Isbn: 9780198721468 - scribes and scholars: a guide to the transmission of greek & latin literature: third edition: a guide to the transmission of greek and latin literature (6 Ergebnisse)

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Soft cover. Zustand: As New. 8vo (20.5 cm), ix, 321 pp., 16 plates. Publisher's laminated wrappers (minor shelf wear). Third edition of the standard English-language introduction to the transmission of classical literature from antiquity to the modern era, widely regarded as one of the most influential surveys of the manuscript tradition of Greek and Latin texts. First published in 1968 and extensively revised for this third edition, the work traces the survival of classical learning through the changing institutions, technologies, and scholarly practices that preserved ancient texts across more than two millennia. The opening chapters examine book production and scholarship in the ancient world, including the Library of Alexandria, Hellenistic textual criticism, Roman literary culture, the transition from roll to codex, and the impact of Christianization on the survival of pagan literature. Subsequent chapters follow the fortunes of classical texts in the Byzantine East and the medieval Latin West, treating such subjects as the ninth-century Byzantine renaissance, the role of Ireland and Anglo-Saxon England in preserving learning, the Carolingian revival and the development of Caroline minuscule, medieval monastic libraries, Montecassino, the twelfth-century renaissance, scholastic scholarship, and the transmission of Greek learning to Western Europe. The Renaissance section surveys the recovery of classical texts by the Italian humanists, including Petrarch, Salutati, Poggio Bracciolini, Lorenzo Valla, Politian, Cardinal Bessarion, and Erasmus, as well as the emergence of Greek printing under Aldus Manutius and Marcus Musurus. The later chapters extend the narrative through early modern and modern scholarship, discussing the development of textual criticism, palaeography, manuscript collecting, the discovery of palimpsests and papyri, and the work of major scholars such as Richard Bentley. Particularly valuable is the substantial final chapter on textual criticism, which provides a clear exposition of stemmatic theory, recension, manuscript relationships, indirect textual transmission, common forms of scribal corruption, and the interpretation of the critical apparatus found in scholarly editions. Supplemented by extensive bibliographical notes, an index of manuscripts, a general index, and plates illustrating important manuscripts discussed in the text, the volume remains an indispensable guide for students and scholars of classics, palaeography, codicology, manuscript studies, and the history of scholarship.…

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Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 3rd edition. 352 pages. 8.25x5.25x1.00 inches. In Stock.

orig.wrappers. 3rd Edition. 22x14cm, ix,321,(16)pp., PAPERBACK. Some pencilled underlinings & notes to the first 30 pages. Good. 16pp facsimile plates. (illustrator).