The Early Textual History of Lucretius' De rerum natura
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- Author: David Butterfield, University of Cambridge
- Date Published: January 2019
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108730235
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This is the first detailed analysis of the fate of Lucretius' De rerum natura from its composition in the 50s BC to the creation of our earliest extant manuscripts during the Carolingian Age. Close investigation of the knowledge of Lucretius' poem among writers throughout the Roman and medieval world allows fresh insight into the work's readership and reception, and a clear assessment of the indirect tradition's value for editing the poem. The first extended analysis of the 170+ subject headings (capitula) that intersperse the text reveals the close engagement of its Roman readers. A fresh inspection and assignation of marginal hands in the poem's most important manuscript (the Oblongus) provides new evidence about the work of Carolingian correctors and offers the basis for a new Lucretian stemma codicum. Further clarification of the interrelationship of Lucretius' Renaissance manuscripts gives additional evidence of the poem's reception and circulation in fifteenth-century Italy.
Read more- The first critical survey of the first thousand years in the transmission of a truly unique work in ancient literature
- Provides a new and detailed analysis of the various correcting hands in the most important Lucretian manuscript, thereby allowing for the construction of a new stemma codicum on which future critical editions of the poem should be based
- Presents new evidence on the rediscovery and circulation of Lucretius in Renaissance Italy
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- Date Published: January 2019
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108730235
- length: 362 pages
- dimensions: 215 x 140 x 25 mm
- weight: 0.65kg
- contains: 12 b/w illus. 8 colour illus. 10 tables
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
1. A sketch of the extant Lucretian manuscripts
2. The indirect tradition of Lucretius
3. The capitula of DRN
4. The correcting hands of O
5. The marginal annotations of Q1
Conclusion
Appendix 1. Capitula Lucretiana
Appendix 2. Apparatus fontium Lucreti (ante a.d. millesimum)
Appendix 3. The corrections and annotations of O
Appendix 4. The foliation of the Lucretian archetype
Appendix 5. The fate of OQS in the early modern period.-
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