What is now kept in a protective blue box in New College Library, at shelfmark MS 298, is actually two manuscripts in one, plus later additions—one, written at the beginning of the 13th century which contained the Iliad, and another, written a century later with Homeric exegetical material. At some point in the 15th century, a group of—at least two—scribes decided to merge the manuscripts.

New College Library, Oxford, MS 298, f. 110r [detail]

New College Library and Archives, Oxford