"This extensive survey of scribal correction in English manuscripts explores what correcting reveals about attitudes to books, language and literature in late medieval England. Daniel Wakelin surveys a range of manuscripts and genres, but focuses especially on poems by Chaucer, …
Ausgehend von der vorkritischen Interpretation des Esra-Nehemiabuches zeigt der Verfasser in einer detaillierten Analyse der Nehemia-Denkschrift, dass die Formulierung in der ersten Person als Kriterium für die Abgrenzung der verba Neemiae von den Zusätzen späterer Autoren nicht…
Studies in stemmatology
This volume contains ten papers selected from among those presented at the annual Free University Stemmatological Colloquia 1990-93. Current issues in (automated) stemmatology, paleography and codicology are addressed from contemporary theoretical perspectives. All papers focus …
In 2001, the exciting but enigmatic 4th century Coptic Matthew text, Codex Schøyen, was introduced as an alternative, non-canonical Matthew. In this lightly revised Cambridge PhD thesis, James M. Leonard refutes these sensational claims through fresh methodological approaches an…
"For the first time, the dramatic changes the Qur'anic code underwent during the Umayyad period (660-750 C.E.) are analysed and presented on the basis of a selection of material in good part unpublished. In 'Qur'ans of the Umayyads', François Déroche offers a chronology of the v…
Review text: "M. does an admirable job by serving both purposes, remaining concise and methodologically accurate on the one hand and writing in a very readable and interesting style on the other. Consequently, for the scholar, the advanced student, and the learned non-specialist…
Myths on the Margins of Homer: Prolegomena to the ›Mythographus Homericus‹
by Pontani, Filippomaria, Edmunds, Lowell, Montana, Fausto, Pagès, Joan, Fowler, Robert, Villagra, Nereida, Michels, Johanna, Pàmias, Jordi, Smith, Robert Scott, Montanari, Franco
fromTrends in classics. Supplementary volumes
Even though there is agreement on the existence of an Imperial commentary on Homer, going under the name Mythographus Homericus, a large-scale study of this work has been lacking. The objective of this collective volume is to fill this blank. The authors represent diverse opinio…
Myths on the margins of Homer: Prolegomena to the Mythographus Homericus‹
by Pontani, Filippomaria, Edmunds, Lowell, Montana, Fausto, Pagès, Joan, Fowler, Robert, Villagra, Nereida, Michels, Johanna, Montanari, Franco, Pàmias, Jordi, Smith, Robert Scott
fromTrends in classics. Supplementary volumes
Even though there is agreement on the existence of an Imperial commentary on Homer, going under the name Mythographus Homericus, a large-scale study of this work has been lacking. The objective of this collective volume is to fill this blank. The authors represent diverse opinio…
The verse-by-verse commentary on the Ovidian text includes the reading of more than 300 manuscripts, including the so-called Heinsian manuscripts, and of almost 100 editions, from the two "editiones principes" of 1471 to the present day.The introduction describes the manuscripts…
