Clement of Alexandria I: Protrepticus and Paedagogus

There are two old hands that have written many remarks in the margin. The one that wrote with greenish ink1 is the same hand that provided the marginal notes in Laur. V 3. The other hand, whose writing is now reddish-brown, is older and only reproduces the scholia of P. There is not a single word from this hand that would not also be found—or have been found—in P. This hand is, however, identical to the one that wrote ff. 2–237 (for further proof, see my Studies on the Scholia, pp. 10 ff). Since it also placed the scholia in the margin of ff. 238 ff, the origin of the manuscript should be thought of as follows: two scribes shared the task of copying; in doing so, they accidentally copied a piece (from Tatian) twice. The scribe of the first part completed the copy of both parts by adding the marginal notes. That M was copied from P is shown by the exact agreement in all text corrections and in the scholia. The copy is very careful. Later hands have correctly corrected some items; cf., e.g., pp. 71, 6; 76, 25; 83, 16.

That M is identical with the manuscript of Rodulphus Pius of Carpi used by Victorius has been proven by Barnard (op. cit., p. Xf) from the aforementioned note "292 charte" 292 leaves, and by myself (op. cit., p. 5 f) from the fact that a portion of the scholia of M (including those originating from later hands) passed into the Latin translation of Hervetus, who used the same copy as Victorius.

Finally, it should be mentioned that the manuscript came to Paris in 1796, but was returned to Modena in 1815. On the inside back cover, there is a note regarding this:

"This codex was taken away from the Estense Library on October 11, 1796, by the French commissioners and was recovered in Paris by the commissioners of His Royal Highness Francis IV. Messieurs Antonio Lombardi, librarian, and Antonio Boccolari, on October 21, 1815."

Giuseppe Müller collated the manuscript for Dindorf in September 1863; my own collation dates from January 1896.

d. Laur. V 24.

F is a parchment manuscript from the 12th century; the height of the parchment is 24.1 cm, the width 20 cm; the height of the script is 14.7 cm, the width 11.7 cm. Each page contains one column with 19 lines each, only on

1) The scribe of these marginal notes was not distant in time from Arethas. He knew that the latter was an opponent of the fourth marriage of the Emperor Leo (cf. pp. 332, 7–9) and that Arethas was the author of most of the marginal notes in M. He therefore placed the heading Ἀρέθα Arethas before the scholion on p. 332, 1 ff.