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What is the Venetus A manuscript of the Iliad?
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The Venetus A is a famous minuscule manuscript of the Iliad produced during the Byzantine Middle Ages. It is highly significant because it incorporates the best results of Greco-Roman scholarship, serving as a key example of the efforts to propagate accurate texts of Homerās epics long after their original composition.1