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Gai Suetoni Tranquilli De vita Caesarum libri I-II
Gai Suetoni Tranquilli De vita Caesarum libri III Author:Suetonius Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Ill MANUSCRIPTS AND EDITIONS OF SUETONIUS A. Manuscripts Manuscripts of Suetonius in immense numbers are to be found in the various libraries of Europe ... more »and Great Britain. Many of them have been thoroughly collated and carefully appraised, but there is still no general consensus of opinion regarding the classification of individual manuscripts and the relationship which exists between certain of the more important ones and those which, until more recent years, were considered of little or no authority in establishing the text of Suetonius. This is particularly true of manuscripts of the fifteenth century. Their real value and their relation to other manuscripts are yet to be determined by means of even more extensive collations than have been published. Among the more valuable manuscripts, the following are now pretty generally recognized.1 M. — Codex Memmianus, of the ninth century, now Parisinus 6115, in the National Library in Paris. From Tours, where it was known in the twelfth century, it came into the possession of Henri de Mesmes in the sixteenth century and is still known as Memmianus, though it bore other names, as Turo- nensis, Pithoeanus, at different times. It next came into l For discussions and other references than those here given, see K. L. Roth, Praefatio, XX ff.; C. L. Smith, Harvard Studies in Classical Philologg, XII (1901), 19 ff., XVI (1905), 1 ff.; A. A. Howard, Harvard Studies in Classical Philologg, XII (1901), 261 if.: M. L. Preud'homme, Troisieme IStude sur I'His- toire du Texte de Suetone de Vita Caesarum, Brussels, 1904; M. Ihm, editio maior, 1907, Praefatio, VII ff. iSmeric Bigot's library, which was purchased in 1706 for the library which now contains the precious manuscript. It is the oldest and most reliable, by common agreemen...« less