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

XIX SVPPLEMENTVM CAPITIS PRIMI SUPPLEMENT TO CHAPTER ONE

Exposition of the philosopher on Plato's Timaeus. This book is mine, Bessarion, Cardinal, Bishop of Tusculum 1) cf. H. Omont, Revue des bibliothèques 4 (1894) p. 137..

Leaves 1r—4u, which contain Timaeus the Locrian concerning the soul of the world and nature (the title of which little book is painted in red), are followed by the five books of the commentary, of which the first two stand on the side of codex N, which is taught by other things and especially by a lacuna common to both books, which in this parchment is supplied by one inserted leaf (63). Nevertheless, the number of leaves in the quinternion is not disturbed, because two leaves are marked with the number 61.

The context of the third, fourth, and fifth books approaches the vulgate recension very closely. On leaf 266u, one meets the same subscription which ends the Munich Greek codex 382: So far have been found the things of Proclus on the Timaeus; whether he also explained the following is unclear.

The inscriptions of each book are painted in minium red lead pigment; the letters we call initials are artistically gilded, except for the title of the third book (leaf 182u), which was decorated only later.
I examined this in Venice in 1899.

PARISINVS The Paris manuscript Greek manuscript 1841 [FONTEBL.-REG. 2095], paper, 16th century (cf. Omont, Inventaire II p. 151), is a twin of codex D.
I saw this in Paris in 1898.

CHISIANVS The Chigi manuscript R VIII 58, largest format, bombycine cotton paper, 13th century (?), 233 leaves. The context, which has faded due to humidity and become lacunose, seems to have been filled in—if any faith is to be placed in the authority of the catalog—by the hand of Laur. Portius, the scribe of Leo Allatius (leaves 1—3 [= leaves 4—6 repeated]. 231), and by another much older hand of an 'elegant character' (leaves 229, 230, 232, 233).

Although there were once five complete books, now 32 leaves have perished before the fourth leaf, as it appears, four quaternions. The ancient book today begins at p. 130, 23 | "and"