BIBLIOGRAPHY

The manuscripts Handwritten copies of the text produced before the invention of the printing press. of the Odyssey have been most carefully studied and classified by Mr. T. W. Allen, the results of whose studies are given in the Papers of the British School at Rome, volume 5, pages 1-85, and briefly in his Oxford text of the Odyssey. Chief among the manuscripts are:

Laurentian Manuscript 32, 24 and Laurentian Manuscript 52, both of the tenth century, in the Laurentian Library at Florence.
Harleian Manuscript 5674, of the thirteenth century, in the British Museum.
Ambrosian Manuscript B. 99 supplementary, of the thirteenth century, in the Ambrosian Library at Milan.
Marcian Manuscript 613, of the thirteenth century, in the Library of Saint Mark’s in Venice.
Palatine Manuscript 45, written in 1201, in the Palatine Library at Heidelberg.

PRINTED EDITIONS

First Printed Edition original: "Editio Princeps", by Demetrius Chalcondyles, Florence, 1488; Aldine Press editions, 1504 and 1507; Juntine Press edition, 1519; Bekker, Bonn, 1856; Kirchhoff, Berlin, 1859 and 1879; La Roche, Leipzig, 1867-8; Fick, Göttingen, 1883; Ameis-Hentze, Leipzig (in many editions since 1856); Hayman, London, 1866-82; Merry and Riddell, Books 1-12, Oxford, second edition, 1886; Ludwich, Leipzig, 1889-91; van Leeuwen and da Costa, Leyden, 1890; Monro, Books 13-24, Oxford, 1901; Hennings, a critical commentary without text, Berlin, 1903.

The most convenient text editions are those in the Oxford and the Teubner series; that by Monro (The Works and Remains of Homer original: "Homeri Opera et Reliquiae"), Oxford; that by Cauer, Leipzig; and that by Platt, Cambridge.

There are editions of the Greek Scholarly Annotations original: "Scholia" — ancient commentaries and explanatory notes written in the margins of manuscripts by early teachers and scholars. by Buttmann, Berlin, 1821, and by Dindorf, Oxford, 1855, and of the Commentary of Eustathius Eustathius of Thessalonica was a 12th-century archbishop and scholar whose massive commentary preserved much ancient knowledge about Homer., Berlin, 1825-6.