Contents
Venetus A contains the following in one volume:
- a full text of the Iliad in ancient Greek
- marginal critical marks, shown by finds of ancient papyri to reflect fairly accurately those that would have been in Aristarchus' edition of the Iliad
- damaged excerpts from Proclus' Chrestomathy, namely the Life of Homer, and summaries of all of the Epic Cycle except the Cypria
- two sets of marginal scholia on the Iliad:
- the "A scholia", derived largely from the work of Aristarchus
- some "D scholia", discussing difficulties in the meanings of words
- among the above, a very few exegetical scholia (exegetical scholia are far more characteristic of the "B" and "T" scholia)
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