Manuscripts in the Biblioteca Marciana

Some significant manuscripts in the collection include:

Greek

• Gr. Z. 196 (=743): commentary by Olympiodorus on Plato's Gorgias and Alcibiades (ninth century) on-line
• Gr. Z. 228 (=406): includes Books I and II of Peri Psychēs by Aristotle with commentary by Simplicius of Cilicia and Sophonias and paraphrases by Themistius together with commentary by Pseudo-Diadochus on Plato's Timaeus, commentary by Simplicius of Cilicia on Aristotle's Peri Ouranoû, commentary by Ammonius Hermiae’s on Plato's Phaedrus, and commentary by Proclus on Plato's Parmenides. (fourteenth century) on-line
• Gr. Z. 313 (=690): Mathematiké sýntaxis by Ptolemy (tenth century)
• Gr. Z. 388 (=333): Geōgraphikḕ Hyphḗgēsis by Ptolemy with 27 map projections, commissioned by Bessarion and attributed to John Rhosos (fifteenth century)^[2]
• Gr. Z. 395 (=921): Romaiki istoria by Cassius Dio, the oldest manuscript containing Books XLIV, 35, 4–LX, 28, 3 (ninth century)
• Gr. Z. 447 (=820): Deipnosophistaí by Athenaeus of Naucratis, the oldest surviving and most complete extant text (tenth century) on-line
• Gr. Z. 453 (=821): "Homerus Venetus B" (eleventh century) on-line
• Gr. Z. 454 (=822): "Homerus Venetus A", text of Homer's Iliás epic with annotations, glosses, and commentaries (tenth century)^[3] on-line
• Gr. Z. 460 (=330): commentary on Homer's Odýsseia by Eustathius of Thessalonica, autograph copy (twelfth century)
• Gr. Z. 479 (=881): Cynegetica by Oppian of Apamea and Vita Oppiani by Constantine Manasses, the oldest illustrated version with 150 miniatures (eleventh century)^[4]
• Gr. Z. 481 (=863): Anthologia Planudea, autograph copy of Greek epigrams by Maximus Planudes (1299–1301)^[5] on-line

Italian

• It. VIII, 2 (=2796): De architectura by Antonio Averulino, commissioned for Matthias Corvinus and illustrated with 152 designs (fifteenth century)^[6] on-line
• It. IX, 276 (=6902): Divina Commedia by Dante Alighieri, illuminated with 170 miniatures (fourteenth century)^[7] on-line

Latin

• Lat. Z. 549 (=1597): "Codex Cumanicus", handbook of the Cuman language for missionaries with glossaries and a collection of religious texts, linguistic data, and folkloric materials (fourteenth century)^[8] on-line
• Lat. I, 99 (=2138): "Breviarium Grimani", Breviary illuminated by the Flemish miniaturists Gerard Horenbout and Alexander and Simon Bening, once belonging to Cardinal Domenico Grimani (c. 1515–1520)^[9] on-line
• Lat. I, 103 (=11925): "Evangelistarium Grimani", Gospel illuminated by Benedetto Bordone and Giulio Clovio for Cardinal Marino Grimani (1528)^[10] on-line
• Lat. VI, 86 (=2593): De remediis by Francesco Petrarch and Cato Maior de senectute by Cicero (fourteenth century)^[11]
• Lat. VI, 254 (=2976): Historia naturalis by Pliny the Elder, illuminated copy commissioned by Pico della Mirandola (1481)^[12]
• Lat. XII, 68 (=4519): De bello punico by Silius Italicus, illuminated by Zanobi Strozzi and Francesco Pesellino (fifteenth century)^[13] on-line
• Lat. XIV, 35 (=4054): De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii by Martianus Capella, illuminated by Attavante degli Attavanti for Matthias Corvinus (fifteenth century)^[14] on-line

Oriental languages

• Or. 90 (= 57): İskendernâme by Taceddin İbrahim bin Hizir Ahmedî, illuminated Ottoman version of the Alexander Romance (fifteenth century)^[15]

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  Plutarch, Ēthika
  Gr. Z. 248 (=328), fol. 5r.
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  Poimandres (Corpus Hermeticum)
  Gr. Z. 263 (=1025), fol. 42r.
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  Ptolemy, Geōgraphikḕ Hyphḗgēsis
  Gr. Z. 388 (=333), fol. 6v.
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  Athenaeus, Deipnosophistaí
  Gr. Z. 447 (=820), fol. 1r.
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  "Homerus Venetus A"
  Gr. Z. 454 (=822), fol. 24r.
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  Hero of Alexandria, Pneumatica
  Gr. Z. 516 (=904), fol. 172v.
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  Proclus, Theologia Platonica
  Gr. Z. 547 (=411), fol. 1r.
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  Dante, Divina Commedia
  It. IX, 276 (=6902), fol. 53v.
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  Pseudo-Aristotle, Liber de causis
  Lat. Z. 288 (=913), fol. 2r.
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  Breviarum Grimani
  Lat. I, 99 (=2138), fol. 286v.
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  Asclepius (Corpus Hermeticum)
  Lat. VI, 81 (= 3036), fol. 131v.
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  Silius Italicus, De bello punico
  Lat. XII, 68 (=4519), fol. 3r.

Old Testament

• Gr. Z. 1 (=320): Old Testament (beginning with the Book of Job), companion to the Vatican codice Vat. Gr. 2106 (eighth century) on-line
• Gr. Z. 17 (=421): "Psalmi cum catena", the 150 Psalms with commentary and illustrations, (tenth-early eleventh century) on-line
• Gr. Z. 538 (=540): "Catena in Job", text of the Book of Job with catena and 30 miniatures (905)

New Testament

• Fra Mauro map
• It. Z. 76 (=4783): "Bianco world map", nautical atlas by Andrea Bianco with eight portolan charts and two world maps (1436) on-line
• It. VI, 213 (=5982): "Corbitis Atlas" (early fifteenth century) on-line

There are some important music manuscripts. The composers represented include:

• Francesco Cavalli operas (from the collection of mostly Venetian opera manuscripts amassed by Marco Contarini, which was donated to the Biblioteca Marciana in 1843).^[16] Works include La Calisto (1651) and Erismena (1655, 1670).^[17]
• Domenico Scarlatti keyboard sonatas (volumes acquired from the singer Farinelli).^[18]