The Manuscript Tradition of Propertius.

Cover -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- FREQUENTLY USED SIGLA -- PART ONE: THE TRADITION -- Introduction: The History and Present State of the Question -- Chapter 1 Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages -- Chapter 2 The A Tradition -- Chapter 3 N and the Vetustus codex of Berardino Valla -- Chapter 4 The Earlier Humanistic Tradition -- Chapter 5 g, Z, and the Delta Manuscripts -- Chapter 6 Additional M Manuscripts -- Chapter 7 A Humanistic Vulgate -- Chapter 8 Scholars' Copies -- Chapter 9 The Incunabula and Their Descendants -- Conclusion: Sample Texts -- PART TWO: THE MANUSCRIPTS -- APPENDIXES -- Appendix 1 A Renaissance Derivation of Monobyblos -- Appendix 2 Manuscripts Used by Scholars of the Nineteenth Century and Earlier -- Appendix 3 Dated and Datable Manuscripts -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Indexes -- 1 INDEX OF PROPERTIAN MANUSCRIPTS -- 2 PROPERTIAN PASSAGES DISCUSSED -- 3 INDEX OF RENAISSANCE AND MODERN SCHOLARS -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z -- 4 SCRIBES, ANNOTATORS, DECORATORS, AND OWNERS -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Z -- 5 AUTHORS AND TEXTS CONTAINED IN THE MANUSCRIPTS -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- 6 NON-PROPERTIAN MANUSCRIPTS CITED -- B -- C -- F -- G -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- T -- V -- W.

The elegist Sextus Propertius (ca 50-ca 16 BC) is generally reckoned among the most difficult of Latin authors. This study, the fullest survey of the manuscripts so far, considers the affiliation of more than 140 complete or partial witnesses and offers a thorough reassessment of the tradition.

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