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An Unnoticed ms of Orphic Hymns 76–7

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

R. Janko
R. Janko
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Because of an incomplete description of its contents, it has escaped notice that the fifteenth-century vellum MS Parisinus graecus 2833 contains Orphic Hymns 76 and 77 on folio 91 verso. The Hymns are copied, without indication of title or authorship, after Musaeus' Hero and Leander (lines 1–245), and before the collected (Proclan and other) Prolegomena to Hesiod A a, b, c, BEF a, b Pertusi, which are followed by Hesiod's Works and Days, Shield and Theogony. These are all in the same hand.

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The Classical Quarterly , Volume 35 , Issue 2 , December 1985 , pp. 518 - 520
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1985

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References

1 In Omont, H., Inventaire sommaire des manuscrits grecs de la Bibliothèque Nationale (Paris, 1886–1898)Google Scholar. The contents are Theocritus, Id. cum schol.; the Homeric Hymns; Moschus, Love the Runaway; Musaeus, Hero and Leander; <Orpheus>, Hymns 76–7; ‘Proclus’, Prolegomena to Hesiod (fol. 92 recto); Hesiod, Works and Days, Shield, Theogony; Dionysius Periegetes; Theognis; (pseudo-)Phocylides. Càssola, F., Inni omerici (Milan, 1975), 606Google Scholar n. 2 remarks that MS 2833 is in the same hand as Ambrosianus 734 (S 31 sup.) and Laurentianus 32.4, a hand formerly identified as that of John Rhosus, but not in fact his (Pfeiffer, R., Callimachus [Oxford, 1953], ii. lxivGoogle Scholar). It is in fact that of Demetrios Damilas (later 15th to early 16th century), since not only the Phocylides on fol. 209vff. is his (see the list in Gamillscheg, E. and Harlfinger, D., Repertorium der griechischen Kopisten 800–1600, I: Handschriften aus Bibliotheken Grossbritanniens [Vienna, 1981], no. 93)Google Scholar, but the rest of the MS as well (so Professor Harlfinger, in personal correspondence). Young, D. C. C., Scriptorium 7 (1953), 18CrossRefGoogle Scholar, erroneously ascribes the Theognis on fol. 182r–208v to Janus Lascaris.

2 MS J in the edition of Kost, K., Commentary on Musaeus (Bonn, 1971)Google Scholar.

3 MS C in Pertusi, A., Scholia Vetera in Hesiodi Opera et Dies (Milan, 1955)Google Scholar.

4 Quandt, W., Orphei Hymni, 2nd edition (Berlin, 1955)Google Scholar, gives details of all MSS then known, pp. 3*–10* and 81; he also omits Marc. gr. 509, which has a partial text (Vian, F., Revue d'Histoire des Textes 9 [1979], 8Google Scholar).

5 Cf. ibid. pp. 24*f.

6 Ibid. pp. 19*, 28*f.

7 Cf. Pfeiffer, , Callimachus, ii. lxxxivGoogle Scholar; West, M. L., CQ 18 (1968), 289CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

8 MS 2763 = A in Allen, T. W., Homeri Opera v (Oxford, 1912)Google Scholar and in Breuning, P., De hymnorum homericorum memoria (Diss. Utrecht, 1929), pp. 26–9Google Scholar; according to whom (p. 29), among the large family p, only Par. 2763 and 2833 (C in Allen) transmit the final poem Εἰς ξένους, found also in xAtD (but contrast Càssola, op. cit. 610 n. 1, who even so observes that 2833 contaminates a p-text with xAtD). On 2763 cf. also Vian, art. cit. 19. The hand is at present unidentified, but known in other MSS (thus Professor Harlfinger, in correspondence).

9 Both end with line 245, and textually are classed as Parisini; cf. Kost, op. cit. 57f.; Gelzer, T., Mus. Helv. 24 (1967), 129ff.Google Scholar; Ludwich, A., Über die Handschriften des Epikers Musäos (Königsberg, 1896)Google Scholar.

10 Par. 2763 = D Pertusi: only this and 2833 (C Pertusi) have the same set of Prolegomena, and they are also virtually unanimous in their readings.

11 Both are ‘purely Triclinian’ (West, M. L., CQ 24 [1974], 184)Google Scholar.

12 E.g. in Laur. 70.35; Laur. Aedil. 220; Leidensis B.P.G. 74; Riccardianus 53; and Vat. Pal. 179. In Ambr. 734 (S 31 sup.) Callimachus (e Pfeiffer) and Pindar are appended; in Harv. Coll. Ms. Typ. 18, Aratus.

13 Cf. West, M. L., Hesiod, Works and Days (Oxford, 1978), p. 68Google Scholar.

14 Cf. Pertusi, op. cit., with references to earlier studies. I am most grateful to Professor D. Harlfinger for his generous response to my enquiries.