This thesis lays the foundation for a new edition of the pseudo-Virgilian Culex. Fifty manuscripts containing the text are gathered along with all relevant information which would assist a scholar in locating, identifying and tracing the history of each one. The findings are presented in the form of a catalogue. Next, the manuscripts are collated in detail and their variant readings are entered into a computer program which is specifically designed to determine the relationship between manuscripts. The results prove that some manuscripts belong to the Florilegium Gallicum or Iuuenalis Ludi Libellus groups which have been defined by previous researchers. Others have been copied from printed books and are valuable only for conjectures as they add nothing to the construction of a stemma. The data from the manuscripts forms the basis for an apparatus criticus along with many readings from incunabula. The main goal of the thesis is to present late manuscripts which have not been sufficiently studied as well as incunabula and other rare books which are not readily accessible to scholars. During the composition of the apparatus, it becomes apparent that old conjectures have been improperly attributed to some scholars and that more work needs to be done to assess the contribution of certain individuals. Once the apparatus is complete, the task of editing the text begins. Professor Clausen's Oxford Classical Text serves as the starting point but original conjectures and changes proposed by other scholars are also inserted into the text. Finally, these alterations as well as issues of grammar and scansion are discussed in a commentary at the end of the work.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:uottawa.ca/oai:ruor.uottawa.ca:10393/6264 |
| Date | January 2001 |
| Creators | St. Louis, Lisa Lianne. |
| Contributors | Brearley, Denis, |
| Publisher | University of Ottawa (Canada) |
| Source Sets | Université d’Ottawa |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | 216 p. |
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