The Parisinus Suppl. gr. 388 (A, s. x) throws a new light on the revival of Greek culture in southern Italy and Sicily during the Norman times (1071-1194). Three of the poets it contains, Theognis, 'Phocyli- des' and Dionysius the Periegete, have been glossed in latin by an anonymous twelfth-century translator, who collated for this purpose other manuscripts. One of those, the Gudianus gr. 46 (W, s. XI) offers fragments of the Parisinus' gloss between the lines of his Dionysius'text. This article points out that the version of Dionysius, the oldest ever tempted in the West of a whole Greek poem, depends on the paraphrase found in the margins of the Gudianus. It appears that a real edition of the Periegesis, based on both manuscripts, has be...