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The Plato Manuscripts W 
and Lobcovicianus 

David]. Murphy 

I N A RECENT NOTE, LIDIA PERRIA 1 has identified the scribe of 
Lobcovicianus VI Fa 1 (=L) 2 with the principal scribe of 
Vind. suppl. gr. 7 (= W),3 a primary witness to the text of 

Plato. 4 It had long been maintained that L is a copy of W.5 On 
the strength of her identification of the scribes as the same man, 
however, Perri a suggests that Wand L may have been copied 
independently from the same exemplar in the eleventh cen­
tury.6 If she is right, Perri a's conclusions would be important 
for students of Plato as well as for palaeographers, for she raises 
the possibility that L may be a new primary witness. Unfor­
tunately, neither Perri a's hypothesis of the independence of L 
nor her identification of its scribe can be correct. 

1 L PERRIA, "Note paleografiche," RStBiz N.S. 22-23 (1985-86: hereafter 
'Perria') 82-89; her contribution to a recent collection of studies of L in Studi 
su codici e papiri filosofici (=StAccTosc 129 [Florence 1992]) 103-36 reached 
me too late for use here but docs not affect the present argument.. 

2 On L cf. E. GOLLOB, "Verzeichnis der griechischen Handschriften in 
Osterreich augerhalb Wiens," SBWien 146 (1903: hereafter 'Gollob') 108; J.­
M. Olivier and M.-A. Monegier du Sorbier, Catalogue des manuscrits grecs de 
Tschecoslo'lJaquie (Paris 1983) 97-103. L is the siglum used by Perria et al.; the 
Ms. has been designated Lobc by Slings, Bater, Jonkers (n.11 infra) and 
myself elsewhere (n.12 infra). 

3 On W cf H. Diels, "Ober den Wiener Platocodex W (Suppl. phil. gr. 7)," 
SBBer! (1906) 749; H. Hunger, Katalog der griechischen Handschriften der 
Osterreichischen Nationalbibliothek. Supplementum graecum (=Biblos­
Schriften 15 [Vienna 1957]) 13; O. Mazal, Byzanz und das Abendland. 
Katalog einer Ausstellung der Handschriften- und Inkunabelsammlung der 
Osterreichischen Nationalbibliothek (Graz 1981) 313ff. 

4 The independence of W was first proved by J. Kral, "Ober den Plato­
codex der Wiener Hofbibliothek Suppl. phil. gr. 7," WS 14 (1892) 161-208. 

5 First argued by M. Schanz, Ober den Platocodex der Markusbibliolhek in 
Venedig Append. Class. 4 Nr. 1 (Leipzig 1877) 62, and J. Kral, "De Platonis 
cod ice Lobkoviciensi," ListFil13 (1886) 359f. 

6 Perria 84. She is probably right in assigning W to late s. xi (cf her" II 
codice W di Platone e il Vat. gr. 407," RStBiz N.s.20-21 [1983-84J 99ff), al­
though it could be younger. 

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First, there can be no doubt that L is a copy of W. Kdl (supra 
n.S) had already offered decisive proof based on blank spaces or 
false conjectures in L that correspond to words that are trunca­
ted on torn leaves of W. Perria discounted Kral's evidence on 
the strength of her thesis that the scribes were the same man: in 
her view, not enough time could have elapsed for damage to W 
to have occurred when L was copied.? But this does not follow, 
and these errors of L cannot plausibly have arisen from W's 
exemplar; the nature of damage to W makes it clear that W once 
contained more letters than the scribe of L read. To Kdl's evi­
dence from Euthyd., add: 29SE2 KUAAtoV £7tt<J"ta<Jat] KUAAt I ::'v 
£7t::'<J"ta<Jat W: KUAAt<J"t' UV £7tt<J"ta<Jat L; 296c1 8-6vato] 8-6 I vaw 
W: 8-6 sic spat. relict. L. 8 Further, Cra. 439E 7 1m' ... 440A 2 
YVo)<JOdTl was omitted but added i.m. by the first scribe of W. 
The edge of the folio was later cropped, cutting off some of the 
marginal words. Here again, L tried to restore by guesswork: 
i.e., 440A 1 uv £7ttov'tO<;] absciss. in W im: £<In L; ibid. &),),,0 Kat] 
aA- sic absciss. Wim: &AAO L.CI also La. 194 AS av8pda] evanid. 
in W: om. L. 

Second, W as we now have it was copied by three different 
scribes. 9 L reproduces each scribe's work almost exactly, includ­
ing W3's inserted Symp. and La. leaves, where L follows W3, 10 

7 Perria 85, although she grants that other evidence may show L to be a 
copy of W. Olivier and Mom:gier du Sorbier (supra n.2: 98) also express doubt 
that L is a copy of W. 

8 I indicates line break; *, damage. Kral (supra n.5: 360) reports that a sheet 
of paper had once been glued onto the torn edge of fol. 464v in W. This sheet 
obscured some of the letters at the beginning of lines. 

I have used films in the Yale Plato Microfilm Archive to collate L, Par. gr. 
1808 (=Par), and Escorialensis Y I 13 (=Ese) in various dialogues, including 
Cra. and La., and film provided by the Nationalbibliothek to collate W. For 
Bodl. Clarke 39 (=B) and Ven. gr. Append. Cl. IV.l (= T) in Symp. I have used 
Burnet's apparatus; in La. I have collated T from microfilm and B from T. 
W. Allen, Plato Codex Oxoniensis Clarkianus 39 phototypice edilus (Leiden 
1898). Ese is a copy of T through Par in these dialogues. 

9 WI (the seribe studied by Perri a) eopies the bulk of the codex. W2 copies 
Clit., Resp., and Ti. W3 copies Timaeus Locrus and supplies fol. 139 Tht., fol. 
256 in Symp. and fol. 486-88 in La. Cf Dicls, Hunger, and Mazal (supra n.3) 
and L. Post, The Vatican Plato and its Relations (Middletown 1934) 31f. 

10 Two errors of L (La. 190E5 i:EltAAlt J i:EltAn L, and 190E6 q>£UYOl] q>£uyn L) 
arise from W3's attempt to abbreviate by leaving off the ending of each verb. 
Cf also Symp. 173c7 ol£ofk BTEscLir: Ot£OElCt.l W3L""; 174A5 01tOl BTEse: 01tT] 
W3L; La. 186E1 f.1tCt.·fnv BTEse: £1tm:ounv W3L; 187E81tp<Yr£povBTEse: am. 



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even against W3's source, Esc .11 L cannot have copied those 
leaves from WI's exemplar, for this either had lacunae or a text 
different from Esc, which is in another Ms. family. W3 did not 
copy L; cf e.g. La. 189A 7 ,.lav8uvcov BTEscW3: 8aujluscov L; 
189B5 O'uv8l£Klv8uv£uO'a<; BTEscW3: O'uv£Klv8uv£uO'a<; L; 190E6 
£1:> lO'Sl BTEscW3: olO'S' L. 

Finally, in era. and La. as well as in other dialogues, L repeats 
all the errors of Wand adds errors of its ownP L is correct 
against W only in cases of errors easy to emend, many of them 
involving orthography or quotations from poetry. This is the 
classic pattern presented by an apograph. L, then, is of no value 
for the text save as a source of lectiones singulares. 

Now, to the two scribes. Perria (supra n.6: 96-99) is right, as 
far as I can judge from the plates, in her identification of WI and 
the scribe of Vat. gr. 407. It appears, however, that she has been 
misled by the small portions of L shown in plates printed by 
Gollob and OlivieriMoncgier du Sorbier (supra n.2). Although 
the hands of Wl and L are very much alike, down to many 
details of letter forms and ductus, fundamental differences 
show that the two scribes are not the same man. 

I. Overall Look of the Script (cl PLATES 2 and 3) 

(a) W 1 's letter forms are more oblong and less uniformly 
rounded than L's. (b) Wl's acute accents are at an angle of 45° 

W3L; 188B4 autip BTEsc: auto W3L; 190A2 o~ BTEsc: ot<J1t£p W3L; 190A4 
~<; BTEscLPC: d:; W3 Lac (and six other separative errors). 

11 Esc is the source of W3's added leaves. Cf Symp. 173 Dl EflE i)y£'ioB£ Par: 
EIlE TjYEtoOmBT:TjYEtOOE EIlE EscW3; 174E20t Photius b: oiBTPar:tov 
Esc pcW3; 175A8 KUflOD Esc pcW3: Kat oi) B T: Kat OOD Par Esc ac; La. 186E6 
flaOOVt£ BTPar: flaOOVt£~ EscW3; 187A6 Y£VOIlEVOt BTPar:YlyvoIlEVOl 
EscW3; 187B4 ()\Jfll3aivn E s cpcslW3,1 (confirms Bekker): o\Jfl~aiv£l BTPar 
Esc"'; 190c9 lO(o~ BTParEsc: loOl W3 (Esc's compendium for (O~ looks like 
Eh). W3 is a copy of Esc in TL as well; cf W. Marg, Timaeus Locrus. De 
Natura Mundi et Animae 2 (Leiden 1972) 20f. 

W2 also descends from Esc in Resp. and Clit. Cf G. Boter, The Textual 
Tradition of Plato's Republic (=Mnemosyne Supp!. 107 [Leiden 1989]) 160ff; S. 
R. Slings, "Notes on Some Manuscripts of the Clitophon, " Mnemosyne SER.4 
40 (1987) 37ff. In Ti., it is a copy of Par. gr. 2998; cf G. Jonkers, The Manu­
script Tradition of Plato's Timaeus and Critias (diss.Amsterdam 1989) 203ft. 

12 To discuss them would create unnecessary tedium. For other dialogues cf 
Marg, Boter, Slings, and Jonkers (supra n.11); A. Carlini, Platone. Alcibiade, 
Alcibiade secondo, Ipparco, Rivali (Torino 1964) 28f; D. Murphy, "The 
Manuscripts of Plato's Charmides," Mnemosyne SER. 4 43 (1990) 332. 



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or less; those of L at an angle of 60° or more. (c) WI forms 
smooth breathing marks with a two-part stroke: down, then 
across, with varying degrees of roundness. There is also an 
occasional square breathing mark. L always makes smooth 
breathing marks with one rounded stroke: across, then down. I 
would consider (b) and (c) decisive by themselves.13 (d) Unlike 
WI, L displays elements of Fettaugen-M ode, esp. on fo1. 1-28 
and after fo1. 500: enlarged epsilon (both types), omicron, sigma, 
sometimes alpha or phi. 14 

II. Formation of Letters, Ligatures 

(a) WI frequently forms q, EO, EU, and eX ligatures with an 
ascending crest and a stroke descending from its middle to 
begin the next letter (el PLATE 2 passim). With E~, E~, and E1t, 

WI's ascending crest creates occasional "ace of spades" ligatures 
(el PL. 2, line 26), although WI's overall style is not so-called en 
as de pique. 15 Epsilon ligatures whose next stroke descends 
from the middle are rare in L. When they do appear, crests are 
normally descending (el PL. 3, ii lines 10, 15). If ascending crests 
appear at all, they are added as separate strokes. (b) WI's 
majuscule nu often continues the diagonal stroke down to the 
right beyond its junction with the vertical ascender to form a 
pronounced point (PL. 2, line 3, last line). (c) The bottom of L's 
minuscule nu often approximates a point ( cl PL. 3). Cd) Many of 
WI's majuscule eta's are twice as tall or more as their width and 
have wavy verticals (P L. 2, line 9). Those of L are rarely taller 

13 Angle of accents and the method of writing round spiritus Lenis are likely 
to remain stable features over the career of a scribe, even if other elements of 
his script may develop. These two features remain stable in e.g. the script of 
Joasaph (cf L. Politis, "Eine Schreiberschule im Kloster 'tWV • 00rrYwv , " BZ 51 
[1958J Abb. 1-9) or Ephrem (cf L. Perria, "Un nuovo codice di Efrem: L' Urb. 
gr. 130," RStBiz N.S. 14-16 [1977-79J Tav. 1-7; B. Metzger, Manuscripts of the 
Greek Bible [New York 1981J PI. 32; G. Prato, "II monaco Efrem c la sua 
scrittura. A proposito di un nuovo codice sottoscritto (Athen. 1)," ScritCi7.1 6 
[1982J Tav. 1-8). 

14 Cf H. Hunger, "Die sogennante Fettaugen-Mode in griechischen Hand­
schriften des 13. und 14. Jahrhunderts," ByzF 4 (1972) 105-13 with Abb. 1-7. 

15 I have not seen "ace of spades" Ep ligatures in W. On the style cf M. L. 
Agati, "'L' As de pique' fuori d'ltalia: qualche osservazione," Byzantion 53 
(1983) 347-53; M. Formentin, "Altri esempi di grafia 'Ad asso di picche' 
(Marc. gr. 579 e 11,196)," in P. L. Leone, ed., Studi bizantini e neogreci. Aui 
del IV Congresso Nazionale di Studi Bizantini (Galatina 1983) 127-35, who 
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than one-and-a half times their width and lack the wavy look. 
These factors disallow identification of the scribes as the same 
man. 

III. Frequency of Certain Features 

This material does not generate 'proof', strictly speaking, for 
scribes do change features of writing style within a codex or 
develop them over the years. Indeed, statistical analysis of 
many of L's usages is problematic, for the scribe modifies 
features of his script several times as he goes along.16 The 
following differences, however, are stark enough that they 
become difficult to harmonize with the "identity" thesis. 

(a) Forms of Kat (in percentages),17 

WI L 
Agati Type: A C G I Type: A C G 

fol. 10r-13v 56 42 fa!. 8r-11 v 15 77 8 
fol. 78r-81 v 70 29 1 fol. 67r-70v 11 87 2 
fol. 28)v-287r 67 27 2 3 fa!. 238r-240v (inc!. unnumb. fol.) 

6 94 
fol. 482r-485v 55 35 3 7 fol. 421r-424v 2 83 15 

I have seen a Type L on fol. 83v of L; none in W. (b) L encloses 
omicron inside lunar sigma occasionally at line end, a feature 
lacking in Wl. (c) Wl often reduces H ligature, less often £1, to 

16 L's script usually inclines to the right at 100°-105°, but in fo!' 29 to ca 91 
it inclines at 105°-110° and in sections with extensive scholia (e.g. Phaedrus) it 
is almost vertical. Proportionate size of rounded letters diminishes at fol. 29, 
although the first scribe is clearly still at work (so too conclude Olivier and 
Monegier du Sorbier), but it gradually increases again, beginning about fo1. 91. 
Percentage of minuscule to majuscule eta is 91 %-99% on 28r-v, 85v, 421r and 
433r; on 29r-v it is 26%-74%. Elsewhere, letter size is reduced when scholia 
are extensive, but beginning on fo1. 451, which contains only two words i.m., 
letter size drops temporarily from ca 21.7 letters per line on 450v (consistent 
with most of L) to 26.1 letters on lines of the same width. 

17 M. L. Agati, "La congiunzione lCU i nella minuscola libraria greca," 
ScritCi'V 8 (1984) 69-81, esp. 71f, distinguishes these types, among others: 

Type A: three minuscule letters written out 
Type C: three letters written out, majuscule kappa 
Type G: cursive ligature with majuscule kappa 
Type I: tachygraphic abbreviation resembling an 5 
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its minimum shape (ef PI. 2, line 20), a form avoided by L. Cd) L 
employs hyphens passim in the left margin to join words 
divided by line end (ef. Gollob PI. 5 n.t) but uses no 
paragraph os. The reverse is true for Wl. (e) WI's mute iota is 
ad script. L follows suit, but I have detected subscript iota on 
fol. 29-30 and 451r. 

Scholars have disputed L's date. 18 Although its heavy use of 
minuscule forms and overall similarity to WI make L look close 
to it in age, some features would suggest L is at least a century 
or two later (ef supra Ib-d; lIa, c; IlIa, d-e).19 Certainty, how­
ever, is provided only by its derivation from W3, the terminus 
post quem of which Marg (supra n.ll: 20) has established as 
1314. Thus, although L offers little help to the editor of Plato, it 
is interesting as an apparent product of a versatile, archaizing 
scribe. The codex was a de luxe piece ( ef Perria 87f), and it is 
tempting to speculate that this factor, as well perhaps as the 
influence of W, helped induce L's scribe to be sensitive to 
earlier canons. 20 

ST HILDA'S & ST HUGH'S SCHOOL, NEW YORK 

September, 1992 

18 To various proposed dates of L listed by Perria 84, add Diels (supra n.3) s. 
xv; Post (supra n.9: 32f) and Jonkers (supra n.11: 66): s. xiv. N. G. Wilson, 
reviewing Olivier and Monegier du Sorbier (ef supra n.2), CR N.S. 35 (1985) 
176, correctly suspected that L is an archaising Ms. of at least s. xiv. He notes 
that the illumination appears to be Western, although that could have been 
added at a later time (so Perria 88). On the date of Wef supra n.6. 

19 On implications of forms of epsilon ligatures for dating, ef E. Follieri, 
"La minuscola libraria dei secoli ix e x," in La Paleographie greeque et 
byzantine (= Colloques Intemationaux du CNRS 559 [Paris 1977]) 140ff. On 
those of lw.i ef Agati (supra n.17) 74, 80f; of iota subscript ef N. G. Wilson, 
"Miscellanea Palaeographica," GR BS 22 (1981) 397-400. Although there are 
earlier examples, a hyphen in the left margin to show separation of syllables 
does not appear with any frequency before the thirteenth century. Alexander 
Alexakis and I are preparing a study of this mark. 

20 L's script, however, does not archaize by replicating eleventh-century 
Perlsehrift, as do many Mss. of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Cf H. 
Hunger, "Archaisierende Minuskel und Gebrauchsschrift zur Bliitezeit der 
Fettaugenmode," in Paleographie greeque et byzantine (supra n.19) 283-90; G. 
Prato, "Scritture librarie arcaizzanti della prima eta dei Paleologi e loro 
modelli," ScritCiv 3 (1979) 151-93, esp. 191 f on the role of the wealthy; H. 
Hunger and O. Kresten, "Archaisierenden Minuskel und Hodegonstil im 14. 
Jahrhundert," JOBG 29 (1980) 187-236; J. Irigoin, "Une ccriture d'imitation: 
Ie Palatinus Vatieanus graeeus 186," IlClSt 6 (1981) 416-30. 



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Ms. Lobcovicianus Radnice VI Fa 1, fol. 85v: Plato, era. 434E6-435E8. 
(Courtesy Narodnf knihovna v Praze [Prague]) 

(photograph reduced to 93 %)