°ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ Library, Oxford, MS 298, f. 110r [detail]

°ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ MS 298: A Story of the Manuscript

Alberto Ravani
Issue number
(2021): 16

What is now kept in a protective blue box in °ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ Library, at shelfmark MS 298, is actually two manuscripts in one, plus later additions—one, written at the beginning of the 13th century which contained the Iliad, and another, written a century later with Homeric exegetical material. At some point in the 15th century, a group of—at least two—scribes decided to merge the manuscripts.

 

°ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ Library, Oxford, MS 298, f. 110r [detail]

 

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