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On the track of the books : scribes, libraries and textual transmission, edited by Roberta Berardi, Nicoletta Bruno and Luisa Fizzarotti

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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
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  • eng
  • lat
  • grc
  • eng
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viii, 359 pages
Note
"The present volume is conceived as the result of a discussion began during the two-day conference (Bari, 27-28, October, 2016) organised by the cultural association Prolepsis as its first international postgraduate conference."--Preface
Contents
  • Figured books : Horatian book-representations / Stephen J. Harrison
  • Horace's book and Sphragis : writing materials in Horace's Epistles 1.20 / Georgios Taxidis
  • Fake intellectuals, and books of unquestionable authority in Aulus Gellius' Noctes Atticae and Lucian's Aduersus indoctum / Katherine Krauss
  • Martialis Epigrammaton liber decimus : strategies for a second edition / Ambra Russotti
  • Poetic quotation in 4th century BC Attic oratory / Antonio Iacoviello
  • Jerome's two libraries / Giulia Marolla
  • Some remarks on P.Lit.Lond. 63, a riddle epigram of an anthology? / Daniela Immacolata Cagnazzo
  • Textual tradition iand reception in Theocritus / Leonor Hernandez Oñate
  • Eratosthenes' Studia Aristophanica / Federica Benuzzi
  • Eratosthenes' Platonikos between philosophy and mathematics / Sara Panteri
  • Transmission of recipes and receptaria in Greek medical writings on papyrus / Nicola Reggiani
  • Latin epigraphy and literary texts in 4th century AD Rome : the case of Vttius Agorius Praetextatus / Rosa Lorito
  • The scribal habits of Codex Sangermanensis in Greek and Latin in light of its exemplar / Alan Taylor Farnes
  • The hypogeum of the Aurelii : a collegiate tomb of professional scribes / John Bradley
  • The library and the scriptorium of the Abbey of Montevergine in the 12th and 13th century : presences and absences / Veronica De Duonni
  • Apocolocyntosis, codex V and the manuscript of Hadrianus Junius / Olivia Montepaone
  • The textual transmission of Ovid's Metamorphoses during the Medieval age : the example of Germany / Cristiana Roffi
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9783110622881
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On the track of the books : scribes, libraries and textual transmission
Title
On the track of the books
Title remainder
scribes, libraries and textual transmission
Statement of responsibility
edited by Roberta Berardi, Nicoletta Bruno and Luisa Fizzarotti
Title variation
Scribes, libraries and textual transmission
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Editor
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Language
  • eng
  • lat
  • grc
  • eng
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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index present
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In English, with passages in Latin and Greek
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non fiction
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bibliography
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  • Berardi, Roberta,
  • Bruno, Nicoletta,
  • Fizzarotti, Luisa,
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Beiträge zur Altertumskunde,
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Band 375
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  • Books
  • Transmission of texts
  • Scribes
  • Manuscripts
  • Books
  • Manuscripts
  • Scribes
  • Transmission of texts
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On the track of the books : scribes, libraries and textual transmission, edited by Roberta Berardi, Nicoletta Bruno and Luisa Fizzarotti
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Note
"The present volume is conceived as the result of a discussion began during the two-day conference (Bari, 27-28, October, 2016) organised by the cultural association Prolepsis as its first international postgraduate conference."--Preface
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-338) and indexes
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volume
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text
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Contents
Figured books : Horatian book-representations / Stephen J. Harrison -- Horace's book and Sphragis : writing materials in Horace's Epistles 1.20 / Georgios Taxidis -- Fake intellectuals, and books of unquestionable authority in Aulus Gellius' Noctes Atticae and Lucian's Aduersus indoctum / Katherine Krauss -- Martialis Epigrammaton liber decimus : strategies for a second edition / Ambra Russotti -- Poetic quotation in 4th century BC Attic oratory / Antonio Iacoviello -- Jerome's two libraries / Giulia Marolla -- Some remarks on P.Lit.Lond. 63, a riddle epigram of an anthology? / Daniela Immacolata Cagnazzo -- Textual tradition iand reception in Theocritus / Leonor Hernandez Oñate -- Eratosthenes' Studia Aristophanica / Federica Benuzzi -- Eratosthenes' Platonikos between philosophy and mathematics / Sara Panteri -- Transmission of recipes and receptaria in Greek medical writings on papyrus / Nicola Reggiani -- Latin epigraphy and literary texts in 4th century AD Rome : the case of Vttius Agorius Praetextatus / Rosa Lorito -- The scribal habits of Codex Sangermanensis in Greek and Latin in light of its exemplar / Alan Taylor Farnes -- The hypogeum of the Aurelii : a collegiate tomb of professional scribes / John Bradley -- The library and the scriptorium of the Abbey of Montevergine in the 12th and 13th century : presences and absences / Veronica De Duonni -- Apocolocyntosis, codex V and the manuscript of Hadrianus Junius / Olivia Montepaone -- The textual transmission of Ovid's Metamorphoses during the Medieval age : the example of Germany / Cristiana Roffi
Control code
1050960088
Dimensions
24 cm
Extent
viii, 359 pages
Isbn
9783110622881
Lccn
2019937004
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unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations (some color)
System control number
(OCoLC)1050960088
Label
On the track of the books : scribes, libraries and textual transmission, edited by Roberta Berardi, Nicoletta Bruno and Luisa Fizzarotti
Publication
Copyright
Note
"The present volume is conceived as the result of a discussion began during the two-day conference (Bari, 27-28, October, 2016) organised by the cultural association Prolepsis as its first international postgraduate conference."--Preface
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-338) and indexes
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Figured books : Horatian book-representations / Stephen J. Harrison -- Horace's book and Sphragis : writing materials in Horace's Epistles 1.20 / Georgios Taxidis -- Fake intellectuals, and books of unquestionable authority in Aulus Gellius' Noctes Atticae and Lucian's Aduersus indoctum / Katherine Krauss -- Martialis Epigrammaton liber decimus : strategies for a second edition / Ambra Russotti -- Poetic quotation in 4th century BC Attic oratory / Antonio Iacoviello -- Jerome's two libraries / Giulia Marolla -- Some remarks on P.Lit.Lond. 63, a riddle epigram of an anthology? / Daniela Immacolata Cagnazzo -- Textual tradition iand reception in Theocritus / Leonor Hernandez Oñate -- Eratosthenes' Studia Aristophanica / Federica Benuzzi -- Eratosthenes' Platonikos between philosophy and mathematics / Sara Panteri -- Transmission of recipes and receptaria in Greek medical writings on papyrus / Nicola Reggiani -- Latin epigraphy and literary texts in 4th century AD Rome : the case of Vttius Agorius Praetextatus / Rosa Lorito -- The scribal habits of Codex Sangermanensis in Greek and Latin in light of its exemplar / Alan Taylor Farnes -- The hypogeum of the Aurelii : a collegiate tomb of professional scribes / John Bradley -- The library and the scriptorium of the Abbey of Montevergine in the 12th and 13th century : presences and absences / Veronica De Duonni -- Apocolocyntosis, codex V and the manuscript of Hadrianus Junius / Olivia Montepaone -- The textual transmission of Ovid's Metamorphoses during the Medieval age : the example of Germany / Cristiana Roffi
Control code
1050960088
Dimensions
24 cm
Extent
viii, 359 pages
Isbn
9783110622881
Lccn
2019937004
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations (some color)
System control number
(OCoLC)1050960088

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