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

phtharta perishable things, ends on fol. 228v, hepomenon ho de tim the following, and the Timaeus (p. 343 A). There follow five leaves, written by a double hand as we have said, which exhibit both the end of the commentaries (fol. 229r to fol. 232v middle) and, after a blank space of almost one line, the beginning of the Proclian Melissa Bee/Anthology (fol. 232v—233). An alien hand added part of the supplements to the first and second books of the commentary, which I published in the Rheinisches Museum vol. 54 (1899) p. 174 ff., both in the margin and in the text above the lines. The person who supplemented the Chisian manuscript used either codex N itself or another very similar to it; it is nowhere derived from the Bourbon codex, which does not even contain all those additions itself, whereas the Chisian manuscript is augmented and richer.

Otherwise, this book stands on the side of codices D and the Escorial manuscript; the relationship between these books is easily understood from the fragment of the Melissa.

Ernest Lommatzsch examined this in Rome in 1898, and I did so in 1900.

ESCORIAL T III 2 (cf. E. Miller, Catalogue des manuscrits grecs de la Bibliothèque de l’Escurial p. 133) square format. 402 paper leaves were written in the 16th century by various scribes. Although it once contained the entire commentary, the beginning is now lost up to p. 116, 13 apoleian destruction. On fol. 401v—402v, the Melissa on the speech of the Muses in the Republic has been added.

At the bottom of fol. 402v, the following is read:

This book is of ///////? and of the friendoriginal: "φίλω——ν" of the good.

The related codices are D and the Chisian manuscript (cf. p. XIV and p. XIX ff.).

Bruno Violet examined the book and collated the Melissa for me in 1899.

AMBROSIAN C 283 inf. paper 36 x 25 cm, 16th century, 228 leaves (22 quinternions, which are numbered alpha—theta, iota alpha—iota zeta, iota alpha—iota zeta, and one quaternion iota eta concluding the book), which one hand wrote throughout. In the tenth quinternion, p. 237, 2 s | oudamos apodeixei in no way will he prove up to p. 263, 4 touto de but this have been lost. Then the beginning of the third book is missing up to p. 163 A touto esti to en to no sphaerikon this is the spherical [form] in the intellect. But from eti de anotero proion and proceeding even higher the other quinternion, iota alpha, begins. The entire codex is deficient at p. 210 E of the same book | hama de somasi prosekousan and at the same time appropriate to bodies. The inscriptions of the first and second books are painted in minium red lead pigment, as are the lemmata of Plato, which are furthermore adorned with a nota mark and the word keimenon the text itself, to which the title of the interpretation exegesis responds.

Otherwise, it has preserved a few new additions in the text of the commentary, in the manner of the worst books which have been lost, such as Mus. Rhen. vol. 54 p. 175 to p. 62, 29, p. 181 to p. 227, 13 ff., p. 193 to p. 506, 11 s, whose lacuna this manuscript supplements only in part, along with Leonicus Thomaeus (th).

LUCENSIS of the public library 100 [1387] (cf. Festa, Studi ital. di filol. class. V 1897 p. 223) paper of largest format, written in the 15th/16th century, 489+42+10 leaves. It contains the five books of Proclus's commentary on the Timaeus with the subscription (fol. 489a) of the Munich codex. Attached are scholia on the Cratylus (42 leaves) written by the same hand, and by another, Josephus's On the Supremacy of Reason (10 leaves).

I saw this in Rome in the royal library in 1900, to which Eugenio Boselli had kindly sent the codex through the intervention of the royal ministry.

MARCIANUS Greek 194 (cf. Zanetti p. 109) octavo format (23.3 x 16), paper from the 15th century (?), almost eaten by bookworms. The leaves are not numbered.

Included furthermore is an anonymous commentary on the first four books of Aristotle's Physics, written by an alien hand.

I recognized this codex and the following one from photographic plates supplied by S. Morpurgo. Furthermore, I inspected both in Venice in 1899.