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The So-Called Tzetzes Scholia on Philostratus and Andreas Darmarios

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Robert Browning
Affiliation:
University College, London

Extract

In the preface to their edition of the Imagines of Philostratus Minor Schenkl and Reisch mention scholia of Tzetzes (presumably Joannes Tzetzes) on the Imagines of the elder Philostratus in Royal MS. 16 D XII of the British Museum. Their statement is repeated without comment in the histories of Greek literature of Schmid-Stählin and Sinko, as well as by Solmsen in his article on the Philostrati in Pauly-Wissowa, R.E. 20. 174. 59 ff. Wendel, on the other hand, in his recent exhaustive treatment of Tzetzes in R.E. 2te Reihe 7. 1959–2012, knows nothing of the London manuscript, but says (col. 2005. 27 ff.): ‘Nur in den jungen Hs. Ambr. D 213 inf. (16. Jhdt.) werden die Philostratos-Scholien T. zugeschrieben, die sonst anonym oder als Eigentum des Moschopulos und Planudes überliefert sind.’ It is perhaps worth looking into the matter a little more closely.

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Copyright © The Classical Association 1955

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page 196 note 1 Paper; 8¼″x10″; s. xvi; fol. 272. I.‘Tzetzes’ Antehomerica etc. (fols. 1–5v); II. Eusebius' Onomasticon (fols. 6–36v); III. Scholia of ‘Tzetzes’ on the Halieutica of Oppian (fols. 37–156v); IV. Paraphrase by ‘Tzetzes’ of the Cynegetica of Oppian (fols. 157–214V); V. Scholia of ‘Tzetzes’ on the Imagines of Philostratus (fols. 215–65); VI. Gregorius Corinthius on Hermogenes (a fragment) (fols. 266–72). Items I, II, and III–VI are separate manuscripts, only brought together by an eighteenth-century binder. Items III–VI are in the same hand, but items III, IV, and V each have a separate series of quire signatures. There are no signatures in the last part.

page 196 note 2 Paper; 29·7 X 21·7 cm.; s. xvi; fol. I, 52, III. Scholia of ‘Tzetzes’ on the Imagines of Philostratus.

page 196 note 3 Cf. Warner, G. F. and Gilson, J. P., Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Old Royal and King's Collections, ii (1921), 192.Google Scholar The cataloguers' identification of the hand can be confirmed by a comparison with other London manuscripts known to have been written by Darmarios, e.g. Royal MSS. 16 C XVIII, Add. 21095.

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page 197 note 2 The passage at the end of the Life of Oppian in the London manuscript beginning and noted as unpublished in the Catalogue of Royal Manuscripts, vol. ii, p. 191Google Scholar, is actually printed by Bussemaker on p. 260.

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page 197 note 4 Edited by Tüselmann, O., Abh. Gott. Ges., N.F. iv. 1, 1900Google Scholar. Mystoxides and Schinas, , Venice, published only book I, which was reprinted by Bussemaker in his edition of the scholia on Oppian, pp. 370–5. Book 4 was first edited Tüselmann in ‘Zur handschriftlichen Überlieferung von Oppians Kynegetika’, Progr. Künigl. Klosterschule Ilfeld, 1890. On Euterknios cf. Cohn, , R.E. 6. 1492. 3363.Google Scholar

page 197 note 5 Epigrammatum graecorum annotationibus Ioannis Brodaei Turonensis, nee non Vincentii Obsopoei, et graecis in pleraque epigrammata scholiis illustratorum libri VI, Francofurti, 1600.

page 198 note 1 Darmarios observes in his colophon to this manuscript that the text is . Omont in his Inventaire des mss. grecs el latins donnés à Saint-Marc de Venise par le Cardinal Bessarion en 1468, Paris, 1894Google Scholar, records two manuscripts containing collections of epigrams: No. 373 ‘Item magna moralia Aristotelis et eiusdem moralia ad Eudemum, epigrammata diversa diversorum, in versu, pulchra, et in latino eloquio sanctus Thomas de ente et essentia, partim in pergameno et partim in papyro.’ This manuscript is not traceable in Zanetti and Bongiovanni's catalogue, and has probably been split up into its component parts. No. 456, ‘Item liber epigrammatum in pergameno’, is to be identified with cod. Ven. Marc. 481, Maximus Planudes' autograph of the Planudean Anthology, dated at Constantinople in September 1301. It does not contain scholia. It is therefore impossible at present to identify the exemplar from which Darmarios copied the London manuscript. And since he had already made two copies of the same scholia in Madrid three years earlier, it is possible that the reference to the library of Bessarion is mere mystification. On the unreliability of Darmarios' colophons cf. Graux, , op. cit., pp. 2934Google Scholar.2 Cf. Omont, op. cit., No. 460.

page 199 note 1 On Lianoro cf. Frati, L., ‘Lianoro de’ Lianori, ellenista bolognese’, Studi e Memorie per la Storia dell’ Università di Bologna, x (1930), 163–77Google Scholar. Frati in his list of Lianoro's manuscripts (pp. 172–5) does not mention diose in Spain.

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