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A Mediaeval Excerptor of the Elder Pliny

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

D. J. Campbell
D. J. Campbell
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Edinburgh University
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Editors of Pliny's Naturalis Historia have not had to deplore the paucity of the MS. tradition, but rather its value; while MSS. belonging to the ordo recentiorum are numerous and fairly complete, those of the ordo uetustiorum are very few, and never contain more than a few books, often with considerable gaps. They are A ii 196–vi 51, M xi–xv, P and H parts of xviii, I xxiii, xxv, B xxxii–xxxvii (end). There are also some scattered fragments. Detlefsen indeed claimed that the restoration of the original text of the N.H. is more difficult than that of any other Latin author owing to the mutilated and defective transmission of considerable parts.

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The Classical Quarterly , Volume 26 , Issue 2 , April 1932, pp. 116 - 119
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1932

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page 116 note 1 References are to the Teubner edition, May hoff, 1892–1909, except where otherwise stated.

page 116 note 2 Hermes xxxii (1897), p. 321Google Scholar.

page 116 note 3 Quoted in Jahresbericht der hlass. Altertumswiss. 231, p. 125.

page 116 note 4 My best thanks are due to the officials of the Bibl. Nat. for having the MS. transferred to Paris, and to Professor Souter, Aberdeen, who arranged the transfer.

page 116 note 5 So Rück as quoted in Jakresb., supra cit.

page 117 note 1 Hermes, supra cit.

page 117 note 2 I refer to the excerpts as n. Mayhoff does not seem to have used this letter, though edd. between them have exhausted all the letters of the alphabet.

page 118 note 1 Rheinisches Museum xv, p. 368 sqq.

page 118 note 2 Hermes, supra cit.

page 118 note 3 Rh. M. xv, p. 374 sq.

page 118 note 4 Now incorporated in the Vatican Library.