0.9 Textual criticism & Textual transmission  (Page 4/5)

G. P. Goold, “Servius and the Helen Episode,” HSCP 74 (1970) 101-68

H. C. Gotoff, The Transmission of the Text of Lucan in the Ninth Century (1971)

A. E. Housman, ed., M. Manilii Astronomicon liber primus[-quintus] (5 vols., 1903-1930)

---, ed., M. Annaei Lucani Belli civilis libri decem (1926)

On Housman, see now D. Butterfield and C. Stray, eds., A. E. Housman: Classical Scholar (2009)

O. Jahn, ed., Auli Persii Flacci Satirarum Liber (1843)

---, “Ueber die Subscriptionen in den Hanschriften römischer Classiker,” Berichte d. sächs. Ges. Der Wiss. zu Leipzig , Phil.-Hist. Klasse 3 (1851) 327-72

K. Lachmann, ed., T. Lucreti Cari De rerum natura libri sex (1851)

On Lachmann, see S. Timpanaro, The Genesis of Lachmann’s Method , tr. G. Most (2005)

F. Leo, ed. L. Annaei Senecae Tragoediae (1878-79)

J. N. Madvig, ed., M. Tulli Ciceronis De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum Libri V (1876)

K. Mueller, ed., Quintus Curtius Rufus: Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis libri qui supersunt (1954)

L. D. Reynolds, The Medieval Tradition of Seneca’s Letters (1965)

O. Ribbeck, ed., P. Vergili Maronis opera. Vol 5: Prolegomena critica (1868)

F. Ritschl, ed., T. Macci Plauti Comoediae (1848-54)

J. J. Scaliger, Catulli, Tibulli, Propertii nova editio (1577)

On Scaliger as a critic, see A. T. Grafton, Joseph Scaliger: A Study in the History of Classical Scholarship Vol. 1 (1983)

D. R. Shackleton Bailey, ed., Cicero’s Letters to Atticus (7 vols., 1965-1970)

R. J. Tarrant, ed., P. Ovidi Nasonis Metamorphoses (2004)

P. Wessner, ed., Scholia in Iuuenalem Vetustiora (1931)

4. history of textual criticism

This section inevitably repeats some previous entries and there is much on the subject in studies (above, #3) of particular texts.

E. J. Kenney, The Classical Text (1974)

G. Pasquali, Storia della tradizione e critica del testo (ed. 2, 1962)

L. D. Reynolds and N. G. Wilson, Scribes and Scholars (ed. 3, 1991)

S. Timpanaro, The Genesis of Lachmann’s Method , tr. G. Most (2005)

J. Zetzel, Latin Textual Criticism in Antiquity (1981)

Ii. i have found a reference to a manuscript and need to find out more about it.

1. repertories of catalogues and groups of manuscripts

All manuscript collections have catalogues, but not all catalogues are either a) printed or b) informative. If you want to start serious study of manuscripts of a given author (or of manuscript catalogues that mention a given author), start from broader collections and work your way down to specific libraries.

G. Becker, Catalogi bibliothecarum antiqui (1885)

B. Bischoff, Katalog der festländischen Handschriften des neunten Jahrhunderts: (mit Ausnahme der wisigotischen) (1998-)

P. O. Kristeller, Iter Italicum; a finding list of uncatalogued or incompletely catalogued humanistic manuscripts of the Renaissance in Italian and other libraries . (1963-97)

---, Latin manuscript books before 1600; a list of the printed catalogues and unpublished inventories of extant collections . (1965)

P. O. Kristeller et al., Catalogus Translationum et Commentariorum (1960--)

E. A. Lowe, ed., Codices latini antiquiores : a palaeographical guide to Latin manuscripts prior to the ninth century (1934-1972)