The transmission of classical and patristic texts in late Anglo-Saxon and early Norman England

Paleography;Paleography, English

Castles, Nicola Jane ; Gratwick, Adrian ; Gratwick, Adrian

University:The University of St Andrews

Department:Classics (School of)

关键词: Paleography;    Paleography, English;   

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【 摘 要 】

This thesis consists of a general introduction to thehistorical and palaeographical background to the subject ofthe transmission of Classical and Patristic texts in lateAnglo-Saxon and early Norman England, followed by fivechapters each dealing with a classical or patristic author.Each chapter lists the information we have available onmanuscripts containing the author's work, and conclusionsare drawn as to the transmission of that work. In the caseof five texts, Persius, Satirae; Augustine, Enchiridion;Gregory, Cura pastoralis and Moralia and Isidore, Synonymarportions of each MS are taken and compared in detail witheach other and with the modern printed edition, and a stemmais constructed on the basis of evidence thus obtained. Aconclusion draws together the information on thetransmission of such manuscripts throughout the eighth totwelfth centuries. There are two appendices: the firstcontains brief notes on texts by Classical and Patristicauthors of which there are not enough copies to formstemmata, while the second takes the form of a shortanalysis of the use of the letter k in the margins of someinsular MSS studied. There are also indices nominum etmanuscriptorum. The work is divided into two volumes afterChapter Three.