La tradizione manoscritta del 'De incredibilibus' di Palefato

The treatise On Unbelievable Tales of the Greek mythographer Palaephatus (Athens, 4th or 3rd century B. C.) is preserved in about fifty manuscripts dated between the 13th and the 18th century. By combining textual, palaeographical, codicological, and historical data concerning the manuscripts and their copists and owners, the present volume aims at establishing the relations between all the manuscripts and at outlining the history of the transmission and circulation of the text. In order to better understand and study scribal errors and intentional modifications to the text, the analysis of each witness is accompained by a list of all its textual differences with respect to its model.

About the author

Eugenio Villa
, Università di Udine, San Donà di Piave, Italy.

Summary

The treatise
On Unbelievable Tales
of the Greek mythographer Palaephatus (Athens, 4th or 3rd century B. C.) is preserved in about fifty manuscripts dated between the 13th and the 18th century. By combining textual, palaeographical, codicological, and historical data concerning the manuscripts and their copists and owners, the present volume aims at establishing the relations between all the manuscripts and at outlining the history of the transmission and circulation of the text. In order to better understand and study scribal errors and intentional modifications to the text, the analysis of each witness is accompained by a list of all its textual differences with respect to its model.

Product details

• Authors: Eugenio Villa
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: Italian
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.03.2025
• EAN: 9783111589428
• ISBN: 978-3-11-158942-8
• No. of pages: 364
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 24 mm x 237 mm
• Weight: 667 g
• Illustrations: 89 b/w and 6 col. ill.
• Series: Beiträge zur Altertumskunde
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Altgriechisch, Textkritik, History: earliest times to present day, HIS000000 HISTORY / General, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Classical history / classical civilisation, LIT000000 LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Textual Criticism, Stemmatologische Methode, Palaephatus, Stemmatics