1 Answers
The Anthology of Planudes , from the first line of the manuscript], is an anthology of Greek epigrams and poems compiled by Maximus Planudes, a Byzantine grammarian and theologian, based on the Anthology of Cephalas. It comprises 2,400 epigrams.
The Anthology of Planudes starts with the text: «Ανθολογία διαφόρων επιγραμμάτων, συντεθειμένων σοφοίς, επί διαφόροις υποθέσεσιν...» and consists of seven books.
It can be found in an autograph copy of Planudes in Biblioteca Marciana in Venice but also in two apographs, one in an incomplete edition and the other in the final edition of the anthology , as well as in several printed editions.
Several printed copies of the Planudean Anthology were made, as it was the only known anthology of Greek epigrams and poems until 1606, when the Palatine Anthology manuscript was found.