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The Triclinian Edition Of Aristophanes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

N. G. Wilson
Affiliation:
Merton College, Oxford

Extract

Among the Greek manuscripts in the Earl of Leicester's library at Holkham, which were recently acquired by the Bodleian Library throuth the generosity of the Dulverton Trust, is a volume containing eight of Aristophanes' plays. This manuscript (no. 88, formerly no. 269) is not included in the list of Aristophanes' manuscripts compilied by J. W. White, and it seems that no editor has ever consulted it. The object of this paper is to describe the manuscript, which will be called L, to prove that it is an almost complete copy of the Triclinian edition of Aristophanes,

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1962

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