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Procli Diadochi in Platonis Timaeum Commentaria, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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9780265885918: Procli Diadochi in Platonis Timaeum Commentaria, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)

Synopsis

Explore a detailed scholarly edition of a medieval manuscript filled with notes, margins, and a careful study of its quaternions.

This edition dives into the physical features, scribal practices, and textual variants that shape our understanding of ancient and medieval texts.

The work presents a careful description of codices, marginalia, and palaeographic details, focusing on how the manuscript was written, corrected, and annotated over time. It highlights the challenges of reconstructing an original text from several archetypes and copies, while noting the limits and possibilities of scholarly editing.

  • How scribes arranged quaternions and quinionums across folios and how this affects reading order.
  • Marginal scholia, glosses, and notes that accompany the main text.
  • Comparisons between different manuscript witnesses and how editors address lacunae and misreadings.
  • Methodologies used to trace the manuscript’s lineage, its community of readers, and the edition’s textual choices.

Ideal for readers interested in codicology, palaeography, and the history of classical scholarship.

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