This essay follows one itinerary of Hannibal from Ab urbe condita through medieval manuscript culture. That itinerary, and one manuscript miniature in particular, can in fact exemplify both instability and stability, changes and continuities, variance and constancy. Hence the ways in which this discussion draws from studies in both material philology and in the classical tradition, a synthesis not unlike that represented in and by one manuscript’s strange yet familiar image (Cambridge, MA, Houghton Library, MS Richardson 32, vol. 2, f. 55).