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Résumé :

This short contribution describes a Greek manuscript fragment which was recently discovered in the archive of the basilica of St. Caterina d’Alessandria in the Apulian city of Galatina (province of Lecce). It is a single sheet of parchment on which an epigram dedicated to the Trojan hero Hector (Anth. Pal. IX, 387) and two portraits of Achilles have been copied from the text and miniatures of the famous Venice manuscript Marc. gr. Z. 454 (mid-10th cent.), which is better known as the Ilias picta or Homerus Venetus A. In the second half of the 16th century, this sheet was re-used as the cover for the Liber mortuorum of Anthony Arcudius, protopapas of the Salentine city of Soleto.