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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.

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Author:   S. P. Oakley (University of Cambridge, University of Cambridge, Kennedy Professor of Latin)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.868kg
ISBN:  

9780198848738

ISBN 10:   0198848730
Pages:   448
Publication Date:   02 June 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

VITRUVIUS 1: Introduction 2: The witnesses 3: The progress of scholarship 4: Ω: the archetype 5: H and α 6: The Γ Family 7: The β Family 8: Hybrid witnesses 9: Catalogue entries 10: The transmission in outline 11: Conclusions 12: End-Note: some manuscripts of Faventinus CATO, DE AGRI CVLTVRA AND VARRO, DE RE RVSTICA 13: Introduction 14: The extant witnesses 15: The progress of scholarship 16: Ω: the archetype 17: The classification of the extant witnesses 18: Problematic or otherwise interesting passages 19: Conclusions PORPHYRIO 20: The excerpting of Porphyrio s commentary on Horace 21: The extant witnesses 22: Editing the abbreviated commentary: the progress of scholarship 23: Porphyrio in the Middle Ages 24: Enoch of Ascoli and Porphyrio 25: V and M, and the recentiores 26: The localization of V and M and the transmission of Porphyrio in the Middle Ages 27: The diffusion of the text in the Renaissance 28: Conclusions PRISCIAN, PERIEGESIS 29: Introduction 30: The manuscripts 31: The progress of scholarship 32: The γ Family 33: The δ Family 34: The ε Family 35: Manuscripts that are contaminated or are otherwise difficult to place 36: The early history of the text 37: Conclusions

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Stephen Oakley, FBA, was born in Dorset and educated at Queens' College, Cambridge, where he studied for the Classical Tripos and for his Ph.D. He has since taught at Emmanuel College, Cambridge and the University of Reading, and is currently Kennedy Professor of Latin in the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Emmanuel College.

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