On the Track of the Books Scribes, Libraries and Textual Transmission Roberta Berardi, Nicoletta Bruno, Luisa Fizzarotti.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Berardi, Roberta, Editor.

Bruno, Nicoletta, Editor.

Fizzarotti, Luisa, Editor.

Series:

Beiträge zur Altertumskunde ; 375

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Books--History.

Books.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (370 pages).

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This book offers the hint for a new reflection on ancient textual transmission and editorial practices in Antiquity.In the first section, it retraces the first steps of the process of ancient writing and editing. The reader will discover how the book is both a material object and a metaphorical personification, material or immaterial. The second section will focus on corpora of Greek texts, their formation, and their paratextual apparatus. Readers will explore various issues dealing with the mechanisms that are at the basis of the assembling of ancient Greek texts, but great attention will also be given to the role of ancient scholarly work. The third section shows how texts have two levels of authorship: the author of the text, and the scribe who copies the text. The scribe is not a medium, but plays a crucial role in changing the text. This section will focus on the protagonists of some interesting cases of textual transmission, but also on the books they manufactured or kept in the libraries, and on the words they engraved on stones. Therefore, the fresh voices of the contributors of this book, offer new perspectives on established research fields dealing with textual criticism.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface: Cupis Volitare Per Auras - Books, Libraries and Textual Transmission

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Figured Books: Horatian Book- Representations

Horace's Book and Sphragis. Writing Materials in Horace's Epistles 1.20

Fake Intellectuals, and Books of Unquestionable Authority in Aulus Gellius' Noctes Atticae and Lucian's aduersus Indoctum

Martialis Epigrammaton liber decimus: Strategies for a Second Edition

Poetic Quotation in 4th Century BC Attic Oratory

Jerome's Two Libraries

Some remarks on P. Lit. Lond. 63, a riddle epigram of an anthology?

Textual Tradition and Reception in Theocritus

Eratosthenes' studia Aristophanica

Eratosthenes' Πλατωνικός between Philosophy and Mathematics

Transmission of Recipes and Receptaria in Greek Medical Writings on Papyrus

Latin Epigraphy and Literary Texts in 4th Century AD Rome

The Scribal Habits of Codex Sangermanensis in Greek and Latin in Light of its Exemplar

The Hypogeum of the Aurelii: a Collegiate Tomb of Professional Scribes

The Library and the scriptorium of the Abbey of Montevergine in the 12th and 13th Century: Presences and Absences

Apocolocyntosis, codex V and the manuscript of Hadrianus Junius

The Textual Transmission of Ovid's Metamorphoses during the Medieval Age: the Example of Germany

Bibliography

List of Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9783110632590

3110632594

9783110630169

3110630168

OCLC:

1104713213