Starting smart: Scholia and mise en page of the book-beginnings in the Venetus A

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Eldik, Alex van (2014)

Starting smart: Scholia and mise en page of the book-beginnings in the Venetus A

Bachelor thesis | Griekse en Latijnse taal en cultuur (BA)

It is known that the density of ancient commentaries is higher in the beginning of the book. I connected this with the mise en page of the Venetus A manuscript, one of the most famous Iliad manuscripts. The content from different sources is divided over different places on the page. The scribe made his own choices in selecting the content for the manuscript, but was guided by the pedagogical tradition before him, in which the first 12 books of the Iliad were the most important. The amount and content of the scholia is very diverse.