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The aim of this paper is to shed new light on three passages of Ps.-Scylax's Periplus: at 99.1-3, the words τñς Κνíδου (that we read on the margin of the Paris. Suppl. Gr. 443) should be not included in the text (as Shipley does); at 26.1, the sentence καì Αἵας ποταµὀς ... παραρρεī should be retained; at 110.10 read έστιυ ίσθµός σταδίωυ ρπ´ (i.e. 180 stadia wide). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The textual tradition of Andocides' De Mysteriis is simple: codex unicus, almost no papyri, almost no indirect tradition. Editors are therefore bound to rely on their ingenium only. This paper discusses five passages of the oration, thus showing examples of some of the problems scholars have to face in studying it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present essay intends to address an aspect of Bif's anglomania as it appears from his partial translation from the original English language of the epistolary novel The History of Lady Julia Mandeville (1763), found among his manuscript papers. The name of Frances Brooke, the author of the novel, is not given with the title in the manuscript and was probably totally ignored by Bif and by the Italian readership at large. The paper explores the reasons that might have led Bif to start such an enterprise, the kind of appeal Brooke's novel could have to his curiosity, and also why he suddenly dropped the experiment and lef the translation at a very early stage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper identifies the lexicon preserved at ff. 27r -32r of ms. Laur. Plut. 57.24 (first half of the 14th cent.) as an epitome of the Lexicum Seguerianum περi σuvtaξεως, recently edited by D. Petrova in 2006. Additionally, it argues that, for this very section of the codex, ms. Laur. Plut. 57.24 is the apographon of ms. Coisl. gr. 345 (10th cent.), the only surviving witness of the lexicon περi σuvtaξεως in its versio plenior. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper deals with the MS 29 (70) of the Bibliothèque Municipale of Chartres, a 10th century witness of Joseph Flavius’ Antiquitates Iudaicae and Bellum Iudaicum. The manuscript was severely damaged by the fire from 1944 and 211 fragments of it survive in different state of conservation, out of the 245 folios that once formed the codex. The research has allowed to reestablish the correct textual sequence of the fragments, all digitized in the Bibliothèque virtuelle des manuscrits médiévaux, describe the codicological and paleographical features of the manuscript, date it to the second half of the 10th century and make an hypotesis on its localisation between Fleury and Saint-Père of Chartres, two abbeys tightly connected from the second half of the 10th century inwards. The paper also gives some hints on the position of the manuscript in the textual transmission and investigates its relations with the MS 183 from the Burgerbibliothek of Bern. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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RNB.Pogodin.11 (P11) is an ancient East-Slavic Gospel lectionary (of the esk-type), for which various datings have been proposed, going back to the 11th century. This manuscript was given a prominent position in the 19th century editions of the Slavic version of the Gospels, as a witness of the 'ancient' redaction. Nevertheless, only in recent times has it become the object of extensive study. In the present paper, the text of P11 is preliminarily contextualized within the Slavic tradition, by use of the corpus of textual nodes, developed at the Münster Institute for New Testament Textual Research (): the analysis shows that the text of this codex has few points of contact with the tradition of the feast (esk) lectionary, while it is very close to the text of the Mstislav Gospel (except for the Mark cycle). From a typological point of view (moderate increasing of particular variants at the expense of the so-called 'Byzantine text'), P11 places itself between the 'first redaction' and the 'second redaction', i.e. between the 'ancient text' and the 'Preslav text'. The influence of the latter is particularly evident in the John cycle, especially in the first folios of the manuscript. In comparison to the Mstislav Gospel, the text of P11 seems to be more innovative, but with a strongly archaic lexicon. It confirms that 'text' and 'lexicon' are independent layers within the Slavic Gospels textual tradition, and were already perceived as such by the copyists. Adopting the distinction between 'form' and 'substance' of a text used by Romance philologists, I propose to interpret the innovative lexical forms of the Mstislav Gospel as a 'linguistic coat' (patina linguistica), while P11, both from the textual and the lexical point of view, seems to be 'formally' a more archaic stage of the same 'substance' (the so-called 'ancient text' or 'first redaction'). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper deals with the MS 29 (70) of the Bibliothèque Municipale of Chartres, a 10th century witness of Joseph Flavius’ Antiquitates Iudaicae and Bellum Iudaicum. The manuscript was severely damaged by the fire from 1944 and 211 fragments of it survive in different state of conservation, out of the 245 folios that once formed the codex. The research has allowed to reestablish the correct textual sequence of the fragments, all digitized in the Bibliothèque virtuelle des manuscrits mediévaux, describe the codicological and paleographical features of the manuscript, date it to the second half of the 10th century and make an hypotesis on its localisation between Fleury and Saint-Père of Chartres, two abbeys tightly connected from the second half of the 10th century inwards. The paper also gives some hints of the position of the manuscript in the textual transmission and investigates its relations with the MS 183 from the Burgerbibliothek of Bern.

Palaeographers and art-historians do not agree on firm criteria to date R, the luxury manuscript known as Vergilius Romanus: but they all eventually accept Norden's thesis arguing that a verse added in R (Aen. 6.242) is interpolated from a sixth century didactic poem, thus making R the latest of the premedieval manuscripts of the corpus. Besides reconsidering Norden's opinion, this essay tries to focus on some so far neglected aspects of this ancient edition (e.g. structure of the corpus, loss of critical semeia and political messages devised for discriminating readers): they seem indeed to give unexpected clues to the history of this most spectacular among ancient Virgilian illustrated corpora. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents an unpublished Bible dating from the second half of the 13th century, acquired from Montecassino’s Abbey in 1882, where it was held in the Private Archive (Montecassino, Archivio Privato dell’Abbazia, 3). The manuscript mirrors the features of the so-called ‘Paris Bible’, with very few exceptions, although it also exhibits some characteristics typical of Bibles produced in Italy during the 13-14th centuries. The analysis of its material and textual features, in particular the manner of its illumination, links this bible to a group of manuscripts presumably produced in the Roman area in the third quarter of the 13th century (now held in collections in Paris, Bologna, Assisi, and Vatican Apostolic Library in Rome).

Through the analysis of Mariano Campo's (1892-1976) published works and thanks to further insights offered by some unpublished manuscripts, the profile of a philosopher is outlined, whose main interest, throughout his academic and research activity, has been aesthetics. More specifically, Campo has focused on the centrality of feelings to human aesthetic experience: it is through feeling that we experience a transfiguration of reality, which happens paradigmatically when, in front of an artwork, we appreciate it as an integral whole, a totality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]