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THE SOURCES OF BEINECKE MANUSCRIPT 269 *
In her recent catalogue of the rare manuscripts at Yale University Barbara Shailor gives a characteristically thorough description of codex 269 (Y), a collection of scholia to Oppian's Haliéutica1. We are told that the scholia are attributed to Tzetzes and that they often diverge from the Haliéutica scholia published by Bussemaker2. These scholia are followed by a paraphrase of the Cynegetica, also attributed to Tzetzes, and a colophon in which the scribe of Y identifies himself as Andreas Darmarios from Epidauros and gives as the date of completion of his work 17 November 1580 at Salamanca3.
Some observations can be added to Shailor's which are of interest from both a codicological and textual point of view. First, the Haliéutica scholia of Fare of a type found first in Laurentianus 31.3 (Z), a manuscript written by Manuel Spheneas in A. D. 1291. The scholia in Y are drawn from two different Ζ derivatives, a fact suggested by Shaillor's description : « The collation of the manuscript is peculiar, since certain gatherings were inserted within other gatherings that had previously been foliated in Arabic numerals (upper right corner). » To state the facts more fully and in different words, the scholia to book one of the Haliéutica begin on f. 6 r° which bears a secondary number 205. Each of the next five folios also bears two numbers, 7-11 and 206-210. The final folios of this gathering, however, are numbered 31-32 and 210-211 because nineteen folios have been bound in before them which were not originally part of the codex4. The nineteen inserted folios each bear only one number, 12-30.
* We have seen this manuscript on microfilm kindly supplied to us by the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Our film includes only the Haliéutica portion of the codex, so we can say little about the Cynegetica section.
1. Barbara SHAILOR, Catalogue
of medieval and the Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, Binghampton, Ν. Υ., 1984. Beinecke 269 was formerly Saragossa Pilar 2027.
2. See SHAILOR, p. 36, for bibliography on scholarship dealing with the attribution of these scholia to John Tzetzes.
3. Darmarios was the largest seller of classical texts in the second half of the sixteenth century and a great number of Creek manuscripts, signed and unsigned, have been attributed to hie hand.
4. It is perhaps foolhardy to use information gained from microfilm to contradict firsthand data, but it appears that the first gathering is a ternion, not a binion, as is stated in the catalogue. If so, there is a guard leaf before the present f. 1, thus making f. 5 (a blank) the sixth and final folio of the first gathering. The second gathering then begins with f. 6 (there is a number 2 at the bottom of f. 6 r*). The third gathering (III 12) and fourth (TV 8 [-8]) would
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