Four Manuscripts of Unattached Scholia on Oppian’s Halieutica by Andreas Darmarios

TLDR: In fact, all of the surviving copies of Darmarios' Oppianic scholia were written in either Madrid or Salamanca, derived from exemplars that have not survived as mentioned in this paper.

Abstract: KANUSCRIPT TRADITION of scholia on appian's Halieutica, separate from the text of the poem, appears to have devel oped during the second or early third quarter of the sixteenth century in Spain. 1 Andreas Darmarios, the disreputable buttreeminent scribe and manuscript dealer of his day, . discovere such a Ms. late in the 1580s at Madrid and exploited the relatively novel nature of its content; he is responsible for six of the eight extant Mss. of unattached Halieutica scholia. After he had emigrated from Greece to settle in Venice as a young man during the 1560s, Darmarios also spent a good deal of time in Spain, particularly in the seventies and eighties, selling Mss. to and copying from the libraries of prominent Spanish humanists and collectors. In fact, all of the surviving copies of Darmarios' Oppianic scholia were written in either Madrid or Salamanca, derived from exemplars that have not survived. Of the four such Mss. to be considered here, the earliest copy, Salamanca 2730 (previously Palacio gr. 39), is dated in Darmarios' colophon to 24 July 1577.2 We may view this as the time of his introduction to this corpus of scholia. It was evidently a fruitful discovery, for Darmarios returned to the source at least three times to make virtually identical copies of the text. At the termination of his second oldest copy, Escorial gr. 569, dated in