Hand(s) and Date: three main hands working in the early 10th century AD (Cavallo 2019): hand A (ff. 1r-118r: Sophocles, Ai., El., OR, Ant., Tr., Ph., OC); hand B (ff. 119r-126v: Aeschylus, Pers. 1-705; ff. 190r-263v r. 10: Apollonius Rhodius); hand C (127r-188r: Aeschylus, Pers. 706-1077, Ag., Ch., Pr., Eu., Sept., Suppl.; ff. 263v-264v: subscription, two bioi of Apollonius Rhodius and a catalogue of the Argonauts). The hand B seems to have been responsible also for the scholia and the revision of the text.
Editions (scholia to Aeschylus): Dähnhardt 1894 (scholia to Persae); Smith 1976 (scholia to Agamemnon, Choephori, Eumenides); Smith 1982 (scholia to Septem contra Thebas).
Sample page: f. 123r: Aeschylus, Persae, ll. 341-384.
Type of paratext: scholia; nomen personae.
Text-paratext relationship:
The hand who wrote the scholia, in small capitals, has been identified by Cavallo (2019, 10s.) with the hand B, the same who is responsible for the poetic text in this section (for different identifications, see Merkel 1854, CLXXXVIII and Orsini 2005, 308 [hand C]; Rostagno 1896, 11s. and Turyn 1943, 18 [hand D, i.e. a fourth hand different from all those who wrote the poetic texts].
The scholia are generally aligned with the verse they refer to, and for this reason are often without a lemma, with the exception of schol. 355 (ἀνὴρ γὰρ Ἕλλην· …), which begins near v. 352. The scholium to v. 378 is linked to the poetic text through a symbol.
