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  • Material: parchment
  • Bookformat: codex
  • Page dimensions: cm 21,5 x 29,5
  • Hand(s) and Date: 1st hand, 11th-12th c., responsible of the Homeric text and marginal scholia. 2nd hand, slightly more recent, of a corrector of the poetic text. 3rd hand, somewhat more recent, which made further annotations in a darker ink tending to grey.
  • Provenance: Constantinople.
  • Owner: Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana
  • Catalogue: Bandini 1764-1770, 2.124-125.
  • Print images: Bernabò 2011, 66, pl. 2 (f. 198v).
  • Digital Images: Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Digital Library (plut. 32.3).
  • Literary works attested: Homer, Iliad, with marginal scholia; Pseudo-Homer, Batracomiomachia.
  • Editions (scholia to Homer’s Iliad): Erbse 1969-1988.
  • Sample page: f. 168v: Homer, Il. 10.191-208 with frame scholia.
  • Type of paratext: anonymous scholia mainly of the class of exegetica.
  • Text–paratext relationship: The 1st hand copied the poetical text and the scholia all over the three outer margins. Text and scholia are connected by numbers. According to his habit, the scribe in a first time omitted a rather long scholium on l. 194 and later retrieved it by transcribing it in the lower margin and linking it to the Homeric text, out of numerical order, with a symbol (asterisk).
  • The scholia are connected to the text by numbers.
  • Repertories: Arca 8595; Diktyon 16269.
  • Bibliography: Branca 1981; Jackson 1998; Petitmengin-Ciccolini 2005; Pontani 2005; Maniaci 2006; Montana 2011; Mazzucchi 2012; Dué et al. 2014; Montanari et al. 2017; Morantin 2017; Montana 2020; Maniaci 2021; Mondini 2021.