Studies in the Transmission of Latin Texts
Volume II: Vitruvius, Cato, De agricultura and Varro, De re rustica, Porphyrio, and Priscian, Periegesis
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 2 June 2023
- ISBN 9780198848738
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages448 pages
- Size 240x155x25 mm
- Weight 868 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 51 black-and-white illustrations 517
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Short description:
This volumes offers a study of all known manuscripts and incunabular editions of four classical texts: Vitruvius' De architectura, Cato's De agri cultura, Varro's De re rustica, Porphyrio's Commentary on Horace, and Priscian's Periegesis.
MoreLong description:
This volumes offers a study of all known manuscripts and incunabular editions of four classical texts: Vitruvius' De architectura, Cato's De agri cultura, Varro's De re rustica, Porphyrio's Commentary on Horace, and Priscian's Periegesis. The total number of witnesses involved comes to over 200; many of the manuscripts were produced in France or Italy, but English, German, Polish, and Swiss manuscripts also feature. For each text, the genealogical affiliations of its manuscript copies are determined (in many cases for the first time), as is the manner in which each was dispersed throughout medieval Europe and transmitted from antiquity through the Middle Ages to the first printed editions. S. P. Oakley shows that clear and decisive results can be achieved by application of the so-called stemmatic method and establishes which manuscripts future editors should use in editing these texts. Manuscripts that are not needed by future editors are discussed as fully as those that are, and many localizations and derivations are established. The result is a detailed study that deepens knowledge of the transmission of classical Latin texts, especially in the Renaissance, of scribal practice, and of techniques that can be deployed in the genealogical study of manuscripts and incunables.
In meticulous analyses and close work with manuscripts and incunables, Oakley traces the transmission of these texts and the genealogical relationships of individual (groups of) manuscripts as well as the progress of the scholarship on their transmission. The book is nicely illustrated by fifty-one images of some of the key manuscripts, and Oakley provides information of howto access these and others online as well.
Table of Contents:
VITRUVIUS
Introduction
The witnesses
The progress of scholarship
?: the archetype
H and ?
The ? Family
The ? Family
Hybrid witnesses
Catalogue entries
The transmission in outline
Conclusions
End-Note: some manuscripts of Faventinus
CATO, DE AGRI CVLTVRA AND VARRO, DE RE RVSTICA
Introduction
The extant witnesses
The progress of scholarship
?: the archetype
The classification of the extant witnesses
Problematic or otherwise interesting passages
Conclusions
PORPHYRIO
The excerpting of Porphyrio s commentary on Horace
The extant witnesses
Editing the abbreviated commentary: the progress of scholarship
Porphyrio in the Middle Ages
Enoch of Ascoli and Porphyrio
V and M, and the recentiores
The localization of V and M and the transmission of Porphyrio in the Middle Ages
The diffusion of the text in the Renaissance
Conclusions
PRISCIAN, PERIEGESIS
Introduction
The manuscripts
The progress of scholarship
The ? Family
The ? Family
The ? Family
Manuscripts that are contaminated or are otherwise difficult to place
The early history of the text
Conclusions
