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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 7, 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 j and on'two occasions by T. W. A. Imperial Russian Archives, see v, Gebhardt, op. c. pp. 393, 44x. I ii. ~

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