Second edtion, revised and enlarged. x, 275 pages followed by 16 plates. cloth, dust jacket.. small 8vo..

Scribes and scholars: A guide to the transmission of Greek and Latin literature

Reynolds, L.D.

Literature & Fiction

Clarendon Press

Scribes and Scholars: A Guide to the Transmission of Greek and Latin Literature

The third edition of Scribes and Scholars takes into account the numerous discoveries in this rapidly-advancing field of knowledge by offering substantial revisions and additions to the book.  A note on how to interpret the information given in an apparatus criticus is also included.

Wilson, N.G.

History & Criticism

Oxford University Press

The third edition of Scribes and Scholars takes into account the numerous discoveries in this rapidly-advancing field of knowledge by offering substantial revisions and additions. A note on how to interpret the information given in an apparatus criticus is also included.

One of the remarkable facts about the history of Western culture is that we are still in a position to read large amounts of the literature produced in classical Greece and Rome despite the fact that for at least a millennium and a half all copies had to be produced by hand and were subject to the hazards of fire, flood, and war. This book explains how the texts survived and gives an account of the reasons why it was thought worthwhile to spend the necessary effort to preserve them for future generations. In the second edition a section of notes was included, and a new chapter was added to deal with some aspects of scholarship since the Renaissance. In the third edition (1991), the authors responded to the urgent need to take account of the very large number of discoveries in this rapidly advancing field of knowledge by substantially revising or enlarging certain sections. The last two decades have seen further advances, and this revised edition is designed to take account of them.

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Scribes and scholars: A guide to the transmission of Greek and Latin literature

Scribes and Scholars: A Guide to the Transmission of Greek and Latin Literature

Scribes and Scholars: A Guide to the Transmission of Greek and Latin Literature

Scribes and Scholars: A Guide to the Transmission of Greek and Latin Literature

Scribes and Scholars: A Guide to the Transmission of Greek and Latin Literature