Studies in the Transmission of Latin Texts

by S. P. Oakley

• ISBN13: 9780192588388
• ISBN10: 0192588389
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2020-07-24
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Academic UK

Author Biography

S. P. Oakley, Kennedy Professor of Latin, University of Cambridge; Fellow of Emmanuel College

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.

Table of Contents

Alphabetical Check-List of Sigla
1. Introduction: Method of Investigation
QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS
2. The Extant Manuscripts and Incunables
2.1. General
2.2. Manuscripts that do not consist of excerpts
2.3. Manuscripts containing excerpts
2.4. Lost or unidentified manuscripts
2.5. Incunabular editions
2.6. Sigla
2.7. Portions collated
3. The Progress of Scholarship
4. Curtius in Northern Europe in the Middle Ages: The Primary Witnesses
4.1. General
4.2. *W
4.3. *P
4.4. *S
4.5. D
4.6. S
4.7. The Florilegium Angelicum
5. Curtius in Northern Europe in the Middle Ages: The Family of B
6. The Italian Tradition: Br's Family
6.1. General
6.2. Br and A
6.3. A, Petrarch, and Br s family: the problem
6.4. *a
6.5. Other descendants of Br
7. The Italian Tradition: Descendants of Q
8. The Italian Tradition: *d
8.1. General
8.2. The errors of *d
8.3. *d(a)
8.4. *d(b)
8.5. *d(a), *d(b)(i), and the family of Pg in book 10
8.6. *d(c)
8.7. *d(d)
8.8. *d(c) and (d) and *a in 3.1 4.2
8.9. *d(c) in books 5 and 6
8.10. Vx and Wk
8.11. The origin of *d
9. The Italian Tradition: Descendants of C
9.1. Introduction
9.2. The beginning of the text
9.3. The middle of the text
9.4. The end of the text
10. The Italian Tradition: The Edition of Vindelinus de Spira and its Progeny
11. The Shape of the Textual Tradition of Curtius
11.1. The extant manuscripts in overview
11.2. Curtius in mediaeval lists and catalogues
11.3. Curtius and mediaeval authors
12. Consequences for Editors of Curtius
13. End-Notes to Curtius
13.1. Lost or unidentified manuscripts
13.2. The poem Armipotentis Alexandri
13.3. Interpolations from Justin
DICTYS CRETENSIS
14. The Witnesses
14.1. Extant manuscripts
14.2. Lost manuscript
14.3. Paraphrase
14.4. Excerpts not found at end of text of Dares
14.5. Quotations
14.6. Incunabular editions
14.7. Sigla
14.8. Portions collated
15. The Progress of Scholarship
16. The Epistle and the Prologue
17. The Codex Aesinas
18. The Family *G
18.1. The wider family
18.2. G, its descendants, and close relatives
18.3. *b
18.4. Hy
19. The Family of E
19.1. Earlier treatments
19.2. E's uncorrected errors
19.3. *C
19.4. N and its descendants
19.5. Ec and the descendants of E
19.6. D[HaTo]
19.7. Vo
19.8. The family of E at the end of the text
19.9. The family of E at the beginning of the text
20. Manuscripts Known Only from Catalogue Entries
21. The Shape of the Tradition: Dictys in the Middle Ages
22. The Archetype
23. Editing Dictys
24. Excerpts of Dictys in Manuscripts of Dares
25. End-Notes to Dictys
25.1. Enoch of Ascoli and the codex Aesinas
25.2. The opening of the epistle
25.3. The family of G/Ga in Dares