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The manuscript preserves the entire collection of the hymnic tradition. 1) Orpheus, Hymni (ff. 2r-35r) (Malamis 2024): I with the prefatory poem, II-XV (1-11), XVI, XVII (1-10), XVIII-LIX (1-21); LX-LXV, LXI-LVXII, LXIII-LXXX (1-5); LXXXI-LXXXVII. 2) Proclus, Hymns (ff. 35v-39r); (Berg 2001): I-V (III and IV joined); 3) [Homerus], Hymns (ff. 39r-89v); (Càssola 1975): I and II joined – IV, VI-XVIII (1-12); XIX-XXVI (1-13); XXVII-XXXII (1-19); XXXIII. On f. 39, upper margin: Epigram (AP IX 48). 4) Moschus, Amor Fugitivus (ff. 90r-90v); 5) Musaeus, De Herone et Leandro (ff. 91r-97v), vv. 1-245; (Hopkins 2015). 6) Callimachus, Hymns with marginal scholia and interlinear glosses (ff. 98v-128v) (Pfeiffer 1953), as follows: To Zeus (Εἰς Δία), ff. 98v-101r, l. 9; To Apollo (Εἰς Ἀπόλλωνα), ff. 101r, l. 10-104r, l. 15; To Artemis (Εἰς Ἄρτεμιν), ff. 104r, l. 16-111v, l. 14; To Delos (Εἰς Δῆλον), ff. 111v, l. 15-120v; On the Bath of Pallas (Εἰς λουτρὰ τῆς Παλλάδος), ff. 121r-124v; To Demeter (Εἰς Δήμητρα), ff. 125r-128v. After the end of the sixth Hymn of Callimachus (f. 128v) there is an excerpt from the Commentarii in Canones Cosmae Hiersolymitani et Joannis Damasceni by Theodorus Prodromus. 7) In the final part of the codex are preserved the Epinicia of Pindar (Olympian [Gentili et al. 2015], Pythian [Gentili et al. 1995], Nemean [Cannatà Fera 2020], and Isthmian Odes [Privitera 1982]: ff. 132r-295v), descending in part from the tradition of Demetrius Triclinius, sometimes preceded by metrical annotations (ff. 219; 222; 229; 236; 247r–248v), likewise attributable to the learned scholar of the Palaiologan age. Only in some cases is the text transmitted with interlinear and marginal scholia, belonging to Thomas Magister (Pyth. I, III-XI; Nem. I-XI; Isth. 5; 7). The poems are distributed as follows: Olympian I-XIV (f. 183); Pythian I-XIII (f. 249); Nemean I-XI (f. 286); Isthmian I-III (II-III joined), IV-VII. Folios left blank: ff. 129-131; 177r-181v; 295v-303r; and, at the end of the works, empty spaces are left on ff. 35r, 90v, 97v, 98r, 176v, 219v, 221v, 222v, 223v, 243v, 244v, 246v, 248v, 295, and 315v.