Ricerc@Sapienza

Within the broader overview of the Byzantine manuscripts of Aeschylys, the paper provides three case-studies: 1. an attempt to reconstruct the late antique models of the famous Mediceus Laur. Plut. 32.9 through an examination of its paratextual devices — especially the end titles — which differ significantly in some tragedies; 2. a detailed palaeographic analyses of MS Athon. Ivir. 161, which allows to back-date the aeschylean part of the manuscript to the 12th century and to identify some other hands engaged in copying other units; 3. the discovery of the problematic verse 539 of the Agamemnon added in the margins of the well known 10th century Plato MS Marc. gr. app. IV.1 (coll. 542) by Maximos Planudes, who offers the earliest direct evidence of the verse.