La nascita di un corpus di scolii a Sofocle: il caso del Parmensis 3176 (De Rossi 8) e del Marc. Gr. IX 27

This paper deals with the Renaissance tradition of the scholia on Sophocles, both ancient and Byzantine. The focus will be on the manuscript Parma, Biblioteca Palatina, Parm. 3176 which hands down a peculiar set of scholia on Sophocles whereby ancient and Byzantine scholia written by Manuel Moschopoulos, Thomas Magister and Demetrius Triclinius are combined. The aim is threefold: (1) to clarify the principles according to which the Parma set of scholia was put together; (2) to present the manuscript Venezia, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Marc. gr. ix 27 which I will show to be the only surviving complete apograph of the Parma recension; (3) to shed some light on the historical milieu of the manuscripts, with special regard to the vexed question of the missed opportunity of publishing the first print edition of the scholia to accompany the editio princeps of the tragedies of Sophocles (Venice 1502).