The Textual Tradition of Pollux’s ›Onomasticon‹
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Jacopo Cavarzeran
About this book
This volume re-examines the manuscript tradition of Pollux’ Onomasticon, the ten-book Atticist lexicon that had the widest circulation in Medieval Byzantium and the Humanistic West. The important reference edition by Erich Bethe (1900–1937) paved the way for the study of the Onomasticon but is now almost a century old. The present volume provides (1) an up-to-date study of the manuscripts in the light of recent advancements in the fields of codicology and palaeography, which complements Bethe’s with new information and corrects some mistakes in his edition. (2) A proposal for a new subdivision of manuscript families and their relations based on a collation of textual samples and a thorough study of the Palaeologan and Renaissance manuscripts overlooked by Bethe. (3) A study of the paratextual material (marginalia, scholia, epigrams) contained in the manuscripts. (4) Suggestions for a perspective future edition of the text, based on a sample of newly edited text with comprehensive apparatuses of sources, loci similes, etc. This volume will be of interest to Classicists working on the manuscript transmission of erudite texts and historians of Atticism.
Author / Editor information
Jacopo Cavarzeran, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy.
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Frontmatter
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Foreword
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Contents
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1 Introduction
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2 The manuscripts and their sigla, and the printed editions before Bethe
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3 A subscription and two epigrams
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4 Preliminary considerations on the textual tradition of Pollux
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5 An essential overview of the families and groups in the textual tradition of the Onomasticon with the exception of Book 1
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6 Book 2: Mostly on the human body
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7 Book 5: On hunting, wild beasts, women’s adornments, and whatever else came to Pollux’s mind
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8 Book 10: Everyday tools and how to say them
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9 Summary: The Pollux that could be
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10 The textual tradition of Book 1 of the Onomasticon, followed by a provisional edition of the same
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11 Sample of the edition of Book 1 of the Onomasticon
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Abbreviations
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Bibliography
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Indexes
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