Scribes and scholars : a guide to the transmission of Greek and Latin literature / by L.D. Reynolds, fellow and tutor of Brasenose College, Oxford and N.G. Wilson, Fellow and tutor of Lincoln College, Oxford.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reynolds, L. D. (Leighton Durham), author.

Wilson, N. G. (Nigel Guy), 1935- author.

Contributor:

Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Learning and scholarship--History.

Learning and scholarship.

History.

Transmission of texts.

Classical literature--Criticism, Textual.

Classical literature.

Criticism, Textual.

Classical literature--Manuscripts.

Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Manuscripts, Medieval.

Scriptoria.

Physical Description:

ix, 364 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

Fourth edition.

Other Title:

Scribes & scholars

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.

Contents:

1 Antiquity 1

i Ancient books

ii The library of the Museum and Hellenistic scholarship

iii Other Hellenistic work

iv Books and scholarship in the Roman Republic

v Developments under the early Empire

vi Archaism in the second century

vii The compendium and the commentary

viii From roll to codex

ix Paganism and Christianity in the fourth century in the Western Empire

x The subscriptions 2 The Greek East 44

i Scholarship and literature under the Roman Empire

ii The Christian Church and classical studies

iii The early Byzantine period

iv Greek texts in the Orient

v The Renaissance of the ninth century

vi The later Byzantine period

3 The Latin West 80

i The Dark Ages

ii Ireland and England

iii The Anglo-Saxon missionaries

vi Insular influence on classical texts

v The Carolingian revival

vi The development of Caroline minuscule

vii Carolingian libraries and the Latin classics

viii Carolingian scholarship

ix The Carolingian twilight

x The resurgence of Montecassino

xi The twelfth-century Renaissance

xii The Scholastic Age

xiii Greek in the West in the Middle Ages

4 The Renaissance 123

i Humanism

ii The first humanists

iii The consolidation of humanism: Petrarch and his generation

iv Coluccio Salutati (1331-1406)

v The great age of discovery: Poggio (1380-1459)

vi Latin scholarship in the fifteenth century: Valla and Politian

vii Greek studies: diplomats, refugees and book collectors

viii Greek scholarship in the fifteenth century: Bessarion and Politian

ix The first printed Greek texts: Aldus Manutius and Marcus Musurus

x Erasmus (c. 1469-1536)

5 Some Aspects of Scholarship since the Renaissance 165

i The Counter-Reformation; the High Renaissance in Italy

ii The beginnings of humanism and scholarship in France

iii The Netherlands in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries

iv Richard Bentley (1662-1742): classical and theological studies

v The origins of paleography

vi Discoveries of texts since the Renaissance

(a) Palimpsests

(b) Papyri

(c) Other manuscript discoveries

(d) Epigraphic texts

vii Epilogue

6 Textual Criticism 208

i Introductory

ii The development of the theory of textual criticism

iii The stemmatic theory of recension

iv Limitations of the stemmatic method

v Age and merit in individual manuscripts

vi Indirect tradition

vii Some other basic principles

viii Corruptions

ix Fluid forms of transmission: technical and popular literature

x Conventions in the apparatus criticus

xi Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

ISBN:

0199686335

9780199686339

0199686327

9780199686322

OCLC:

865169242