Studies in the Transmission of Latin Texts: Volume I: Quintus Curtius Rufus and Dictys Cretensis

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This volume offers a comprehensive study of all the known manuscripts and incunables of two works: the history of Alexander the Great written by Quintus Curtius Rufus, probably in the first century AD, and the translation into Latin by Lucius Septimius of the spoof history of the Trojan War, allegedly written at the time of that war by a certain Dictys Cretensis. Drawing on in excess of 200 witnesses, the analysis reveals how the text of Curtius in all our extant manuscripts descends from one damaged copy that survived from the Roman Empire into the Middle Ages, and how the text of Dictys survived in two such copies. It demonstrates that clear and decisive results can be achieved by application of the so-called stemmatic method, and how the application of those results will lead to several improvements to our standard text of Dictys. As well as determining which manuscripts future editors should use in editing these texts and examining them in detail, it also offers equally full discussion of those which will not be needed, establishing many localizations and derivations. The result is a large body of material that will help deepen our knowledge of the transmission of classical Latin texts, especially in the Renaissance, as well as our knowledge of scribal practice and of techniques that can be deployed in the genealogical study of manuscripts and incunables. Cover Studies in the Transmission of Latin Texts Volume I: Quintus Curtius Rufus and Dictys Cretensis Copyright Dedication Preface Contents List of Figures Abbreviations Alphabetical Check-List of Sigla Quintus Curtius Rufus Dictys Cretensis 1: Introduction: Method of Investigation QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS 2: The Extant Manuscripts and Incunables 2.1. General 2.2. Manuscripts that do not consist of excerpts 2.3. Manuscripts containing excerpts 2.4. Lost or unidentified manuscripts 2.5. Incunabular editions199 2.6. Sigla 2.7. Portions collated 3: The Progress of Scholarship 4: Curtius in Northern Europe in the Middle Ages: The Primary Witnesses 4.1. General 4.2. Ω 4.3. Π 4.3.1. P and Q 4.3.2. P and δ 4.3.3. PδR 4.3.4. PδE18 4.3.5. PδJ 4.3.6. Modius’ manuscripts28 4.3.7. G43 4.3.8. H 4.3.9. The character of Δ 4.3.10. Q 4.4. Σ 4.5. D 4.6. S 4.7. The Florilegium Angelicum 5: Curtius in Northern Europe in the Middle Ages: The Family of B 5.1. BMKRoVnPdCVrPmBa; WbPb 5.2. M and its northern descendants 5.3. WbPb 5.4. PcBr 5.5. Du 5.6. Oc 6: The Italian Tradition: The Family of Br 6.1. General 6.2. Br and A 6.3. A, Petrarch, and Br’s family: the problem 6.4. α 6.4.1. Contaminated descendants of α 6.4.2. α and the δ MSS 6.5. Other descendants of Br 6.5.1. β 6.5.2. Lv[Ch] 6.5.3. WaRcTr 6.5.4. Sd 6.5.5. Fc 6.5.6. Bu[LePh]PaVg 6.5.7. Gd[WiTu] 6.5.8. WnWmHhDm 7: The Italian Tradition: Descendants of Q 8: The Italian Tradition: δ 8.1. General 8.2. The errors of δ 8.3. δ(a) 8.4. δ(b) 8.4.1. δ(b)(i) 8.4.2. Pg and its descendants 8.5. δ(a), δ(b)(i), and the family of Pg in book 10 8.6. δ(c) 8.6.1. Introduction 8.6.2. Conjunctive errors of δ(c)(i) and (ii) 8.6.3. The allegiances of δ(c)(i) and (ii) after 9.5.4–8 8.6.4. δ(c)(i) 8.6.5. δ(c)(ii) 8.7. δ(d) 8.8. δ(c) and (d) and α in 3.1–4.2 8.9. δ(c) in books 5 and 6 8.10. Vx and Wk 8.11. The origin of δ 9: The Italian Tradition: Descendants of C 9.1. Introduction 9.2. The beginning of the text 9.3. The middle of the text 9.4. The end of the text 10: The Italian Tradition: The Edition of Vindelinus de Spira and its Progeny 11: The Shape of the Textual Tradition of Curtius 11.1. The extant manuscripts in overview 11.2. Curtius in medieval lists and catalogues 11.3. Curtius and medieval authors 12: Consequences for Editors of Curtius 13: Endnotes to Curtius 13.1. Lost or unidentified manuscripts 13.2. The poem Armipotentis Alexandri 13.3. Interpolations from Justin DICTYS CRETENSIS 14: The Witnesses 14.1. Extant manuscripts 14.2. Lost manuscript 14.3. Paraphrase 14.4. Excerpts not found at end of text of Dares 14.5. Quotations 14.6. Incunabular editions 14.7. Sigla 14.8. Portions collated 15: The Progress of Scholarship 16: The Epistle and the Prologue 17: The Codex Aesinas 18: The Γ Family 18.1. The wider family 18.2. G, its descendants, and close relatives 18.2.1. Defining the family 18.2.2. LyLhMHhJVjVfVrDuMc 18.2.3. aADaZ 18.3. β 18.3.1. Defining the family 18.3.2. σ 18.3.3. R 18.3.4. B 18.3.5. Lo[Kr]PPdKPb[PrMoBgSc] 18.3.6. Sv[Vh] 18.3.7. Lq 18.3.8. Rawlinson B 214 18.4. Hy 19: The Family of E 19.1. Earlier treatments 19.2. E’s uncorrected errors 19.3. Θ 19.3.1. Defining Θ 19.3.2. U[Li] 19.3.3. Q 19.3.4. Pn[Ho] 19.3.5. BrVb, deL[TnVdVcFnVgFrFmFlBe] 19.3.6. χ 19.3.7. Sd 19.3.8. Vk 19.3.9. F 19.3.10. PgVv[DhaTo; Vr] 19.3.11. Possible subgroupings below Θ 19.4. N and its descendants 19.5. Ec and the descendants of E 19.6. D[HaTo] 19.7. Vo 19.8. The family of E at the end of the text 19.9. The family of E at the beginning of the text 20: Manuscripts Known Only from Catalogue Entries 21: The Shape of the Tradition: Dictys in the Middle Ages 22: The Archetype 23: Editing Dictys 24: Excerpts of Dictys in Manuscripts of Dares 25: Endnotes to Dictys 25.1. Enoch of Ascoli and the codex Aesinas 25.2. The opening of the epistle 25.3. The family of G/Ga in Dares 25.4. Spectare and exspectare in Dictys Works Cited I. Index II. Manuscripts and Incunabular Editions III. Passages Discussed IV. Latin