the manuscript. Hand 2: five tragedies of Aeschylus, preceded by the Life of Aeschylus (ff. 3r-128r). Two unnumbered blank leaves. Hand 3a: two tragedies of Sophocles with scholia (ff. 129r-180r). Two unnumbered blank leaves. Hand 3b: Dionysius Periegetes (ff. 181r-207r). Two unnumbered blank leaves. Hand 4: Lycophron with scholia (ff. 208r-244v). All the hands are unidentified, but Hand 2 (called “scribe of F”) was one who “worked with Triclinius” (Smith 1982b, 328) or, at least, “collaborated with scribes working in close connection with Triclinius” (Smith 1992, 198). 1374 is a terminus ante quem for the combining of this composite manuscript. Hand 2 is earlier than 1348 (Smith 1975, 13) and has been dated either to “a date around 1320” (Smith 1992, 199), copying proto-triclinian scholia, or to “1335-1348” (West 1990b, 349) with a selection of scholia from the final edition of Aeschylus by Triclinius (T = Neap. II.F.31, dated ca. 1330).
Literary works attested: (I) Life of Saint George Martyr from Cappadocia; (II) Aeschylus [cod. F], Life of Aeschylus, Prometheus (with hypothesis), Seven against Thebes, Persians, Agamemnon (with hypothesis), Eumenides (with hypothesis); (III) Sophocles [cod. Za], Ajax, Electra; (IV) Dionysius Periegetes [cod. λ2], Description of the World; (V) Lycophron, Alexandra.
Editions (metrical scholia F Aesch. Pers.): Dindorf 1851, 518-521; Smith 1975, 246-252.
Sample page: f. 69v: Aesch. Pers. 1008-1036 with scholia.
Type of paratext: scholia; nomen personae.
Text-paratext relationship: the same hand wrote the text and the paratext.
The triclinian scholia are longer and focused on the metrical composition of groups of cola: they have been written in the margins of the text, either on the left or on the right, and marked with a cross.
Other metrical scholia are shorter and referred to single cola or verses: they have been written in the left margin or in the interlinear spaces.
