Certain Sources of Corruption, in Latin Manuscripts: A Study Based Upon Two Manuscripts of Livy: Codex Puteanus (Fifth Century), and Its Copy, Codex ... of the Graduate School of Arts and Liter - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 1332006361 ISBN 13: 9781332006366

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Excerpt from Certain Sources of Corruption, in Latin Manuscripts: A Study Based Upon Two Manuscripts of Livy: Codex Puteanus (Fifth Century), And Its Copy, Codex Reginensis 762 (Ninth Century), A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Arts and Literature of the University of Chicago, for the Degree Of

This tendency to place textual criticism more nearly upon a palaeographical basis has not been accompanied by a corre sponding change in the character of the illustrative material used in books and manuals upon the subject. The collections of examples now placed before the student are not without their value, but they fail along the lines in which textual oriti cism has made the greatest advance. These examples consist for the most part in (1) a comparison of the corrupt reading of a manuscript with a conjectured emendation of a scholar, or (2) in a comparison of the readings of two or more manu scripts of the same author, of which the relationship is generally uncertain, or at least remote. Illustrations chosen according to either method are Often misleading to the student, even granting that, in the first method, the scholar's conjecture what the author actually wrote. A great many corruptions to be found in manuscripts of all periods are no longer in their initial stages, but are the complex result of several distinct processes of growth. The student, with nothing before him but what the author is supposed to have written and the cor rupt reading of, let us say, a thirteenth century manuscript, may be dealing only with a corruption in a late stage. All the earlier steps are missing, and certainty with regard to them is out of the question. Such an illustration has little value for him, leading as it does to no conclusion which is surely right, and possibly to one which is wholly wrong. Likewise, neither of these methods keeps clearly before the student the character of the errors common to certain styles of writing and certain periods of time. Both of them are lacking in palaeographical details.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1332006361
• ISBN 13: 9781332006366
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 104