Classica et Beneventana: Essays Presented to Virginia Brown on the Occasion of her 65th Birthday

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The Festschrift volume Classica et Beneventana, presented to Virginia Brown on the occasion of her 65th birthday, brings together eighteen insightful new essays by leading scholars devoted to the fields of classical reception and Latin palaeography. The authors investigate a wide-range of topics such as the development and application of the Beneventan script, comparative codicology, use of early liturgical manuscripts, medieval artes and biblical texts and their readers, and the reception and dissemination of classical texts during the Italian Renaissance. Since 1970, Virginia Brown has been a Senior Research Fellow at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies. She is recognized as one of the world’s leading authorities in classical reception and Latin palaeography. Her numerous publications on the Beneventan script have dramatically altered our knowledge of the dissemination of this southern Italian book hand from 800 to 1600. Her editorial work for the Catalogus translationum et commentariorum, as a member of the Editorial Board and since 1986 as Editor-in-Chief, has resulted in several learned volumes tracing the fortuna and study of classical authors from antiquity to the year 1600. As editor of Mediaeval Studies from 1975 to 1988, she single-handedly produced tomes noted for their scholarly rigor and acumen. This collection of essays serves as fitting tribute to a scholar who, via her scholarly research and editorial work, has done so much to advance the fields of palaeography, codicology, and the history of classical scholarship. Front matter (“Table of contents”, “Tabula gratulatoria”, “Introduction”, “Bibliography of Virgina Brown”), p. i Free Access Sul frammento dei Getica di Giordano conservato a Losanna, p. 1 Sandro Bertelli https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.3.2214 Prouerbia Salomonis: An Anonymous Accretion to Peter Riga’s Aurora, p. 9 Greti Dinkova-Bruun https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.3.2215 Apuleius in Florence from Boccaccio to Lorenzo de’ Medici, p. 45 Julia Haig Gaisser https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.3.2216 La survie de quelques auteurs classiques dans les collections de textes philosophiques du moyen âge, p. 73 Jacqueline Hamesse https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.3.2217 Notes on the Composition and Textual Tradition of Leonardo Bruni’s Historiarum Florentini populi libri XII, p. 87 James Hankins https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.3.2218 New York Academy of Medicine MS 1 and the Textual Tradition of Apicius, p. 111 Hope Mayo https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.3.2219 Presenze dimenticate (III), p. 137 Luisa Miglio, Marco Palma https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.3.2220 The Fortuna of Leontius Pilatus’s Homer: With an Edition of Pier Candido Decembrio’s «Why Homer’s Greek Verses are Rendered in Latin Prose», p. 149 Marianne Pade https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.3.2221 Early Comparative Codicology: Late-Medieval Western Perceptions of Non-Western Script and Book Materials, p. 173 Randall Rosenfeld https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.3.2222 A Medieval Rhetorical Manual in the 17th Century: The Case of Christian Daum and the Poetria nova, p. 201 Marjorie Curry Woods https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.3.2223 I codici donati dal vescovo Guglielmo II alla cattedrale di Troia. L’elenco del ms. VI B 12 della Biblioteca Nazionale di Napoli, p. 213 Gabriella Braga https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.3.2224 Nel raggio di Montecassino. Il libellus precum di S. Domenico di Sora (Vat. Reg. lat. 334), p. 235 Mariano Dell’Omo https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.3.2225 From Beneventan to Gothic: Continuity and Change in Southern Italian Liturgical Ceremonies, p. 293 Richard F. Gyug https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.3.2226 The Scribal Record of Prayer and Work in the Chapter Room, p. 311 Charles Hilken https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.3.2227 L’inventario Rotondo (=ms. Benev. 455B) della Biblioteca capitolare di Benevento, p. 333 Mario Iadanza https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.3.2228 A Beneventan Notated Breviary in Naples (Archivio storico diocesano, fondo Ebdomadari, Cod. Misc. 1, fasc. VII), p. 363 Thomas Forrest Kelly https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.3.2229 The Mass for the Octave of the Epiphany in Some Beneventan Manuscripts, p. 391 Luisa Nardini https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.3.2230 Montecassino Cod. 125 and Henry, p. 407 Roger E. Reynolds https://doi.org/10.1484/M.TEMA-EB.3.2231 Back matter (“Index of manuscripts”, “Pre-modern persons”, “Modern persons”), p. 425