Ricerche sugli scholia h dell'Iliade: il corpus esegetico dei codici Ambrosianus A 181 sup. e Parisinus graecus 2766

This dissertation aims to be a further step in the investigation of the sources and the manuscript tradition of the «scholia h» of the Iliad. It consists of an edition af the whole exegetical corpus (scholia marginal, interlinear, intermarginal and recentiora) of the manuscripts Ambrosianus A 181 sup. (XIV cent.) and Parisinus gr. 2766 (XV cent.), two witnesses of the h1 branch of the bipartite manuscript tradition of the scholia h, as reconstructed by H. Erbse. Scholia h are a long time neglected yet primary strand of Homeric philology, as they had indipendent access to the same prestigious sources from which also the Venetus A, the Etymologicum Genuinum and Eustathius drew, namely the lost Commentary of Apion and Herodorus (ApH), the D scholia, and an exegetical commentary, to which h added information excerpted from later works as the Epimerismi Homerici. The h recension, as both its palaeographical and codicological structure and its exegetical corpus seem to prove, appears to be a byzantine †˜commented edition' of the Iliad made by a school teacher in the XI cent., where fragments of ancient Homeric scholia coexists with more trivial and pedantic dissertations. In this way h is both a non negligible witness of ancient exegesis and an eminent testimony of the study and reception of Homeric poetry in Byzantium.