Cicero's Brutus : Edition, Textual Commentary, and Study of the Transmission / Douglas R. Thomas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thomas, Douglas R., author.

Series:

Oxford classical monographs.

Oxford Classical Monographs

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criticism, Textual.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (368 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, [2024]

Summary:

This new edition of Cicero's Brutus by Douglas R. Thomas presents the first comprehensive study of the transmission of the text drawing on detailed stemmatic research, a new critical edition of the Latin text, and a textual commentary which discusses a range of significant textual problems.

Contents:

Cover

Cicero's Brutus: Edition, Textual Commentary, and Study of the Transmission

Copyright

Acknowledgements

Contents

List of Figures

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

1. Review of Scholarship

1.1 Textual Criticism

1.2 The Transmission of Brutus

2. The Stemmatic Method

3. Text and Apparatus: A Guide

Part One: The Transmission of Brutus

1: The Cremona Fragment

1.1 C and the Humanist Descriptions of L

1.2 Malcovati's Argument: C ≠ L

1.3 C = L

1.4 Concluding Remarks

1.5 Collation of C

2: A New Stemma

2.1 Coda: A Contaminated Descendant of β

2.2 Readings of Ov

3: A Textual History of Cicero's Brutus

3.1 Brutus Before 1421

3.2 The Discovery of the Laudensis

3.3 The Laudensis after Its Rediscovery

3.4 Raimondi's Transcription and Barzizza's Manuscript

3.5 The Descendants of ρ

3.6 The Descendants of B

3.7 The Descendants of F

3.8 The Descendants of λ

Part Two: Text and Commentary

Sigla

M. Tulli Ciceronis: Brutus

Commentary

Appendix 1: The Manuscripts and Fifteenth-Century Editions of Brutus

1.1 Extant Manuscripts

1.2 Missing Manuscripts

1.3 Manuscripts with Excerpts

1.4 Fifteenth-CenturyPrinted Editions

1.5 Hypothesized Manuscripts

Appendix 2: The Descendants of ρ and B

1. The Descendants of O

2. The Descendants of B

3. The Descendants of G

3.1 The Descendants of δ

3.2 The Descendants of ε

3.3 The Descendants of ζ

3.4 Fk, Pa, and Vv

4. The Descendants of X

5. The Contaminated Descendants of γ

6. A Descendant of Ho

7 The Editio Princeps (Rom)

8. Subsequent Printed Editions

Appendix 3: The Descendants of F

1 The Descendants of Vm

2 The Descendants of κ

3 The Descendants of ξ

4 The Descendants of Vq

5 The Descendants of π

5.1 The Descendants of σ

5.2 The Descendants of υ.

5.3 The Descendants of Ff

5.4 The Descendants of χ

6 Other Descendants of F

Appendix 4: Alphabetical List of Sigla

Bibliography

Brutus: Editions, Translations, and Commentaries

General Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-19-199204-6

0-19-888403-6