Hand(s) and date: 1st hand 11th c. (either 1014 or 1059, according to the subscriptio, that attests to the completion of the manuscript on Saturday 18th September, in the 13th indiction), responsible of the Homeric text, as well as marginal and interlinear scholia; 2nd hand 13th c., responsible of the addition of D-scholia and grammatical or etymological explanations; 3rd hand 15th c., responsible for titles and argumenta at the beginning of each book.
Digitalimages: www.homermultitext.org/codex-browser/
NB The BL page (https://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=burney_ms_86_fs001r) is still unavailable (April 2025), due to the cyber-attack of October 2023.
Literary works attested: Homer, Iliad, with marginal and interlinear scholia; Pseudo-Homer, Epigrammata.
Editions:Maass 1887-1888; Erbse 1969-1988 (scholia to Homer’s Iliad).
Sample page: f. 113r: Homer, Il. 11.316-342 with marginal and interlinear scholia.
Typeofparatext: anonymous scholia, mainly of the class of exegetica.
Text–paratext relationship: The frame scholia are distributed in the upper, external, and lower margins, occasionally also in the inner one, and sometimes even in the gap between the Homeric text and the scholia in the external margin. The connection between text and marginal scholia is provided by symbols written in red ink. The interlinear scholia are written directly over the word to which they refer, without any further mean of connection.
Repertories: Arca 13262; Diktyon 39351.
Bibliography: Blackwell – Dué – Ebbott – Smith 2014, 7, 8 n. 23; Cataldi Palau 1995, 67 n. 26, 70, 81, 85, 86, 90, 91; Comunetti, in press; Crostini 2018, 140 n. 18; Erbse 1969-1988, I, XXVI-XXVIII; Fryde 2000, 43-44; Maass 1887-1888; Maniaci 2006; Maniaci 2021; Montana 2020; Morantin 2017; Pagani 2020; Pontani 2011, 150-151, 213, 454; Pontani 2016, 317-318; Sodano 1970, XIII.
