Gli scoli agli Aforismi ippocratici nel Vaticanus gr. 277

MS Vaticanus graecus 277 (14th c.) is not only an important testimony for the manuscript tradition of the Hippocratic collection, but it also proves to be very interesting for the tradition of later commentaries on the Hippocratic texts. It contains, in fact, many marginal scholia and interlinear glosses, which mostly represent excerpts from the commentaries by Galen or late-antique authors. The present contribution focuses on scholia and glosses on the Hippocratic Aphorisms, which derive from the commentaries by Theophilus and Galen. The texts of the scholia are here transcribed for the first time, and closely compared with the nowadays-available editions of the writings of the two commentators. Through this analysis, the paper investigates the way in which the byzantine scholiast reworked and excerpted Galen’s and Theophilus’ original commentaries.