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On the Track of the Books : Scribes, Libraries and Textual Transmission / ed. by Roberta Berardi, Nicoletta Bruno, Luisa Fizzarotti.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Beiträge zur Altertumskunde ; 375Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (IX, 359 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110622881
  • 9783110630169
  • 9783110632590
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 002 23
LOC classification:
  • Z4 .O57 2019
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Preface: Cupis Volitare Per Auras – Books, Libraries and Textual Transmission -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Figured Books: Horatian Book- Representations -- Horace’s Book and Sphragis. Writing Materials in Horace’s Epistles 1.20 -- Fake Intellectuals, and Books of Unquestionable Authority in Aulus Gellius’ Noctes Atticae and Lucian’s aduersus Indoctum -- Martialis Epigrammaton liber decimus: Strategies for a Second Edition -- Poetic Quotation in 4th Century BC Attic Oratory -- Jerome’s Two Libraries -- Some remarks on P. Lit. Lond. 63, a riddle epigram of an anthology? -- Textual Tradition and Reception in Theocritus -- Eratosthenes’ studia Aristophanica -- Eratosthenes’ Πλατωνικός between Philosophy and Mathematics -- Transmission of Recipes and Receptaria in Greek Medical Writings on Papyrus -- Latin Epigraphy and Literary Texts in 4th Century AD Rome -- The Scribal Habits of Codex Sangermanensis in Greek and Latin in Light of its Exemplar -- The Hypogeum of the Aurelii: a Collegiate Tomb of Professional Scribes -- The Library and the scriptorium of the Abbey of Montevergine in the 12th and 13th Century: Presences and Absences -- Apocolocyntosis, codex V and the manuscript of Hadrianus Junius -- The Textual Transmission of Ovid’s Metamorphoses during the Medieval Age: the Example of Germany -- Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Index
Summary: This book offers the hint for a new reflection on ancient textual transmission and editorial practices in Antiquity.In the first section, it retraces the first steps of the process of ancient writing and editing. The reader will discover how the book is both a material object and a metaphorical personification, material or immaterial. The second section will focus on corpora of Greek texts, their formation, and their paratextual apparatus. Readers will explore various issues dealing with the mechanisms that are at the basis of the assembling of ancient Greek texts, but great attention will also be given to the role of ancient scholarly work. The third section shows how texts have two levels of authorship: the author of the text, and the scribe who copies the text. The scribe is not a medium, but plays a crucial role in changing the text. This section will focus on the protagonists of some interesting cases of textual transmission, but also on the books they manufactured or kept in the libraries, and on the words they engraved on stones. Therefore, the fresh voices of the contributors of this book, offer new perspectives on established research fields dealing with textual criticism.
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Frontmatter -- Preface: Cupis Volitare Per Auras – Books, Libraries and Textual Transmission -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Figured Books: Horatian Book- Representations -- Horace’s Book and Sphragis. Writing Materials in Horace’s Epistles 1.20 -- Fake Intellectuals, and Books of Unquestionable Authority in Aulus Gellius’ Noctes Atticae and Lucian’s aduersus Indoctum -- Martialis Epigrammaton liber decimus: Strategies for a Second Edition -- Poetic Quotation in 4th Century BC Attic Oratory -- Jerome’s Two Libraries -- Some remarks on P. Lit. Lond. 63, a riddle epigram of an anthology? -- Textual Tradition and Reception in Theocritus -- Eratosthenes’ studia Aristophanica -- Eratosthenes’ Πλατωνικός between Philosophy and Mathematics -- Transmission of Recipes and Receptaria in Greek Medical Writings on Papyrus -- Latin Epigraphy and Literary Texts in 4th Century AD Rome -- The Scribal Habits of Codex Sangermanensis in Greek and Latin in Light of its Exemplar -- The Hypogeum of the Aurelii: a Collegiate Tomb of Professional Scribes -- The Library and the scriptorium of the Abbey of Montevergine in the 12th and 13th Century: Presences and Absences -- Apocolocyntosis, codex V and the manuscript of Hadrianus Junius -- The Textual Transmission of Ovid’s Metamorphoses during the Medieval Age: the Example of Germany -- Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Index

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This book offers the hint for a new reflection on ancient textual transmission and editorial practices in Antiquity.In the first section, it retraces the first steps of the process of ancient writing and editing. The reader will discover how the book is both a material object and a metaphorical personification, material or immaterial. The second section will focus on corpora of Greek texts, their formation, and their paratextual apparatus. Readers will explore various issues dealing with the mechanisms that are at the basis of the assembling of ancient Greek texts, but great attention will also be given to the role of ancient scholarly work. The third section shows how texts have two levels of authorship: the author of the text, and the scribe who copies the text. The scribe is not a medium, but plays a crucial role in changing the text. This section will focus on the protagonists of some interesting cases of textual transmission, but also on the books they manufactured or kept in the libraries, and on the words they engraved on stones. Therefore, the fresh voices of the contributors of this book, offer new perspectives on established research fields dealing with textual criticism.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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