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What Catullus
Wrote: Problems in Textual Criticism, Editing and the Manuscript
Tradition
edited by Daniel Kiss
ISBN-9781905125999, 2015, ppxxx
+ 194,
The poems of Catullus barely managed to survive
the Middle Ages. All surviving copies of the collection derive from
an extremely corrupt manuscript, and scholars have been working since
the Renaissance to reconstruct the original text. This volume aims
to contribute to this effort. The authors represent different generations
of scholarship and of academic tradition. They here study aspects
of the manuscript tradition of the poems and their editorial history
as well as contributing directly to the reconstruction of the text.
The volume aims to set an example of a collaborative approach to
textual criticism, in which significant choices are based not on
the judgement of a single authoritative editor, but on the outcome
of debate between scholars who represent a broad range of viewpoints.
CONTENTS
Preface
Introduction: A sketch of the transmission of the text - Dániel
Kiss (University College Dublin)
1. The lost Codex Veronensis and its descendants: three problems
in Catullus’ manuscript tradition – Dániel Kiss
2. Catullus, Sabellico (& Co.) and Giorgio Pasquali – Giuseppe
Gilberto Biondi (Parma)
3. Pontano’s Catullus – Julia Haig Gaisser (Bryn Mawr)
4. Nicolaus Heinsius’s notes on Catullus – Antonio
Ramírez de Verger (Huelva)
5. Cui uideberis bella: the influence of Baehrens and Housman on
the text of Catullus – David Butterfield (Cambridge)
6. Problems in Catullus 45, 62 and 67 – Stephen Heyworth
(Oxford)
Bibliography
List of manuscripts
Indices