Vindobonensis philologicus graecus 44 – Wn

Previous descriptions: Hunger (1961, 167–8).

Reproductions: –

Family: d²

Siglum: Wn

Shelfmark: Vindobonensis philologicus graecus 44

Date: End of the 15th or early 16th century

Format: paper, 313×210 mm, V + 136 ff.

Material: in a good state of conservation.

Binding: not original, middle of 18th century.

Watermarks: ox’ head, similar to Briquet 14431 (Milan 1491) or 14432 (Ferrara 1503), see Hunger (1961, 168).

Scribes: a single scribe wrote the entire manuscript.

Annotations: on f. Vv there is the ownership note of Sebastiano ErizzoSebastiano Erizzo (1525–1585, on his life see DBI 43.198–204): Sebastiani Ericij A(ntonii) F(ilius) ‘[It belongs to] Sebastiano Erizzo, figlio di Antonio’; on f. Vv there is also a note recording the purchase: Codex hic manuscriptus Graecus pro Augustissima Bibliotheca Cesarea Vindobonensi emptus est Venetiis anno 1672 florenis 30.

1 (ff. 1r–136v) Pollux, Onomasticon. No title. Incipit: ὦ παῖ πατρὸς ἀγαθοῦ (1.1). Explicit: κόρημα, κιβωτόν, λύχνον (10.192). It contains all ten books: 1 (ff. 1r‒23r), 2 (ff. 23r‒42r), 3 (ff. 42r‒51r), 4 (ff. 51r‒63v), 5 (ff. 63v‒71v), 6 (ff. 71v‒85v), 7 (ff. 85v‒94v), 8 (ff. 85v–108v), 9 (ff. 108v‒121r), and 10 (ff. 121r‒136v).

It is possible that this Pollux’s manuscript was copied in Venice; the watermarks date it to the end of the 15th century or to the beginning of the 16th. It belonged to the Venetian patrizio Sebastiano Erizzo (1525–1585, on his life see DBI 43.198–204), a scholar of Latin and Greek. Not much is known about this manuscript, except that it was purchased for the price of 30 florins, along with several other manuscripts belonged to Erizzo (see Hunger 1961, 453) for the Hofbibliothek in Wien in 1672, about a century after Erizzo’s death. The text of the Onomasticon in Wn descends from the one in Vaticanus graecus 2226Vat. gr. 2226 (G) and also shares some errors with Bruxellensis 11350Brux. 11350 (Br).