The Manuscript Tradition of Propertius / / James Butrica.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Butrica, James,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©1984
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Phoenix Supplementary Volumes ; 17
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (384 p.)

The elegist Sextus Propertius (ca 50–ca 16 BC) is generally reckoned among the most difficult of Latin authors. At the root of this difficulty lies a deeply corrupt text and uncertainty over the manuscript transmission; moreover, the manuscripts used in the standard editions of today have been selected without a comprehensive examination of the surviving copies. This study, the fullest survey of the manuscripts so far, considers the affiliation of more than 140 complete or partial witnesses and offers a thorough reassessment of the tradition. The principal novelty is the argument that six Renaissance copies represent an independent third witness to the archetype, revealing passages where corruptions, glosses, or medieval corrections are now accepted as the words of Propertius and suggesting that the archetype was far more corrupt than now commonly supposed. The study is in two parts. In Part One, after a survey of Propertius’ fortuna in the Middle Ages, the author considers the affiliation and history of the known manuscripts and editions to 1502, then offers a text and revised apparatus of four elegies; in Part Two he presents detailed descriptions of 143 manuscripts, most of them from personal inspection.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Frequently Used Sigla -- Part One: The Tradition -- Introduction. The History and Present State of the Question -- Chapter 1. Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages -- Chapter 2. The A Tradition -- Chapter 3. N and the Vetustus codex of Berardino Valla -- Chapter 4. The Earlier Humanistic Tradition -- Chapter 5. g, Z, and the Delta Manuscripts -- Chapter 6. Additional M Manuscripts -- Chapter 7. A Humanistic Vulgate -- Chapter 8. Scholars' Copies -- Chapter 9. The Incunabula and Their Descendants -- Conclusion: Sample Texts -- Part Two. The Manuscripts -- The Manuscripts -- Appendix 1. A Renaissance Derivation of Monobyblos -- Appendix 2. Manuscripts Used by Scholars of the Nineteenth Century and Earlier -- Appendix 3. Dated and Datable Manuscripts -- Bibliography -- Indexes -- Backmatter