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Codex Cantabrigiensis (D) in Trinity College Library, Cambridge, a Ms. of the Third Decade of Livy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Florence Whitehead
Affiliation:
The University of Manchester

Extract

The critical problems of the Third Decade of Livy have long been familiar to students. In Books XXI.–XXV. we have only the mutilated Codex Puteanus (P) of the fifth century and later manuscripts derived from it, directly or indirectly, at one or more points in its history. R, C, and most probably M, are copies of P, after it was corrected by P2 and probably P3. Here the problem in the parts in which P is preserved is to correct its numerous corruptions by conjecture as far as possible; and, where it is now defective, by comparing the later MSS. to arrive at their inter-relation and at P's original text, and then subject this text to the same process of criticism. Also a study of the corrections in the earlier of these MSS. may reveal the previous existence of other traditions and of other MSS. now lost—such corrections, e.g., as are made by P4, R2, and M2.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1917

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Page 69 note 1 This essay is the result of work done as Research Scholar of the University of Manchester, at Newnham and Manchester, under the general direction of Professor R. S. Conway; and I have to thank Professor Conway and Professor Flamstead Walters for valuable criticism and help.

Page 70 note 1 This was probably in the year 1670–1 as appears in J. F. Gronov's letters to his son Jakob—a reference I owe to Professor W. B. Anderson; see especially one dated IV. Idus Dec. 1670.

Page 71 note 1 Emmdat. Liuianae, Ed. 2, p. 245.

Page 71 note 2 Professor Conway has ascertained from Mr. Roby's executors, who made a special search, that no part of his notes (save a partial facsimile of one page) was in existence at the time of his death.

Page 72 note 1 Afterwards Sir John Bond.

Page 75 note 1 See Conway and Walters, Vol. I., p. x.