Anthology of Planude

The Anthologie of Planude is a compilation Byzantine 13th century gathering some 2400 epigram S, and due to Maxime Planude. It is preserved in a manuscript autograph preserved at Venice (Marc. gr. 481, of 1299), and two apographes revised in 1300 or 1305 under the supervision of Planude: one is with London (B.M. Add. 16409) and the other with Paris (B. NR. gr. 2744). This last, fragmentary, constitutes the final version of the anthology.

The provision of the epigrams in two blocks in the Marc manuscript. gr. 481 indicates that the author used two anthologies of epigrams to compose his, both close relations of the palatine Anthologie, as well as the anthology of Kephalas.

Planude laid out its selection in seven books: epigrams epideictic S, satirical, funerary, Ekphrasis, the ekphrasis of Christodore de Copte, epigrams votive and finally in love. In each one of these books, the epigrams are classified alphabetically.

Only 388 epigrams are not already present in the palatine Anthology. They are often gathered with share in one sixteenth book named Appendice planudéen in the modern editions of the Greek Anthologie.

See too

Choice of Epigrams drawn from L ''' Greek Anthology ''

Edition

Robert Aubreton (transl.), with the collab. of Felix Buffière, Greek Anthology II: Anthology of Planude XIII, Beautiful Letters, Paris, 1980.

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