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Scribes and Scholars A Guide to the Transmission of Greek and Latin Literature

by: Reynolds, L. D.; Wilson, N. G.

Scribes and Scholars A Guide to the Transmission of Greek and Latin Literature

by: Reynolds, L. D.; Wilson, N. G.

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0198721463
Edition: 3rd
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 05/09/1991
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary

The third edition of Scribes and Scholars takes into account the numerous discoveries in this rapidly-advancing field of knowledge by offering substantial revisions and additions. A note on how to interpret the information given in an apparatus criticus is also included.

Antiquity

(43)

Ancient books

The library of the Museum and Hellenistic scholarship

Other Hellenistic work

Books and scholarship in the Roman Republic

Developments under the early Empire

Archaism in the second century

The compendium and the commentary

From roll to codex

Paganism and Christianity in the fourth century in the Western Empire

The subscriptions

The Greek East

(35)

Scholarship and literature under the Roman Empire

The Christian Church and classical studies

The early Byzantine period

Greek texts in the Orient

The Renaissance of the ninth century

The later Byzantine period

The Latin West

(43)

The Dark Ages

Ireland and England

The Anglo-Saxon missionaries

Insular influence on classical texts

The Carolingian revival

The development of Caroline minuscule

Carolingian libraries and the Latin classics

Carolingian scholarship

The Carolingian twilight

The resurgence of Montecassino

The twelfth-century Renaissance

The Scholastic Age

Greek in the West in the Middle Ages

The Renaissance

122

(42)

Humanism

The first humanists

The consolidation of humanism: Petrarch and his generation

Coluccio Salutati (1331--1406)

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

Latin scholarship in the fifteenth century: Valla and Politian

Greek studies: diplomats, refugees and book collectors

Greek scholarship in the fifteenth century: Bessarion and Politian

The first printed Greek texts: Aldus Manutius and Marcus Musurus

Erasmus (c. 1469--1536)

Some Aspects of Scholarship Since the Renaissance

164

(43)

The Counter-Reformation; the High Renaissance in Italy

The beginnings of humanism and scholarship in France

The Netherlands in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries

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

The origins of palaeography

Discoveries of texts since the Renaissance

Palimpsests

Papyri

Other manuscript discoveries

Epigraphic texts

Epilogue

Textual Criticism

207

(35)

Introductory

The development of the theory of textual criticism

The stemmatic theory of recension

Limitations of the stemmatic method

Age and merit in individual manuscripts

Indirect tradition

Some other basic principles

Corruptions

Fluid forms of transmission: technical and popular literature

Conventions in the apparatus criticus

Conclusion

Abbreviations

242

(2)

Notes

244

(51)

Index of MSS.

295

(8)

General Index

303

(14)

Notes to the Plates

317

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