Il Vat. gr. 141 di Appiano da Giovanni Xifilino a Giano Lascaris (passando per Pietro Miani e Guarino Veronese)

Unnoticed notes of ownership in two Vatican manuscripts, Vat. Gr. 108 and Vat. Gr. 141, show that these two manuscripts belonged to the patrician Pietro Miani (Venice 1362 – Vicenza 1433). Of peculiar interest is the second manuscript, Vat. Gr. 141 (XIth c.), the most ancient witness for the text of Appian’s History : it has marginal notes of Janus Lascaris and Guarino Veronese and, above all, there is good reason to think that ff. 7r-8v were written by the byzantine scholar John Xiphilinus. This is confirmed by the comparison with his marginal notes in codex Vat. Gr. 156