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Michael D. Reeve, Manuscripts and Methods. Essays on Editing and Transmission, Rome, 2011.

Éditeur : Edizioni di storia e letteratura
Collection : Storia e letteratura, 270
xviii-434 pages
ISBN : 9788863723021
62,00 €

Michael Reeve's work since the mid 1970s on the textual traditions of classical authors has brought him into the forefront of debate on editorial aims and methods. From the outset he has championed both stemmatic method and historical approaches to manuscripts. He assembles here 18 articles, published from 1983 to 2009, in which he deals not so much with particular traditions as with methodological questions; two unpublished pieces are added. The collection ranges from the identification and status of autographs to the use of computer programmes for classifying witnesses; it includes comparative studies of genealogical classification in textual scholarship, historical linguistics, biology, and the analysis of ‘folk tales'.

Table of contents:
Introduction
I. The Original
1. Errori in autografi
II. Stemmatic Method
2. Stemmatic method: «qualcosa che non funziona»?
3. Da Madvig a Maas, con deviazioni
4. Shared innovations, dichotomies, and evolution
III. Archetypes
5. Archetypes
6. Reconstructing archetypes: a new proposal and an old fallacy
IV. Exemplar and Copy
7. Misunderstanding marginalia
8. Eliminatio codicum descriptorum: a methodological problem
9. Manuscripts copied from printed books
10. A proposal about Modestus, scriptor rei militaris
V. History and Geography
11. A man on a horse
12. Some applications of Pasquali's «criterio geografico» to 15th-century latin manuscripts
13. The rediscovery of classical texts in the Renaissance
14. Classical scholarship in the Renaissance
VI. Episodes in Editing
15. Inspecting the foundations: reflections on Lupus's edition of Livy I-X
16. John Wallis, editor of greek mathematical texts
17. Gruppenarbeit an Handschriften
18. Dust and fudge: manuscripts in Housman's generation
19. Cuius in usum? Recent and future editing
20. Editing classical texts with a computer: Hyginus's Astronomica
Indexes.

Michael D. Reeve, a Fellow of the British Academy, was a tutorial fellow of Exeter College Oxford 1966-1984 and Kennedy Professor of Latin at Cambridge 1984-2006. He has published many articles and reviews on the transmission of classical texts and edited Longus's novel Daphnis & Chloe (1982), Cicero's speech Pro Quinctio (1992), Vegetius's tract on warfare (2004), and Geoffrey of Monmouth's imaginative history of Britain (2007).

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