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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ...Orpheus, Hymns. 274r-276T, Proclus, Hymns. 276v, Batrachomyomachia. The manuscript once belonged to the Abbey of St. Peter at Perugia, as we learn from two notes at the beginning and the end of the volume. Of the gatherings Nigra (I.e.) says 'Nel margine esterno inferiore vi k traccia dell' antica numerazione di registro, tagliata dal legatore. Da qttesta ultima numerazione appare che il codice era composto di 3 quademi (a b c) e di 26 quinterni (d-y e A-G). Ma mancano 3 interi fogli nel quinterno C e una nel quintemo D.' This last came between ff. 248 and 249/, and contained Call. III. 66-145. Ludwich (I.e.) says, presumably only of the part containing Proclus, 'codex... quern duo eiusdem temporis (saec. XV.) librarii altemis exarauerunt, deinde recentiores correxentnt.' In the Callimachean portion one hand alone appears, alike in text and scholia. Abbreviations are more frequent in the latter, but are not uncommon in the former also, where they include the symbols for-av, -at?, -a?, -eiv, -e-, -ev, -rv, -rjs, -ts, -ov, -os, -01/?, -Tat, -av, with ol, Ko.1 (in two forms), faai, and avOptoirof, ovpavos, iraT-qp, and fitjTTjp. Uncontracted suprascript letters, none of them much used thus, are-a, -at, -ais, -e, eva, -17, -vv, -?, -aai, -to, -to, -a). Ligatures abound, especially those with v as the first element. Both r and 7 are used, and final-a almost completely ousts-?. Iota subscr. is never used. A large initial letter, projecting into the margin, is found, introducing a speech, at IV. 266, VI. 46; resuming after a speech, at III. -6, IV. 99, 121, 153, 228, 249, 274, VI. 50; and, without either of these reasons, at IV. 141, 147, VI. 59, 91, and in the odd lines of Hymn V. -ttioi are given for all six Hymns. Of the quality of this manuscript Wilamowitz1 sagacious...
