The Homeric Hymns

295 Pages·1936·22.678 MB·English

by  T.W. Allen, W.R. Halliday, E.E. Sikes

THE
HOMERIC HYMNS
THE
HOMERIC HYMNS
EDITED BY
T. W. ALLEN
Fello>v of Queen's College, Oxford
W. R. HALLIDAY
Principal of King's College, London
AND
E. E. SIKES
Fellow and President of St. John's College,
Cambridge
Second edition
7
PREFACE
OXFORD THE first edition of this book was published by Macmillan
UNIVERSITY PRESS
& Co., Ltd., in the year I 904. Mr. E. E. Sikes of St John's
AMEN HOUSE, E,C. 4
London Edinburgh Glnsgow College, Cambridge, one of the two original editors, has
New York Toronto Melbourne long betaken himself to other provinces, and resisted
Capetown Bombay Calcutta
Madras entreaties to assist in a revision as long ago as 1911, the
HUMPHREY MILFORD date of the last Oxford text. I therefore count myself
PUBLISHER TO THE
UK'[VERSITY fortunate to have induced Mr. W. R. Halliday, Principal
of King's College, London, and lately Professor of Ancient
History in the University of Liverpool, to take part in this
edition. We present our acknowledgements to the Delegates
of the Clarendon Press for accepting it, to Professor J. L.
Myres (as we should have presented them to the late Lewis
Farnell) for the recommendation he was pleased to give to
it, and to the British Academy for a contribution towards
the expenses of production.
The exigencies of publication made it desirable to utilize
the plates of the edition of I 9 I I. That apparatus criticus
has received correction, but here and there the reader may
find repetition. On the other hand the scale of the edition
of 19u only admitted of a minimum of conjectures being
recorded; we have, therefore, to suit the convenience of
the reader and as a warning to him, collected others in a
pillory or limbo (p. 444) ; even here, however, we have
found ourselves unable to give all of them a place. The
edition of Eugen Abel (1895) leaves none out.
We hold the view, expressed in the preface to the text
of 1911, that documents in a dead language, couched in a
familiar dialect, require interpretation rather than alteration,
and that interpretation consists in illustration, that is to say
PRINTED IN GREAT BRlTAlN in the adducing of similar passages from other ancient
PREFACE
Vl
authors or monuments. The difficulty of interpreting the
Homeric Hymns lies in the circumstance that they are
CONTENTS
solitary survivors of a class. Much of their subject-matter
is unique or nearly so. The nineteenth-century critics,
ABf!REVIATIONs oF rvISS.T ITLES ix
whose scanty knowledge was directed towards assimilating
INTRODUCTION
the Hymns to the usage of Homer, and who were possessed
I. The manuscripts xi
by a belief that the Greeks and Latins spent their time in
II. The relation of the manuscripts to each other XVll
the falsification of their literature, and that mediaeval rn. The relation of the families to each other .
scribes were unable to read their own writing, altered the IV. Prosody in the manuscripts lviii
wording of the Hymns recklessly and to their ruin. We v. The Homeric Hymns in antiquity lxiv
have done our best to collect illustrative material, with Nature of the Homeric Hymns lxxxiii
VI.
what success the reader may judge, and claim to have VII. Language. xcvi
recovered the meaning of several passages. VIII. Bibliography ex
Another result of the small scale of the edition of 1911
THE TEXT OF THE HYMNS I
was that it was only possible to record the important
variants of the MSS. In a book of the present size the CoDlCUMV ARIETAS LEVIOR 93
reader may expect to find the less important variants also .. COMMENTARY
We have therefore produced the more interesting of them I. Dionysus 97
under a separate heading (p. 93). ll. Demeter 108
T. W. A. Ill. Apollo I83
November 1934. IV. Hermes 267
v. Aphrodite. 349
VI. Aphrodite. 372
vu. Dionysus 375
vm. Ares 384
IX. Artemis 389
x. Aphrodite. 39r
XI. Athena 392
XII. Hera 393
xm. Demeter 393
XIV, Mother of the Gods 394
Hercules 395
Asdepius 397
Dioscuri 400
viii CONTENTS
XVIU. Hermes 4or
XIX. Pan 402
ABBREVIATIONS BY WHICH MANUSCRIPTS ARE
XX. Hephaestus 4o9.
REFERRED TO
XXI. Apollo 4II
A = Parisinus 2763
XXII. Posidon 4r_2
At= Athous, Vatopedi 671
XXIII. Zeus 4r6 B = Parisinus 2765
XXIV. Hestia r = Bruxellensis n377-1·13So
xxv. Muses and Apollo C = Parisinus 2833
XXVI. Dionysus D = Ambrosianus B 98 sup.
XXVII. Artemis E = Estensis iii E I 1
G = Vaticanus Reginensis 91
XXVIII. Athena H = H.arleianus l 752
XXlX. Hestia J = Estensis ii B l4
XXX. Ge K = Laurentianus 31. 32
XXXI. Helios L1 = Laurentianus 32. 45
XXXII, Selene L2 = Laurentianus 70. 35
XXXIII. Dioscuri La== Laurentianus 32. 4
Els 'E:Uvovs. LL45 = LLaauurreennttiiaannuuss A32e. d7il,. e2d2i0t io princeps (marg.)
CONIECTURAE VERI MINUS SHHLES M = Leidensis 33 H (Mosquensis)
Mon. = Monacensis 333
ADDENDA • N = Leidensis 74C
=
INDEXES: 0 Ambrosianus C 10 inf,
=
P Vaticanus Palatinus 179
I, Index of Greek words
II = Parisinus suppl. gr. 1095
II. English Index Q = Ambrosianus S 31 sup,
R = Riccardianus 53
1
R = Riccardianus 52
2
Rs = Riccardianus 3195 (nunc 3020)
S = Vaticanus 1880
T = Matritensis 24
V = Venetus 456
1
V = Venetus ix 37, editio princeps (rnarg.)
2
m = M man. 2
/; = codd. AB CrG L2 L,L4 Mon.NOP Q R1R2 V consensus
z = codd. E L II T consensus
y = marginalia codd. E L n T
z = codd. H J K consensus
p = Berlin papyrus 44 (Berliner Klasst'kerte;,;te 1907, 7 sqq.)
INTRODUCTION
I.-THE MANUSCRIPTS
THE Homcri"c .flymns are contained, as far as is known, in
the following thirty-one manuscripts. They are arranged
according to the libraries in which they are found. 1
LEIDEN,2 UNIVERSITY LIBRARY.
=
M xviii. 33 H (= 22); paper, 293 X 210 mm., 50 ff., s.
xm-xiv. Contains (ff. 1-30) Iliad® 435-N 134, (31-50) Hom.
Hymns (i. 10-xviii. 4),
= =
N xviii. 74 C ( 28); vellum, 230 X 168 mm., r u ff., s. xv.
Contains Orpheus' Argonautica and Hymns, (53-ro4) Hom.
Hymns (iii-xxxiii), Proclus' Hymns, Moschus' ,,Bpws-8pa1t'ETrJs,
M usaeus' .llero and Leander.
PARIS,3 BIBLlOTHEQUE NATIONALE.
A= grec 2763; paper, 220 x 146 mm., 244 ff., s. xv. Con~
tains the Orphic Argonautica and Hymns, Proclus' and Calli~
machus' Hymns, (ff. 91-129) Hom. Hymns (iii-xxxiii), Moschus'
"Epws:8 parrEr1s-M, usaeus' Hero and Leander, Hesiod)s Works and
Days, Shi'eld of Hercules, Theogony, Theocritus. Smiley l.c. 1920.
!12.
B = grec 2765; paper, 192 x r39 mm., ff. 58, s. :xv. Contains
Orpheus' and Proclus' Hymns, (ff. 23-58) Hom. Hymns (iii
xxxiii), Moschus"'Epws Opa1r£T7JS,
1 The Callimachus MSS., which often coincide with those of the Homeric
Hymns, are the subject of the detailed investigation of M. T. Smiley, C. Q.
1920 and 1921. We have taken some corrections from this source, See
also P. Maas Byzantinisch-NeugriechisclieJahrhUcher, 1927, 205. The whole
ground has recently been covered by P. S. Breuning, De Hynmorum
Homericorum memon'a, 1929.
2 See Geel Cat. lihrontm mstorum qui inde ab anno 1741 bibliothecae
Lugduno.Batavae accesserunt, 1852, p. 9.
s See H. Omont lnventaire Somma1're des manuscrits gre.cs de la B.N.,
1888, PP· 37, 47, 339.
Xll INTRODUCTION THE MANUSCRIPTS xiii
=
C grec 2833; vellum, 243 x 147 mm., ff. zr4, s. xv. Con~ · o{,d,\,\a (corr. to f3,D,).(L,1) rA.aK€n'ivo~ ;.ypm/t£; f. 12v this: J)..f3iprov
tains Theocritus, (ff. 44-85) .Hom• . Hymns (iii-xxxiii), Moschus' r.[ov 1-mprra.£cltiJ.Vpx ovro, KTrjp.a. Smiley 1920. 58. A reduced
''.Epw, Spa1drqs, Musaeus' Hero and Leander, Hesiod, Dionysius' facsimile of the hand of this MS. (xxxiii. 10-end) is given in the
Cosmography, Theognis Phocylides. 1l1iscellaneaF r. Ehrle r924 iv. 32.
IT = supplement grec 1095 ; paper, 335 x 228 mm., ff. 280, J = ii. B I4(= sr); paper, 216x152 mm., ff. 264, s. xv.
s. xv. Contains the Iliad, (ff. 225-45) Hom. Hymns (iii-xxxiii), Contains Aratus' PJ1aenomena,T zetzes' 1r1£pt1 roi1Jrwv, (ff. 55-64)
Callimachus', Orpheus', Proclus' Hymns, the Batrachomyomachia. •_ Hom. Hymns (viii-xviii, h. Apoll 1-185 omitting 184), Hesiod's
At the end is the inscription Est Sandi Petri de Perusio.1 Smiley•.·• Theogony and Shield of Hercules, Lycophron's Alexandra, Pindar's
l.c. 1920. 106. A page in rotograph Breuning tab. 2. Pythian Odes. At the beginning and the end a pair of inscriptions,
ro
MILAN, BlBLIOTECA AMBROSIANA. 2 of which the former is crossed out : rEwpYLou Tov ~a)..)..a la-n
D = 120 B 98 sup.; vellum, 255 x 180 mm., ff. 227, s. xv. Con-/ f3if3Mov, and il~/3.f.provT ov -rr{ouK a.pr.a.{wlvi pxovros t<T'1fLa,
tains Apollonius Rhodius' Argonautica, the Batrachomyomachia, /
Herodotus' Life of Homer, Maximus of Tyre's Opuscula, (ff. I 78-) FLORENCE, BlBLlOTECA MEDICEO-LAURENZIANA. 1
209) Hom. Hymns (iii-xxxiii), Callimachus. Smiley r92r. 57. i =
= mm. L1 plut. 32 cod. 45; vellum, 267 X 178 mm., ff. 170, s. xv.
0 845 C 10 inf. ; paper, 2I6 X 128 ff. 143, s. xv.-xvi.> Contains Apollonius Rhodius' Argonautica, Orpheus' Hymns,
Contains Plato's Cratylus, Orpheus' A1-gonautz'caa nd Hymns,
(ff. r55-81) Hom. Hymns (iii-vii. 33).
Proclus' Hymns, (ff. 127-43) Hom. Hymns (iii-iv. 80). At the( =
L2 plut. 70 cod. 35; vellum, 252 x 178 mm., ff. 109, s. xv.
beginning this inscription: codex non admodum ille quidem antz" Contains Herodotus' Life of Homer, Gorgias' Encomium He!enae,
quus sed va!de bonus. sternathiae in iapygia emptus 1606. ;;
Orpheus' Argonautica and Hymns, Proclus' .llymns, (ff. 68-103)
Q = 734 S 31 sup.; paper, 230 x 158 mm., ff. 320, s. xv. Cort-I Hom. JJ_ymns (iii--xxxiii), Moschus' "Epw~ 8pa-;rt-'i''f/SM, usaeus'
tains Orpheus' and Proclus' Hymns, (ff. 39-89) Hom . .l-Iymn{CH!:e•r o and Leander. Written by Jo annes Scutariota.
(iii-xxxiii), Moschus' "Epw~ cpar.frqs, Callimachus, Pindar's); =
L3 plut. 32 cod. 4; paper, 407 X 229 mm., ff. 476, s. xv.
Olympian and Pythian Odes. At the beginning these inscriptions),~
Contains the Iliad, Odyssey, (ff. 450-76) Hom. Hymns (iii
li"beri ste est mei mara de passiris januensis [in the margin patavinf'Jf xxxiii). Written by Jo annes Rhosus.
is added] et amicorum, and.f V. pm (i.e. Pinelli). Smiley 1920>!!' =
K plut. 31 cod. 32. Vellum, 269 X 185 mm., ff. 55. Con•
l I 2. f tains Hesiod's Shield of Hercules, Theogony r-577, (ff. 25-30)
MODENA, BlBLIOTECA EsTENSE.3 · 0 Hom .. Hynms (viii-xviii, h. Apoll r-185, omitting r84), Aratus'
E = iii. E II ( = 164) ; paper, 292 x 203 mm., ff.. 93, s. x,~;if Fhaenomena.
Contains Orpheus' and Callimachus' Hymns, (ff. 50-84) Hotn ' =
L4 Aedil. 220; vellum, 256 x r75 mm., ff. 90, s. xv. Con
I-i'ymns (iii-xxxiii). At the end this inscription : 7•ilJpy1u.;._ .. tains Orpheus' Argonauti'ca and .Hymns, Proclus' Hymns, Hom.
1 See Leopold Delisle Catalogue des MSS. des fonds Libn" et Barroi Hymns (iii-xxxiii), Moschus' "Epws Spo:irfrri,;;M, usaeus' Hero and
Paris, 1888, f. 125, and for other ll!!SS. from this convent now in thePerugi Leander. Written by Scutariota.2
library, Centralblatt fur Bib!iathcllswesen, x. 4 70 f. ._ •·•·• =
1 plut. 32. 7, editio pnnceps, marginalia.
2 SE;-eM artinie Bassi Cataloguscodicumgraecornm bibliothecaeambrosi'a · 5
1906. . l See Bandini Cat. codd. graec. bibl. Laur. 1768, ii. 105,126, 205.
3 See V. Puntoni lndice dei codici grcci dclla b. Estense di Modena, Rostagno Indids cod. graec. bibl. L(mr. supplcmentum: Studi italiani di
PP· 487, 4i6. classica vi. I 29 f.
XIV INTRODUCTION THE MANUSCRIPTS xv
BIBLIOTECA RICCARDlANA, 1 VENICE, BIBLlOTECA DI s. MARC0, 1
= =
R1 53 K II. 13; vellum, 223 x 143 mm., ff. 106, s. xv. Con V1 456; vellum, 341 x 252 mm., ff. 54r, s. xv. Contains
tains Orpheus' Argonautica and Hymns, Proclus' Hymns, (ff. 6 r~ .• the Iliad, Quintus Smyrnaeus, the Odyssey, (ff. 509-38) Hom.
99) Hom. Hymns (iii-xxxiii), Moschus' "Epw<!;3 pa,d.-rYJM'>u, saeus' ·•·.J fymns (iii-xxxiii), Moschus' "Epw,;S pa1r/.rri,;B, atrachomyomachia.
Hero and Leander. Written by Jo annes Rhosus. At the be At the beginning the inscription : K-rrjµ.a/ 3>7crcrap(wvKoas powJA«w-;;
ginning is written the name Rinaldi. TOV'! 'WYT o6a-KAwv.& .ptOµ.aw0 v. hoer meus b. Car'• niceni nttmero r.
=
R 52 K II. I4; vellum, 214 x 144 mm., ff. 73, s. xv. locus 8r, and a monogram of the letters ALF R.
2
=
Contains Orpheus' and Proclus' Hymns, (ff, 31-p) Hom. Hj'mns/ V IX. 37, edltio fnnceps, marginalia.
2
(iii-xxxiii), Moschus' ~Epw,; !3pa1reTYJSO, n f. 73 • is found the,
signature J.ypaxp']! 3tax. ,ip6<;l w&wov TOVc rKwrapumov.
= MUNICH, ROYAL LIBRARY.2
R3 3195 (now 3020}; paper, mm. 198 X 140, ff. 85, a. 1494,) =
written by Bartolommeo Comparini. Contains the Bat1·aclzomyo Mon. 333; paper, 230 x r 55 mm., ff, x ro, s. xv. Contains
machia, (ff. 6, 7) Hom. Hymns (ix, xii, xiii), and misc. Vitelli op.c.) Orpheus' Argonautka and Hymns, Proclus' · Hymns, (ff. 72-90)
Hom. Hymns (iii-iv. r92), Herodotus' Life of Homer.
pp. 541-2.
ROME, BIBLIOTECA APOSTOLICA VATICAN A, " BRUSSELS, BIBLIOTHEQUE ROYALE.~
S = Vaticani gred 1880; paper, 230 x 165 mm., ff. 266, s. xv,/l r = 74 (1r377-n380); paper, 202 x 145 mm., ff. 94, s. xv.
and xvi.; ff. r-8 are s. xv., and contain h. Apo!!. 1-357 ; th1'~ Contains Theognis, (ft: 27-63) Hom. Hymns (iii-xxxiii), Moschus'
remainder are sixteenth-century notes. At the end is the in:1'' Epw~ 8pa.rrfr>7Os, rpheus' and Proclus' Hymns. On f. 91 is found
scription Co!!ectanea septem sophoc!is tragediar. pertinent. inter~:i!t he signature :
pretat=. j int"unt'. u!t. JuN:f. 111,D.lfl. medio!. >I o.pta-T0/306Aoovf /3eX HPOSE K1 3uu(ovov
G Regina 9I; 2 paper, 292 X 202, ff. 350, s. xvi. Contains!~ a.tLOt
the Odyssey, Batrachomyomachia, (ff.· 306-350) Hom. I:lymni'!] vµvot /JµljpovA a/3ov, vµvov 1repas.
<
{iii-xxxiii). .
P = Palatino 179; vellum, 255 x r65 mm., ff. I40, s. xv MADRID, ROY AL LrBRARY ••
Contains Herodotus' Life of Homer, Gorgias' Encomium Helen. T = 4562 = 24; 2 So X 180 mm., ff. 136, a. r464. Con
Orpheus' Argonautica and Hymns, Proclus' Hymns, (ff. 86-12 tains Musaeus' Hero and Leander, Orpheus' Argonauti'ca and
Hom. Hymns (iii-xxxiii), Moschus' ~Epw-;;/ 3pmrfrris, Musaeu Hymns, (ff. 56-83) Hom. Hymns (ili-xxxiii), Callimachus' Hymns
Hero and Leander. At the beginning the inscription Janno. ,and Epigrams. On ~--roov Krrjµa KWJ•o-rnvrlvovA aaK&p~w~J v
Manetti.3 ..µ diwA«v<ltx>y po.cp/.av ii l 8. Smiley 1920. 57.
l G. Vitelli lndti:e de' codicigreci Rii:cardiani, Magliabecchiani e Marucellz'a •.·t·• See Graeca D. Marci BihHof!teca cod. mauu scriptorum, 1740, p. i45.
Studi difil. cl. ii. 471 f. . ,, 2 Cat, cod. mslorum gran:orttm bib/. regiae Bavaricae, auctore Ignatio
2 See Codices mssti graeci Reginae Suecorum et Pii PP. II. rec. et Hardt, r8o6, iii. 3 n f.
Henricus Stevenson, senior, 1888, p. 66. }Cf. Henri Omont Cat. des manuscr£ts gncs de la Bibliotheque Roya!c de
8 Codices mssti Palatini rec. et <lisp. Henricus Stevenson, ••B ru:relles,1 885, no. 74, p. 25.
p. 93• Iriarte Regiae bihl, Matrilensis codd. graeci, 1769, p. 86,
xvi INTRODUCTION THE MANUSCRIPTS xvii
LONDON, BRITISH MUSEUM. answered a few questions about ll, and we have recollated
H = Harley 17 52 j paper, 230 x 160 mm., ff. 191, s. xv. Con it. We leave the account of the very gradual process by
tains (ff. 2-5) Hom. Hymns (viii-xviii,h . Apo!!. 1-55), Orpheus' which this material was utilized by the earlier editors till
Hymns and Argonautica, Lycophron's Alexandra, Pmdar s 01., p. lxxvii f.
Pyth. and Nemean Odes.' G, as was noticed by Hollander, Die handschrijtliche
Ueber!ieferung der h. H. p. 6, contains exactly the same
2
ATHOS, VATOPEDI.
matter as the second volume of the editio princeps, includ
At= 671; paper, 260 x rgo mm., ff. 247, s. xv. Contains
ing the colophon; and, as the hand is fairly r500 or later,
Sophocles' Ajax, Electra, Oed. Tyr., Eurip~~es: IIecuba_,_O reste~,
may be taken to be a copy of the printed book, and there
Phoenissae, (ff. 191-218) Hom. Hymns (m, 1v, v, vu), ~alh~
fore dlsmisse.d from consideration.
machus. Constantinides Classical Review 1894, p.341, published
the readings. Smiley 192r. 58. P = the Berlin papyrus 44, s. i B.c. (Berliner K!assiker
. te;i:ter 907, 7 sqq.), which contains some lines of Hymn ii.
SALAMANCA. Seep. no.
The University Library possesses a xv-xvith century paper
:c
MS. (i. 2. r3) which contains (vi. 2) hymn xxv. See Graux-
Martin, Notices sommaires des manuscrits grecs d'Espagne et de II.--THE RELATION OF THE MANUSCRIPTS TO
Portugal, ,s92, p. r79. This fragment has not been collated. EACH OTHER
These MSS., with the exception of the Athous, L,, the: The text of the Hymns, so far as it depends upon the
Matritensis, R and the last, were collated for the edition °fj MSS., may he said to be fairly settled; at least the account
3,
Alfred Goodwin, Oxford, 1893; the collation there used 01[ given J.H.S. 1895, xv. 138 f., which is followed here, has
the Brussels MS. (I') was due to Monsieur E. Ouverleaux,f not been materially impugned. That account was based
that of the Munich MS. to Herr S. Riezler. The hymn to) upon the treatise of Dr. H. Hollander, Die handschrijtliche
Apollo in ll was collated, very accurately, by a Fren~hman; Ueberliejerung der homerischen Hymnen, Leipzig 1886,
whose name we cannot recover. Since the pubhcat10n of.! which established the main lines of the question.'
Goodwin's edition, the Madrid MS. has been partially col-J
lated by E. Bethe (Hermes 1893 552 ff.), and entirely byJ M
ourselves; the Athos MS. by Professor M. Constantinides;j The celebrated book known as the Mosquensis evidently
R .., at our request and on the kind intervention of Professor¾s tands apart from the other MSS. on account of the frag-
Girolamo Vitelli, by Signor Alessandro Olivieri, and Li!
• . • •
by Prof. Vi.t elli. hi.m self. M. Henrt. O mont h a 5 kindl Y,-]p de1r hOotmh.e Hr lyitmernateunr' e, Hone rtmhees s, u1b839e1c,t p1sp:. t1h7e0 ,s 6ams6e; w,n Uteerb, er,d Zeunr CUoebdeerxl iEefsetreunnsgi s
1 There are a few marginal notes on the hymn to Hermes in the edifi~ii d~rh om. Hymnen ', Neue Jahrbucher /Ur Pht7olog£e, r892, p. ; , Ueber
544
princeps in the British Museum add. MSS. 1~627. . _-,_;<f liet ieu bekannt geworden~n Handschriften der hom. Hymnen \ Osnabriick,
2 See Sophronios Eustratiades and Arcad10s Catalogue of the GreekM SS\'~.%IJ18 9 5; A. Gemoll, Homensche Bliitter, Striegau, 1895, p. 12 f.; E. Abel,
in the library of the Monastery of Vatoped:', 1924. preface to his edition, Prag 1886; Breuning I. c.
::I
b
31111
,)¾
§1
,ii
~~
xviii INTRODUCTION RELATION OF MANUSCRIPTS TO EACH OTHER xix
ment to Dionysus and the entire hymn to Demeter with Quire 3. ff. 2 r-30; the signature ,(3' at either end: f. 30v
which it opens ; all other MSS. begin with the hymn to exp!. N 134.
Apollo. This external singularity is confirmed by the Quire 4. ff. 3r-39 ;._!lo signature at the beginning; at the
end ,ll'.
character of its readings. Before we discuss these, it may
be well to complete the description of the book itself. This quire consists of 9 leaves instead of 10; the last
It was found as early as 1777 by Christian Friedrich leaf, 39, is only half a sheet, and is glued to the back of the
Matthaei, at that time Professor of Greek in Russia, in the quire. The former half, therefore, of the first sheet has
library of the Synod at Moscow.' Matthaei acquired it to perished, carrying with it the signature: f. 31' inc. Ka{ ol
gether with other MSS., and sold it to the library at Leiden. dvauri]ffouo-ivd ydAµara 1r6AAJ' vl V'Y]o'is( h. Dz'on.1 0).
It is a book of 50 leaves, written in two columns, with about
Quire 5. ff. 40-49 ; at the beginning the signature " together
25 lines in a column; the hand is high and regular and is with another numeral .,., which Maunde Thompson thought was
usually ascribed to the fourteenth century.• It has the part of another quire-numeration. The signature at the end has
ligatures which are common to the thirteenth and fourteenth perished.
centuries; in the height and uprightness of its strokes it' Quire 6. fol. 50; signature wanting. This is a single leaf
resembles the Greek hand ofBarberini 541 a. H92 (Franchi-; glued at the back. The recto ceases with h. Herm. xviii. 4: the
Lietzmann, pl. 38), Paris grec 1671 a. 1296 (Omont, Fae-.·• verso is blank.
similes dates, pl. LXVII, LXVIII), the Odyssey Harley 5674\ On grounds both of palaeography and of contents the
(undated), and even Ven. 172 of a. rr75 (Wattenbach and,; book is evidently fragmentary. The first quire must have
von Velsen, pl. ~v), though this is n_iu:h larger ~nd freer. On { been the tenth of the original book, and if the tenth began
the other hand 1t shares the pecuhanty of a smgle dot over.~w ith El 435, it is natural to suppose that quires 1-9 con
iota with Ven. 292 of a. 13o6 (W.V., _pl. XX). We may~tained the Iliad A-El 434. Heyne (Iliad, vol. I. xiii, xiv.,
therefore date it to the end of the thtrteenth or the be.I vol. m. xc.) was informed by Matthaei (see v. Gebhardt
ginning of the fourteenth century. The sheets are arranged~ op.cp. . 451 f.) that a book containing exactly this amount of
=-f
in quires of 5, or quinions, and the book runs at present Homer existed in the Imperial Library at Moscow (' Q 1 '
J
Quire 1. ff. r-ro; the signatures have perished, inc. ® 435. or 'Mose. 1' among Iliad MSS.). Evidently the Hymn
Quire 2. ff. , 1-20; the signature ,a' at the beginning andj MS. once made one with this.1
the end. ifil Next, by the evidence of the signatures, one quire (,y')
1 See v. Gebhardt, , c. F. Matthai und seine Sammlung griechischenf has fallen out between f. 3° and f. 31, and one leaf, the
Handschrfften ', Ccntralblattf ii.r B£bliothekswesenx, v. 345 ff., 393 ff., 44x ff.~{(
537 ff., esp. 442-62. ,j 1 The portio~ of the Iliad contained in M has b~en collated by Lu~wich
2 The hand may be studied in the portion of the hymn to Demeter re:;J( Index feet, Reg:mont, 1891) and by ourselves. It is known for the Ihad as
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produced in Goodwin's edition, and in a page of the hymn to Her~e~f Le QI and Le.a are c~osely related to another Iliad M~., U II, with
(57-10,_) prefixed to this book. It was collated with great care by Goodwmi'lvw hich they form the family w. On the catalogue of the library of the
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and on'two occasions by T. W. A. Imperial Russian Archives, see v, Gebhardt, op. c. pp. 393, 44x.
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