Parisinus graecus suppl. 209 – Pn

Previous descriptions: Omont (1888, 231).

Reproductions: –

Family: e

Siglum: Pn

Shelfmark: Parisinus graecus suppl. 209

Date: Middle of the 15th century, paper (except for I and 184 which are parchment)

Format: I +184 ff.

Material: paper of very good quality; the initial letter of each book is unpretentiously illuminated; the initial letter of each paragraph and chapter title is rubricated. The volume appears to have been an expensive artefact.

Binding: not original.

Watermarks: f. 3, 5, 7, etc., a standing bird, but quite dissimilar from the ones in Briquet.

Scribes: the entire manuscript is the work of a single scribe.

Annotations: on f. Iv Iulii Pollucis Onomasticon : est monachorum congregationis s. Iustinae ipsi s. Iustinae coenobio deputatus signatus n. 1742. Followed by a note bearing the name Bachinius. On the contribution of Benedetto BacchiniBenedetto Bacchini to the inventory of the congregation’s manuscript see Cantoni Alzati (1982, 27–8).

1 (ff. 1r‒112v). Pollux, Onomasticon. No title. Contains books 1 (ff. 1r‒28v), 2 (ff. 28v‒50v), 3 (ff. 51r‒62v), 4 (ff. 63r‒79r), 5 (ff. 79v‒91r), 6 (ff. 91v‒107v), 7 (ff. 107v‒126r), 8 (ff. 126r‒143r), 9 (ff. 143r‒160v), and 10 (ff. 161r‒180r); ff. 180v–181v are blank; (f. 182r) the same hand added some omitted paragraphs from Pollux: μελιττοῦντα (6.76) – τῶν δ’ἄλλων δῆλα τὰ ὀνόματα (6.82) and ἦσαν δέ τινες (6.83) – ὡς τὸ λίκνον ἀμετάνητα (6.87).

ff. 182v–184v: blank.

Until the 18th century, the manuscript belonged to the congregation of Santa Giustina in PaduaSanta Giustina (Padua), as stated in the annotation on f. Iv (see Cantoni Alzati 1928, 234). A few years later, in 1797, it was sent to the Bibliothèque Nationale de France by order of Gaspard MongeGaspard Monge, along with other manuscripts and incunabula (see Astruc 1960, 344–6; Giacomelli 2022, 37–8). The manuscript seems to be an apographon of Parisinus graecus 1868Par. gr. 1868 (Pa) up to 2.140, where Pa ends abruptly; it then presents a text copied from C or an apographon of it.