Proclus: Commentary on Plato's Timaeus, Vol. II

I CODICVM CONSPECTVS

Catalog of Manuscripts

C PARISINVS COISLINIVS 322 Paris Coislin Manuscript 322 (cf. H. Omont, Inventaire sommaire des manuscrits grecs de la Bibliothèque nationale Summary inventory of the Greek manuscripts of the National Library III p. 182) square, 23.5 x 18 cm, parchment, from the end of the 11th or beginning of the 12th century 1), 402 folios: one gathering of three trinio three-sheet gathering ε̅ (fols. 1–6), followed by 49 gatherings of four quaterniones four-sheet gatherings (ς̅–νδ̅ fols. 7–397 [since the number 135 is missing, and 281 is repeated; in νβ̅ the fifth folio has been cut out]) and νϵ̅ (fols. 398, 399, to which three blank ones are attached). Each page contains twenty-seven or twenty-eight lines of about 25 letters each.

It contains the first and second books, though not even these are complete: the missing gatherings α̅ β̅ γ̅ δ̅ are accurately filled by the lost text up to p. 32, 2 ἐκεῖνο μᾶλλον that rather |, which is why I have noted this, as will appear from the description of the next book (p. VIII). Furthermore, on folio 116^r, p. 150, 19 | πρῶτον μὲν τὸ first the up to p. 156, 11 παντὶ προμηθίαν foresight to all | has fallen out; between gatherings μη̅ and μθ̅, p. 394, 5 | τοῦ νοῦ τὴν the mind's up to p. 408, 9 παραγενέσθαι τῷ to happen to the | τοῦτο δὲ this but is missing. The first lacuna covers about the space of six folios, the other covers two gatherings.

Learned scholia marginal annotations/commentary had been added to the archetype in the Byzantine era 2) by a certain Christian 3). Interpretations of individual words sometimes seem to have crept into the text (p. XXXIV).

1. cf. Heiberg in Kroll, de orac. chald. on the Chaldean Oracles p. 2¹.
2. cf. schol. C at p. 42, 16. 97, 22.
3. at p. 122, 11 s ὑμεῖς ἀσεβέστατοι, ἡμεῖς δὲ τὸ τῶν χριστιανῶν γένος ἔνθεον καὶ εὐσεβέστατον you are most impious, but we are the race of Christians, inspired by God and most pious.