A textual history of Cicero's Academici libri / / by Terence J. Hunt.

• Superior document: Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum, 181
• Author: Hunt, Terence J.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 1998.
• Year of Publication: 1998
• Language: English; Latin
• Series: Mnemosyne, Supplements 181.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xv, 341 pages, 4 pages of plates) :; illustrations.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Plates /; Introduction /; The Problems /; Who Read the Academici Libri? /; The Evidence for Two Families /; Δ - The French Tradition /; Γ - The Italian Tradition /; The Archetype /; The Deteriores /; The Printed Editions /; Summary and Conclusions /; Lost Manuscripts /; A List of Printed Editions /; Bibliography /; Index Locorum /; Index Auctorum /; Index Codicum /; Index Nominum /; Supplements to Mnemosyne /; Academica.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-305) and indexes.
• ISBN: 9004351493
• ISSN: 0169-8958
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: by Terence J. Hunt.

This book addresses the problems surrounding Cicero's Academici Libri , including why the work exists in two different editions, why and when the work became fragmentary, and how it managed to survive. It achieves this by tracing the history and influence of the work from Antiquity to the present day. The main part of the book studies the manuscript tradition of the work. All extant manuscripts are fully described and their textual relationships are established. Historical information is assessed in order to show the part which manuscripts played in intellectual life, conclusions are reached on the archetype of the work and a full stemma of the tradition is built. The book contains a wealth of bibliographical information and will serve as a base for further study in the transmission of Cicero's works.