Il Matritensis RAH 9/2170 e gli altri testimoni primari dell’Economico di Senofonte

The paper describes the ten primary witnesses of the text of Xenophon’s Oeconomicus and undertakes the study of their relationships. The affinity between the Madrid codex RAH 9/2170 and the Laur. plut. 55.21 is evident: both were copied in northern Italy from the lost codex belonging to Guarino Veronese. Equally clear is the affinity between the codices Guelf. 71.19 and Vat. Reg. gr. 96; for these two manuscripts the hypothesis of a Peloponnesian origin is raised here. Since the remaining six primary witnesses are certainly Constantinopolitans, it seems possible to distinguish a stirps Italica, a stirps Peloponnesiaca and a stirps Constantinopolitana. All ten witnesses descend from a medieval archetype.