The Manuscript Tradition of Propertius / / James Butrica.

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 selec...

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