THE HISTORIA AVGVSTA BEFORE MS PAL. LAT. 899: LOST MANUSCRIPTS AND SCRIBAL MEDIATION

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Martin Shedd
Keyword(s):  
Textual Tradition ◽  
Initial Volume ◽  
Manuscript Tradition ◽  
Historia Augusta ◽  
Single Branch

Abstract This article re-evaluates the role of the manuscript tradition of the Historia Augusta in debates over the original contents and authorship of the text. Evidence for physical disruptions to the text before our oldest surviving manuscripts points to an earlier manuscript distributed across multiple codices. A multi-volume archetype eliminates critical arguments against the author's claims about lives missing before the Life of Hadrian as well as in the lacuna for the years a.d. 244–260. Other multi-volume codices of the eighth and ninth centuries show that loss of an initial volume would have disrupted the textual tradition for the index, titles and authorial attributions. Comparison of our most complete early witness, Pal. lat. 899, to the independent branches of the textual tradition shows discrepancies between these paratextual elements as expected in a disrupted tradition. Ultimately, this article concludes that the current debates on authorship and the original scope of the Historia Augusta rest on paratextual elements from a single branch of the manuscript tradition, raising doubts about the centrality of these controversies to understanding the work.

Marius Maximus and Ausonius' Caesares

1981 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 226-236 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. P. H. Green
Keyword(s):  
Latin Literature ◽  
Lack Of Information ◽  
Manuscript Tradition ◽  
Historia Augusta

The disappearance of the imperial biographies written by Marius Maximus is one of the more frustrating losses of Latin literature, for various reasons: the well-known testimony of Ammianus, the interest (and frivolity) of Marius Maximus' attested contribution to the Historia Augusta, his importance, much in dispute, to the writer of that work, the lack of information on much of the period he covered, and, not least, the fascinating role assigned to him by modern scholars, remodelling a previous duality of sources, of bad biographer in contrast to the good Ignotus. It has recently become common practice for the evidence of Ausonius' (so-called) Caesares to be used in the search for this biographer. The suggestion goes back to a dissertation of F. della Corte in 1956/7, and was taken up in his edition of Ausonius' works by Pastorino, and discussed in the following year by Cazzaniga who, though uncertain about the dependence of Ausonius on Marius Maximus, does misleadingly assert (perhaps echoing Momigliano) ‘e certo che l'ultima epigramma tocca Elagabalo, che chiude la silloge’. More recently, della Corte has returned to the question and sketched a possible model for the growth of the whole extant collection of Ausonius' Caesares, on the basis of the manuscript tradition. The same volume contains a contribution to the question by S. d'Elia and includes, by a felicitous piece of editing, an extended footnote in which d'Elia is able to comment on the relevant part of della Corte's paper.Meanwhile, outside Italy, there have been parallel and independent developments.

Ismaili Onto-Cosmological Doctrines in the Manuscript Tradition of the Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 37-62
Author(s):  
Carmela Baffioni
Keyword(s):  
Common Belief ◽  
Manuscript Tradition

Abstract This paper discusses Ismaili tendencies in some additions to the MSS of the Rasāʾil Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ consulted for the new edition of the encyclopaedia launched by the Institute of Ismaili Studies. Onto-cosmology is addressed in particular. The texts are in part copied from the Risāla al-Jāmiʿa and the Risāla Jāmiʿat al-Jāmiʿa. Sometimes they show similarities with Balīnūs, the Arabic pseudo-Apollonius of Tyana whom recent studies consider to play an important role in Ismaili thought. Though based on emanatism, onto-cosmology shares the religious terminology referred to hypostases; it introduces the concept of ibdāʿ besides that of emanation, the cosmic role of Imperative and the conception of God “beyond everything”; and it re-examines the Neoplatonic hypostases in the light of the Scriptural tale of Adam. Even if the additions were later interpolations, they demonstrate that the Ikhwān’s leaning towards Ismailism was a common belief at least in a certain manuscript tradition.

On the Orestes of Euripides

1990 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 100-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Diggle
Keyword(s):  
Textual Tradition ◽  
Manuscript Tradition ◽  
Relative Value

I cite manuscripts from my own collations. Information about most of these manuscripts, and explanation of the symbols by which I designate them, may be found in A. Turyn, The Byzantine Manuscript Tradition of the Tragedies of Euripides (Urbana, 1953), K. Matthiessen, Studien zur Textüberlieferung der Euripideischen Hekabe (Heidelberg, 1974), and D. J. Mastronarde and J. M. Bremer, The Textual Tradition of Euripides' Phoinissai (Berkeley, 1982). I shall discuss the affiliations and the relative value of these manuscripts on a later occasion. For the present no knowledge of these matters is needed. I refer to modern editions by the names of their editors: Wecklein = N. Wecklein (Leipzig, 1890), Wecklein (1906) = N. Wecklein (Leipzig and Berlin, 1906), Di Benedetto = V. Di Benedetto (Florence, 1965), Biehl = W. Biehl (Leipzig, Teubner, 1975), Willink = C. W. Willink (Oxford, 1986, 1989 [with Addendis Addenda]), West = M. L. West (Warminster, Aris and Phillips, 1987). Studies refers to my Studies on the Text of Euripides (Oxford, 1981).

scholarly journals Research by Ralya Mikhailovna Cejtlin about the Lexicon of the Gospel Manuscript Tradition

2021 ◽  
pp. 20-25
Author(s):  
Marcello Garzaniti ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Greek Text ◽  
Manuscript Tradition

The study briefly illustrates some features of the scholar's research on the lexicon of the Gospel manuscript tradition, emphasizing the role of the Greek text and the distinction between textual and lexical variants.

scholarly journals Towards a conceptualization of the study of Africa’s indigenous manuscript heritage and tradition

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 143-163
Author(s):  
Mary Minicka
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
African History ◽  
Textual Information ◽  
Manuscript Tradition ◽  
Widespread Availability ◽  
Islamic Society

This paper share experiences of th South African Conservation Technical Team of the Timbuktu Rare Manuscripts Project in the conservation and preservation of manuscripts in Timbuktu. A manuscript is always more than just its textual information – it is a living historical entity and its study a complex web of interrelated factors: the origins, production (that is, materials, formats, script, typography, and illustration), content, use and role of books in culture, educated and society in general. The widespread availability of paper made it easier to produce these manuscripts as some of the important vehicles for transmitting of knowledge in Islamic society. Islamic written culture, particularly during the time of the European middle ages was by all accounts incomparably more brilliant than anything known in contemporary Europe. The time for studying the African manuscript tradition has never been more appropriate given the recent renewed calls for the need to reappraise African history and achievements. It must be acknowledged, however, that the study of African manuscript heritage will not be without difficulty.

Initiation of Submarine Granular Avalanches: Role of the Initial Volume Fraction

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mickaël Pailha ◽  
Olivier Pouliquen ◽  
Maxime Nicolas ◽  
Albert Co ◽  
Gary L. Leal ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Volume Fraction ◽  
Initial Volume ◽  
Initial Volume Fraction

Scriptor Historiae Augustae

1987 ◽  
Vol 77 ◽  
pp. 156-176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tony Honoré
Keyword(s):  
The West ◽  
Historia Augusta

A recent study of the Theodosian Code, which includes the identification of constitutions composed by Ausonius (A.D. 375 to 377) and Nicomachus Flavianus (A.D. 388 to 390) as quaestors prompts a fresh interpretation of the Historia Augusta and its author, whom I shall call Scriptor. On this interpretation his work is subtler than is generally conceded. The enigmatic series of biographies meant, and was intended to mean, different things to different people: to the vulgar it was an entertaining and often salacious series of lives interspersed with jokes; to the author an enjoyable exercise in teasing others and not least himself; to the insider a set of puzzles behind which lurked personal and political allusions, but also a reflection on certain political themes: the role of the Roman senate and urban prefecture, the importance of regular administration, the overriding need to defend Gaul and the west.

scholarly journals ‘This man is looking for a gesture’: John Dos Passos’s Transcultural and Transnational Views about History and Literature in "Rosinante to the Road Again"

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-114
Author(s):  
Eulalia Piñero Gil
Keyword(s):  
Historical Context ◽  
Literary Form ◽  
Spanish History ◽  
Political Unconscious ◽  
Historical Reality ◽  
The Road ◽  
Textual Tradition ◽  
Fundamental Part ◽  
History And Literature

This interdisciplinary essay analyzes John Dos Passos’s travel book Rosinante to the Road Again (1922) from a Jamesonian perspective, focusing on the implicit dialectical interaction between creativity and the totality of history, the role of the modernist utopian illusion and the quest for return to an Edenic past, the cosmopolitan expatriate individual as a fundamental part of a historical context, and the implications of the literary form in relation to a concrete textual tradition or movement. For this purpose, the analysis draws on Jameson’s The Modernist Papers and The Political Unconscious to establish a dialectical criticism that investigates how the literary form is engaged with a material historical situation. Therefore, the Spanish socio-historical reality depicted in Rosinante becomes a symbol of Dos Passos’s search for the return to the mythic Arcadia. In his transcultural and transnational quest for the Spanish gesture, Dos Passos was searching how to define his own unstable hybrid modernist identity in the context of Spanish history and literature. As a result, Rosinante becomes a sort of paradigmatic modernist epic in which the American writer experiments with the literary motif of the journey as a form of self-exploration. His temporary expatriate condition, and the reality of being an American with Portuguese roots, determined his need for a more Edenic and epic culture far from the limitations of the American urban industrialization and materialism.

Divination in theHan shuBibliographic Treatise

Early China ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 45-101 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Early China ◽  
Scientific Observation ◽  
Textual Tradition ◽  
Systematic Inquiry ◽  
Major Exception

With the major exception of theYi jing, we have neither formal canons nor commentaries for most early Chinese mantic traditions. Indirect reflections on these traditions appear in scattered commentaries, in biographical narratives, and, importantly, in excavated texts. The major source for mantic materials from the received textual tradition is the lists of their titles inHan shu30, the “Yiwen zhi” or Bibliographic Treatise. It is a guide to the categories of knowledge used by Han thinkers, and created an influential paradigm for the classification of texts and knowledge. The present study provides a necessarily selective survey of mantic texts in the “Yiwen zhi,” with a specific view to: (1) how it underscored the authority of some techniques and marginalized others; (2) its relation to what we know of Han mantic practices; and (3) what it reveals about the role of the mantic arts as constituents of scientific observation and systematic inquiry in early China.

MANUSCRIPTS, SHARIA AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM VALUES GROWTH IN WEST NUSA TENGGARA

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 183-191
Author(s):  
Lalu Muhammad Ariadi ◽  
Abdul Quddus ◽  
Akhmad Asyari
Keyword(s):  
Religious Freedom ◽  
High Impact ◽  
New Method ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Manuscript Tradition

Purpose of the study: The purpose of this study is to discuss the role of manuscripts and shariah on religious freedom values growth in West Nusa Tenggara. Methodology: The methodology in this paper was the anthropology method. Main Findings: The main finding in this paper is the connection between Syariah values on manuscripts in Lombok with religious freedom tradition between religious communities in Sasaknese villages. Applications of this study: This pesantren is Pesantren Nurul Bayan in North Lombok and Pesantren Nurul Harmain in West Lombok. Novelty/Originality of this study: By doing research between manuscripts and Syariah values, this research shows that freedom and tolerance values on manuscripts succeeded in expanding peaceful religious communities in Lombok. Thus, this research recommends the high impact of manuscript tradition to construct a new method of tolerance studies.

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