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A Preliminary Skeleton List of the Manuscripts of Euripides

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

J. A. Spranger
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The vast majority of the extant mss of Euripides consists of ‘Byzantine’ mss of the ‘school triad’, Hec, Or., Phoen. The value of this mass of material for textual criticism is problematical: it has been declared to be nil by numerous modern scholars, and this is no doubt a natural reaction against the excessive importance attached to certain of the ‘Byzantine’ mss by the scholars of the earlier part of last century, men like Porson and Dindorf, who, however, did not collate their mss with a view to such things as Leitfekler. In fact, until our knowledge of this class of mss is far more thorough than it is at present, it would be premature to pass judgement on it as a whole.

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Research Article
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The Classical Quarterly , Volume 33 , Issue 2 , April 1939 , pp. 98 - 107
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1939

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References

page 98 note 1 Cp. Calderini, A., ‘Intorno alia Biblioteca e alla cultura di Filelfo’, in Studj It., I, p. 309Google Scholar.

page 98 note 2 Nolhac, P. de, La Bibliothequt de F. Orsini, p. 121Google Scholar.

page 98 note 3 For information concerning the ms used by Isaac Voss (No. 52 in the list given below) cp. Prinz, R. in Jahrb. Cl. Phil. (1869), p. 761ffGoogle Scholar.

page 98 note 4 Cp. C.Q. xxxii, p. 2co, note 1.

page 98 note 5 Cp. Powell, J. Enoch, ‘The Cretan MSS of Thucydides’ in C.Q. xxxii, p. 108Google Scholar, and Gallvotti, C., ‘I codici planudei di Teocrito’, in Studj It., 1934, p. 289ffGoogle Scholar.

page 98 note 6 Cp. his prefatry letter to the ed. pr. of the Scholia to Euripides (1534): τὰ εἰς έπτὰ τραγωδίας τοῦ ɛὐριπίδην ɛὑρισου σποράδην εὑρισκόμενα σχσλια, ἁ δήγε οἶα τις μέλισσα ἐνίζαν' αῖς ἀνέτυχον βίβλοις τŵν παλαιŵν, ἔν τε μίνωος πσλει καὶ ‘ραδαμάνθυος, 'ɛνετίησί τε κἀν ϕλωρεντία.

page 99 note 1 Cp. C.Q. xxxii, p. 199, notes 1 and 2.