ABSTRACT
By 1795, Friedrich Wolf responded with his monumental Prolegomena ad Homerum, a work often singled out as the starting point for all subsequent scholarship on Homer, but readers outside the academy were equally interested. On completion of our photography, the author briefly examines a number of other manuscripts in the Marciana Library to see if they were in a condition to be photographed by future scholars without special conservation. Working from the new digital images, the faculty members of the Homer Multitext project began the slow task of learning to read the manuscript’s scholia written in a minute hand and dense with abbreviations. For the purposes of the Homer Multitext project, the author records the unique text of the Venetus A’s Iliad, as he records the unique text of each individual Iliad his edit, but the author expects that he readily reconciles our digital edition of the scholia with existing critical editions.
