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Studies in the transmission of latin texts : volume 1: quintus curtius rufus and dictys retensis / S. P. Oakley.
Oxford Scholarship Online: Classical Studies Available online
Oxford Scholarship Online: Classical Studies- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Oakley, S. P. (Stephen P.), author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Transmission of texts.
- Curtius Rufus, Quintus. Historia Alexandri Magni.
- Curtius Rufus, Quintus.
- Dictys, Cretensis. De bello Troiano.
- Dictys.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxviii, 505 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- New York, United States of America : Oxford University Press USA - OSO, 2020.
- Summary:
- "After a brief introduction on stemmatic method, this book contains genealogical investigations of the textual traditions of Quintus Curtius Rufus and then Dictys Cretensis. The sections on each author begin with a list of MSS and incunables that will be discussed (they number just over 150 for Curtius, about 80 for Dictys) and then a survey of existing scholarship. There then follows the classification of the MSS and incunables; most of the MSS of both authors were produced in Italy in the fifteenth-century. In the section on Curtius MSS B = Bern, Burgerbibliothek 451, Br = Brussels 10161, and A= Paris, lat. 5720, owned by Petrarch are shown to have been very productive. For Dictys it is argued that a stemma codicum can be established. First witnesses related to G = Sankt Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek 197 (these include an important lost MS of Poggio) are discussed, then those related to MS E, the codex Aesinas, owned by Stefano Guarnieri. There follows discussion of the archetype, of the way in which proper attention to the stemma codicum can improve the text, and of the excerpts from Dictys found in MSS of Dares."
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Quintus Curtius Rufus
- The Extant Manuscripts and Incunables
- The Progress of Scholarship
- Curtius in Northern Europe in the Middle Ages
- The Italian Tradition
- The Shape of the Textual Tradition of Curtius
- Consequences for Editors of Curtius
- Endnotes to Curtius
- Dictys Cretensis
- The Witnesses
- The Epistle and the Prologue
- The Codex Aesinas
- The Γ Family
- The Family of E
- Manuscripts Known Only from Catalogue Entries
- The Shape of the Tradition
- The Archetype
- Editing Dictys
- Excerpts of Dictys in Manuscripts of Dares
- Endnotes to Dictys.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-258839-7
- 0-19-188310-7
- 0-19-258838-9
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