Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 July 2016
In 2007 I published the first part of some manuscript notes on the text of Menander Rhetor, which I attributed to F. Jacobs (1764–1847). I now present the second part of these notes, alongside a global assessment of all the coniectanea and corrections by F. Jacobs on the text of this rhetor.
1 RhM 159 (2007), 282–97.
2 Philologisches Schriftsteller-Lexikon (Leipzig, 1882 [Darmstadt, 1966]), 259. On p. 130 there is some information about the life and work of F. Jacobs, although more is given in K. Regel, Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB) (Leipzig, 1881), 13.600–12. None mentions these manuscript notes on Menander rhetor. I was not able to find them at the University and Forschungsbibliothek Erfurt/Gotha, where the legacy of F. Jacobs is currently preserved. My research has been carried out as part of project ‘Greek manuscripts in Spain and their European context’ ([II]FFI2015-67475-C2-2-P). I would like to express my gratitude to Dr Alberto Quiroga and Dr Álvaro Cancela for their valuable assistance in reviewing this paper, and to Dr Olivia Cockburn for revising the English text.
3 Abbreviated in the manuscript as ‘H.’.
4 ‘Variae lectiones, chap. IV’, no. 80, 649–53, and ‘Variae lectiones, chap. V’, no. 81, 657–62.
5 Which is palaeographically similar to σέλματι; see my ‘Catorce notas críticas al rétor Menandro’, Cuadernos de Filología Clásica (G) 2 (1992), 200 Google Scholar.
6 The page number that appears at the beginning of each note in the manuscript refers to Heeren's edition, which is the edition used by Jacobs in his manuscript. In the commentary that I have added after the edited manuscript, I have provided the modern equivalents of these references in the Russell-Wilson edition to ensure that each passage can be located easily.
7 (= Heeren).
8 ‘= Sch. Zeit. Var. Lect. c. V’ (add. in marg.).
9 ‘ἅτ’ οὐ, cod. Paris. 2423, probante Bastio in appendice Epist., p. 20, s.’ (in marg.).
10 ‘Sed cod. Paris. 2423, γυναικὶ πολὺ παιδίον, unde Bast ad Greg. Cor. p. 332, γυναικὶ πολύπαιδι’ (in marg.).
11 ‘Scribe: προσόντα, ut p. 73,6 et p. 74,4’ (in marg.).
12 ‘Sch. Zeit. Var. Lect. c. 5’ (in marg.).
13 ‘P. 72,4, similiter περιλαβεῖν’ (in marg.).
14 (post. corr.),‘κατείληφεν (?)’ (ante corr.).
15 ‘cf. p. 83,3. In Cod. Paris. 2423 ἀποχρῶντες, quod verum videtur Bastio in Add. ad Ep. Cr. p. 276’ (in marg.).
16 (post corr.).
17 ‘Philes de An. Propr. c. 49, ἐν ἡσύχῳ προῆλθε πελμάτων βάσει’ (in marg.).
18 ‘= Sch. Zeit. Var. Lect. c. 5’ (in marg.).
19 (post corr.), ‘τοὺς ἐνοι.’ (ante corr.).
20 ‘Σεμίραμις’ (in marg.).
21 (post corr.), ‘iure et utilitate’ (ante corr.).
22 [sic].
23 ‘κοινῶς’ (in marg.).
24 [sic pro θηραυτικὴ, ut vid.].
25 ‘τῆς δ’αὖ’ (ante corr.).
26 περὶ (supra lin.).
27 ‘ἰδία μὲν’ (supra lin.).
28 ‘cf. supra ad Antig. Car. c. 174, p. 217, ἄλλων pro αὐτῶν’ (in marg.).
29 ‘μόνον διατρίβειν’ (in marg.).
30 ‘ubi scribendum suspicor: ἄλλα ἐν ὡς βραχυτάτοις ἐπιδραμεῖν’ (eras.).
31 To ensure that each passage can be easily located, following the page number from Heeren's edition I have provided in brackets the page number in the Russell-Wilson edition.
32 Cf. Gnomon 55 (1983), 202.