The Amphibian Iliad is what remains of a manuscript that contained all of the Iliad, dating back to about 500 BC and unanimously believed to have been made today in Alexandria, after attributions were backed by authoritative scholars. In the 12th century the miniatures were cut and glued on a Calabrian-Sicilian hardcover code containing homeric corpus material. In 1609, with the purchase by Gian Vincenzo Pinelli, the cuttings entered the heritage of the Ambrosiana Library, where they are now preserved with the F. 205 Inf. Stamp, were purchased by the Ambrosiana Library in Milan. In 1811 Angelo Mai, librarian of the Ambrose, believed that the manuscript was from the third century, so that it was very important for the text (which then turned out to be a rather poignant version of the poem), to make the writing better in order to a decipherment, subjected the sheets to chemical reagents, with the consequence that most of the color of the miniatures fell, and reduced them to the miserable state we are seeing today. There are 58 thumbnails of the original code. In 1819, Mai Mai released the fragments: Iliadis fragmented antiquity cum picturis item scholia vety at Odysseam. The most complete study is that of Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli (whose publication was for years oppressed by the Library, since the well-known archaeologist was part of the PCI), where he however proposed Constantinople as a place of execution and not Alexandria (to be rewritten after years of paleographic studies by Guglielmo Cavallo and those on the illustrations by Kurt Weitzmann): Hellenistic-Byzantine Miniatures of the Iliad (Ilias Ambrosiana), Olten 1955. Other designers wikitesto
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