Clemente di Alessandra e gli apologeti greci fra Areta e Basilio Minimo (?). Il Mutinense a.S.5.9

This paper offers the first modern paleographical and codicological assessment of the Modena MS a.S.5.9, a direct copy of the well-known Paris. gr. 451, written for Arethas of Caesarea. This essay takes into account the scholia penned by a Byzantine reader of the Modena manuscript (M2). Annotation by this hand can also be found in the Laur. 5, 3, the only independent witness of Clement’s Stromateis. The individual who penned these scholia was a learned prelate who lived in the second half of the 10th century. The evi- dence collected suggests that M2 may be identified with Basilius Minimus, one of the suc- cessors of Arethas on the see of Caesarea.