Atheniensis Εθνική Βιβλιοθήκη της Ελλάδος 1089 – A

Previous descriptions: Sakkelion, Sakkelion (1892, 195–6); Sandri (2023, 116–26), on which I rely in this description.

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Family: π

Siglum: A

Shelfmark: Atheniensis Εθνική Βιβλιοθήκη της Ελλάδος 1089

Date: this manuscript consists of several different manuscripts, collected by MᾶρκοςMarkos (see below) in the mid-16th century; these different texts date from the late 13th century up to the mid-16th.

Format: paper, 225×116 mm, ff. 295.

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Scribes: Sandri (2023, 120–1) identifies several scribes in the manuscript. A ff. 7r–8v, 10r–36v; B: ff. 37r–53v, 98r–130r l. 2, 130r ll. 8–30, 139v–154r l. 6, 155r–158v; C: ff. 62r–67v; D: ff. 68r–85r l. 14; E: ff. 85r l. 15–86v, 87v l. 37–90v, 134v l. 11–135v, 159r–177v; F: ff. 87r–v l. 37; G: ff. 91r–95v l. 13, 178r–181v; H: ff. 95v l. 14–97v, 182r–191v; I: ff. 130r ll. 2–8, 130v–134v l. 11, 136r–139r, 154r l. 6–154v l. 11; L: f. 154v ll. 12–27; M: ff. 196r–201v, 203r–225v, 227r–230v, 232r–272v; N: ff. 273r–295v; O: ff. 1r–6v, 9r–v, 54r–56r, 57r–61v, 192r–195v, 202r–v, 226r–v, 231r–v, 295r–v Μᾶρκος (RGK I 268).

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The content has been recently and thoroughly analysed in Sandri (2023), to which I refer for the complete description: the Athens manuscript preserves mainly lexicographical and grammatical content. It is nonetheless interesting that the Atticist section reflects Μᾶρκος’Markos interest in the matter and contains:

(ff. 227v-230v) Phrynichus, Ecloga. Mutilated: it preserves the work only from the beginning up to 214. Edited in Fischer (1974), who did not employ this manuscript in his edition.

(ff. 232r–233v, 235r–v) Moeris, Lexicon. Mutilated at the beginning and in the middle: only α 158 – κ 26 and σ 44Moer. σ 44 are preserved to the end. Edited in Hansen (1998), who did not employ this manuscript in his edition.

(f. 236r) Excerpts from Achilles Tatius, Leucippe et Clitophonte. Edited in Villborg (1955).

(ff. 237r–270r l. 47) Manuel Moschopulus, Vocum Atticarum collectio. Title: ὀνομάτων Ἀττικῶν συλλογὴ ἐκλεγεῖσα ἀπὸ τῆς Τεχνολογίας τῶν Εἰκόνων τοῦ Φιλοστράτου, ἣν ἐξέδοτο ὁ σοφώτατος κύριος Μανουὴλ ὁ Μοσχόπουλος, καὶ ἀπὸ τῶν βιβλίων τῶν ποιητῶν. Still edited in Τῶν ὀνομάτων Ἀττικῶν ξυλλογὴ ἐκλεγεῖσα ἀπὸ τῆς τεχνολογίας τῶν Εἰκόνων τοῦ Φιλοστράτου, ἣν ἐξέδοτο ὁ σοφώτατος κύριος Μανουὴλ ὁ Μοσχόπουλος, καὶ ἀπὸ τῶν βιβλίων τῶν ποιητῶν. Dictionarium Graecum, cum interpretatione latina, omnium quae hactenus impressa sunt copiosissimum. Venetiis in aedibus Aldi et Andreae Asulani soceri. 1524, 135r–164r.

The volume was compiled by ΜᾶρκοςMarkos (RGK I 268) in the mid-16th century (see Sandri 2023, 122–6), restoring and incorporating material from older manuscripts. Indeed, the sections copied by scribes A–L can be dated on a palaeographic basis to the late 13th century and the beginning of the following century, scribe M to the late 14th century, and scribe N probably to the mid-15th century (see Sandri 2023, 126). Since Μᾶρκος appears to have had access to numerous texts, including some of considerable sophistication, it can be assumed that the compilation of this codex took place in a non-peripheral area, possibly in Constantinople, although there is not enough evidence to confirm this (see Sandri 2023, 125–6).

As far as the text of Moeris is concerned, the Athens manuscript belongs to the π branch (as already pointed out in Sandri 2023, 133–6), which means that it derives from a copy of Par. gr. 1630Par. gr. 1630 made in Constantinople by the monk Charito of HodegonCharito in the second quarter of the 14th century. This learned copyist, in turn, probably consulted Par. Coisl. 345Par. Coisl. 345, which would further support Constantinople as the actual place of origin, at least for the part of the manuscript copied by scribe M (late 14th century, not many decades after Charito). Based on my collations of the letter α in the lexicon, it may be possible to place the Athens manuscript more securely within Hansen’s stemma as a descendant of an additional sub-archetype of π, from which Marc. gr. Z 486Marc. gr. Z 486 would also derive.

Phrynichus’ Ecloga in the Athens manuscript preserves a text of remarkable importance, although unfortunately it is incomplete. As shown in Sandri (2023, 127–9), this manuscript descends from a sub-archetype ξ, derived from γ, which it shares with the c family (see Fischer 1974, 3–10).