Analecta Byzantina

The essay consists of five sections, dealing with some late-antique and byzantine epigrams and their manuscript tradition. (1) Edition and commentary of a brief collection of epigrams on Homer (all of them are already known from the Anthologia Graeca), which is preserved in a handful of Homeric manuscripts (Ambr. I 4 sup.; Bodl. Holkh. gr. 116; Lond. Harl. 5600; Malatest. plut. d. XXVII 2; Marc. gr. cl. IX 2a; Marc. gr. cl. IX 16; Vat. gr. 29; Vat. gr. 915). (2) Edition and commentary of an hitherto unpublished byzantine epigram on Homer, in five hexameters, which precedes the "homeric collection" in ms Vat. gr. 29. Critical notes on two epigrams of various content (AP IX 365; IGM 27 = App. Anth. II 732 Cougny), which follow the "homeric collection" in the same Vatican ms. (3) Edition and commentary of three hitherto unpublished byzantine epigrams (the first in elegiacs, the other two in hexameters), preserved in ms Vat. gr. 915. They are also tentatively attributed to the authorship of Maximos Planudes. (4) Critical notes to the text of the pomes of Constantine the Sicilian, preserved in ms Vat. gr. 915. (5) Critical note on the text of an epigram attributed the Patriarch Sophronios, preserved in ms Vat. gr. 1607.