Preface: Cupis Volitare Per Auras – Books, Libraries and Textual Transmission

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface: Cupis Volitare Per Auras – Books, Libraries and Textual Transmission V
3. Contents VII
4. Acknowledgments IX
5. Introduction 1
6. Figured Books: Horatian Book- Representations 13
7. Horace’s Book and Sphragis. Writing Materials in Horace’s Epistles 1.20 25
8. Fake Intellectuals, and Books of Unquestionable Authority in Aulus Gellius’ Noctes Atticae and Lucian’s aduersus Indoctum 47
9. Martialis Epigrammaton liber decimus: Strategies for a Second Edition 59
10. Poetic Quotation in 4^th Century BC Attic Oratory 73
11. Jerome’s Two Libraries 91
12. Some remarks on P. Lit. Lond. 63, a riddle epigram of an anthology? 105
13. Textual Tradition and Reception in Theocritus 111
14. Eratosthenes’ studia Aristophanica 125
15. Eratosthenes’ Πλατωνικός between Philosophy and Mathematics 143
16. Transmission of Recipes and Receptaria in Greek Medical Writings on Papyrus 167
17. Latin Epigraphy and Literary Texts in 4^th Century AD Rome 189
18. The Scribal Habits of Codex Sangermanensis in Greek and Latin in Light of its Exemplar 201
19. The Hypogeum of the Aurelii: a Collegiate Tomb of Professional Scribes 239
20. The Library and the scriptorium of the Abbey of Montevergine in the 12^th and 13^th Century: Presences and Absences 269
21. Apocolocyntosis, codex V and the manuscript of Hadrianus Junius 277
22. The Textual Transmission of Ovid’s Metamorphoses during the Medieval Age: the Example of Germany 293
23. Bibliography 307
24. List of Contributors 339
25. Index 343