Re: VIRGIL: Early Vergil printings and another request

2002-09-13 Thread David Wilson-Okamura
A few last notes on Virgil MSS. in the 

At 11:35 AM 8/23/2002 -0400, I wrote:
>For modern editions, the most important codices are (according to E.
>Courtney) as follows: Mediceus (Laurentian Lib. 39.1 and Vatican lat. 3225
>fol. 76), Romanus (Vatican lat. 3867), and Palatinus (Vatican, Pal. lat.
>1631). Palatinus was in Heidelberg until 1618, and therefore had little or
>no influence on Italian editions of Virgil's work in this period. Venier
>now confirms that Mediceus was used in the second printed edition of
>Virgil's works (1471). Mediceus and Romanus were also used by the most
>important of Virgil's textual critics for this period, Pierius Valerianus,
>on which see below. 

I have been doing some more reading on this subject, and need to make two
corrections:

1. According to Vladimiro Zabughin, Vergilio nel rinascimento italiano
(1923), 2:99 n. 20, Valeriano's "codex Mediceus" was not THE codex Mediceus
(Laurenziano 39.1), which dates back to the fifth century A.D., but merely
_a_ codex Mediceus (Laurenziano 39.23) which Zabughin places in the twelfth
century. Note, by the way, how Zabughin spells "Vergilio"; 

2. Venier's data does not refute the hypothesis that the real Mediceus was
used in the 1469 edition, but does not confirm it, either. Looking at
Venier's collation samples, I'm guessing that M probably _was_ used in the
1469 edition and that more collations would demonstrate it conclusively,
but Venier is cautious on this point, and insists very rightly that we
can't yet rule out convergent readings from an independent source. 

On the other hand, we do know that at least one scholar was looking at M in
the fifteenth century, because he annotated it in his own handwriting: his
name was Pomponio Leto and his corrections are recorded in Geymonat.

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RE: VIRGIL: Early Vergil printings and another request

2002-08-28 Thread Emma Guest
As the only (?) art historian on the list, I will do my best to find a
miniature bust of Poliziano.  Can I scan images and send them to the list?
I think we could all do with Angelo P. on our monitors!

Emma Guest-Consales

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At 11:35 AM 8/23/2002 -0400, I wrote:
>... the situation is hopeless for anything beyond the
>Carolingian period -- until c. 1470, when Virgil gets into print.

Looks like I spoke too soon. I've spent a couple of very happy days with
Venier, and among the many topics he deals with in _Per una storia del
testo di Virgilio nella prima eta\ del libro a stampa (1469-1519)_ is the
character of "la vulgata umanistica" in the fourteenth and fifteenth
centuries. Of special interest are the interpolated verses that do not
appear in Carolingian MSS. (including some verses that appear to derive, by
way of a composite vita, from Servius auctus). See ch. 1, Osservazioni
sulla tradizione manoscritta nei secoli XIV e XV.

On the subject of Venier's book more generally, I mentioned its appearance
in February and posted a translation of its contents (see below, with some
additions). My first impressions were positive, and now that I've actually
read the thing I'm happy to report that, on closer inspection, the book is
every bit as good as it looks (and it is a very handsome little paperback).
Needless to say, it's not a book for the incurious. Basically, it's an
attempt to identify the manuscripts that stand behind the early printed
editions. If this doesn't milk your goat, you should probably look
elsewhere for mental sustenance. If, on the other hand, you have a
miniature bust of Poliziano on your computer monitor, you will find much to
savor.


Matteo Venier, _Per una storia del testo di Virgilio nella prima eta\ del
libro a stampa (1469-1519)_ (Udine: Forum, 2001). xxii+158 pp.

Table of Contents:

Preface
Bibliographical abbreviations

1. Observations on the manuscript tradition in the 14th and 15th centuries
- Codices examined
- The "humanistic vulgate" [including the status of the Helen digression]
- MSS. with interpolations drawn from Servius
- MSS. copied from printed editions

2. Editions in print in the 15th century
- The editio princeps edited by Giovanni Andrea Bussi
- The Mentelin edition
- Editions derived from the first Roman printing
- The edition of Vindelinus de Spira and its progeny
- The second Roman printing: the Medici codex and the Pomponian variants
- The editions of Leonardus Achates

3. Virgil editions, 1500-1520
- The first Aldine
- The second Aldine
- The edition of Giovanni Battista Egnazio
- The Giunt edition edited by Benedetto Riccardini [includes a fun account
of where Riccardini got his info about the codex Romanus (Poliziano), how
he handled it (irresponsibly), and what Valeriano had to say about him
(nothing good)]
- The third Aldine and some observations on the formation of a system of
punctuation
- Conclusions
- Stemma of editions

Appendix I: Corrections to the app. crit. in current editions (Ribbeck,
Mynors, Geymonat)
Appendix II: On discrepancies between the first and second Giunt editions

Conspectus siglorum
Index of manuscripts
Index of Virgil editions
Index of names


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http://www.libroco.it but I haven't checked back since the spring. If
anyone knows where I can find a miniature bust of Poliziano, please email
me privately.

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Re: VIRGIL: Early Vergil printings and another request

2002-08-28 Thread Helen Conrad-O'Briain
This sounds exactly what we need here!
Thanks
Helen COB
On Wednesday, August 28, 2002, at 12:02 AM, David Wilson-Okamura wrote:
At 11:35 AM 8/23/2002 -0400, I wrote:
... the situation is hopeless for anything beyond the
Carolingian period -- until c. 1470, when Virgil gets into print.
Looks like I spoke too soon. I've spent a couple of very happy days with
Venier, and among the many topics he deals with in _Per una storia del
testo di Virgilio nella prima eta\ del libro a stampa (1469-1519)_ is 
the
character of "la vulgata umanistica" in the fourteenth and fifteenth
centuries. Of special interest are the interpolated verses that do not
appear in Carolingian MSS. (including some verses that appear to 
derive, by
way of a composite vita, from Servius auctus). See ch. 1, Osservazioni
sulla tradizione manoscritta nei secoli XIV e XV.

On the subject of Venier's book more generally, I mentioned its 
appearance
in February and posted a translation of its contents (see below, with 
some
additions). My first impressions were positive, and now that I've 
actually
read the thing I'm happy to report that, on closer inspection, the book 
is
every bit as good as it looks (and it is a very handsome little 
paperback).
Needless to say, it's not a book for the incurious. Basically, it's an
attempt to identify the manuscripts that stand behind the early printed
editions. If this doesn't milk your goat, you should probably look
elsewhere for mental sustenance. If, on the other hand, you have a
miniature bust of Poliziano on your computer monitor, you will find 
much to
savor.

Matteo Venier, _Per una storia del testo di Virgilio nella prima eta\ 
del
libro a stampa (1469-1519)_ (Udine: Forum, 2001). xxii+158 pp.

Table of Contents:
Preface
Bibliographical abbreviations
1. Observations on the manuscript tradition in the 14th and 15th 
centuries
- Codices examined
- The "humanistic vulgate" [including the status of the Helen 
digression]
- MSS. with interpolations drawn from Servius
- MSS. copied from printed editions

2. Editions in print in the 15th century
- The editio princeps edited by Giovanni Andrea Bussi
- The Mentelin edition
- Editions derived from the first Roman printing
- The edition of Vindelinus de Spira and its progeny
- The second Roman printing: the Medici codex and the Pomponian variants
- The editions of Leonardus Achates
3. Virgil editions, 1500-1520
- The first Aldine
- The second Aldine
- The edition of Giovanni Battista Egnazio
- The Giunt edition edited by Benedetto Riccardini [includes a fun 
account
of where Riccardini got his info about the codex Romanus (Poliziano), 
how
he handled it (irresponsibly), and what Valeriano had to say about him
(nothing good)]
- The third Aldine and some observations on the formation of a system of
punctuation
- Conclusions
- Stemma of editions

Appendix I: Corrections to the app. crit. in current editions (Ribbeck,
Mynors, Geymonat)
Appendix II: On discrepancies between the first and second Giunt 
editions

Conspectus siglorum
Index of manuscripts
Index of Virgil editions
Index of names
-- This book was available for purchase earlier this year at
http://www.libroco.it but I haven't checked back since the spring. If
anyone knows where I can find a miniature bust of Poliziano, please 
email
me privately.

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Re: VIRGIL: Early Vergil printings and another request

2002-08-27 Thread David Wilson-Okamura
At 11:35 AM 8/23/2002 -0400, I wrote:
>... the situation is hopeless for anything beyond the
>Carolingian period -- until c. 1470, when Virgil gets into print.

Looks like I spoke too soon. I've spent a couple of very happy days with
Venier, and among the many topics he deals with in _Per una storia del
testo di Virgilio nella prima eta\ del libro a stampa (1469-1519)_ is the
character of "la vulgata umanistica" in the fourteenth and fifteenth
centuries. Of special interest are the interpolated verses that do not
appear in Carolingian MSS. (including some verses that appear to derive, by
way of a composite vita, from Servius auctus). See ch. 1, Osservazioni
sulla tradizione manoscritta nei secoli XIV e XV. 

On the subject of Venier's book more generally, I mentioned its appearance
in February and posted a translation of its contents (see below, with some
additions). My first impressions were positive, and now that I've actually
read the thing I'm happy to report that, on closer inspection, the book is
every bit as good as it looks (and it is a very handsome little paperback).
Needless to say, it's not a book for the incurious. Basically, it's an
attempt to identify the manuscripts that stand behind the early printed
editions. If this doesn't milk your goat, you should probably look
elsewhere for mental sustenance. If, on the other hand, you have a
miniature bust of Poliziano on your computer monitor, you will find much to
savor.


Matteo Venier, _Per una storia del testo di Virgilio nella prima eta\ del
libro a stampa (1469-1519)_ (Udine: Forum, 2001). xxii+158 pp.

Table of Contents:

Preface
Bibliographical abbreviations

1. Observations on the manuscript tradition in the 14th and 15th centuries
- Codices examined
- The "humanistic vulgate" [including the status of the Helen digression]
- MSS. with interpolations drawn from Servius
- MSS. copied from printed editions

2. Editions in print in the 15th century
- The editio princeps edited by Giovanni Andrea Bussi
- The Mentelin edition
- Editions derived from the first Roman printing
- The edition of Vindelinus de Spira and its progeny
- The second Roman printing: the Medici codex and the Pomponian variants
- The editions of Leonardus Achates

3. Virgil editions, 1500-1520
- The first Aldine
- The second Aldine
- The edition of Giovanni Battista Egnazio
- The Giunt edition edited by Benedetto Riccardini [includes a fun account
of where Riccardini got his info about the codex Romanus (Poliziano), how
he handled it (irresponsibly), and what Valeriano had to say about him
(nothing good)]
- The third Aldine and some observations on the formation of a system of
punctuation
- Conclusions
- Stemma of editions

Appendix I: Corrections to the app. crit. in current editions (Ribbeck,
Mynors, Geymonat)
Appendix II: On discrepancies between the first and second Giunt editions

Conspectus siglorum
Index of manuscripts
Index of Virgil editions
Index of names


-- This book was available for purchase earlier this year at
http://www.libroco.it but I haven't checked back since the spring. If
anyone knows where I can find a miniature bust of Poliziano, please email
me privately.

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East Carolina UniversityVirgil reception, discussion, documents, &c
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Re: VIRGIL: Early Vergil printings and another request

2002-08-24 Thread Helen Conrad-O'Briain
Than you all very much for all the information, bibliography, and good 
advice.
Helen COB
On Friday, August 23, 2002, at 03:35 PM, David Wilson-Okamura wrote:

At 09:58 AM 8/23/2002 +0100, James Butrica wrote:
Some partial suggestions have been made for secondary sources on early
editions, but for a complete inventory of incunabula I suspect that you
would have to create your own from Hain and the other reference works
devoted to listing them (and even then you would ideally try to track 
down
copies of the editions, since these reference works sometimes contain
"ghost" editions that do not actually exist).
This work has now been done; see:
Davies, Martin, and John Goldfinch. _Vergil: A Census of Printed 
Editions
1469-1500_. Occasional Papers of the Bibliographical Society 7. London: 
The
Bibliographical Society, 1992.

There is even an appendix of probable ghosts!
As to affinities, I assume that you mean textual ones, and I suspect 
that
this would prove a dead end: if your interest is how the editions 
might be
related to the important early mss of Virgil, there is probably no
connection at all (some of those mss were certainly known to 
Renaissance
scholars like Pontano and Poliziano and Leto but I have never heard 
that
any of them was used for an early edition -- a good thing, too, since 
old
mss could simply get thrown away once they had served their purpose: 
one of
the Aldine editors destroyed a fifth-century uncial ms of Pliny's 
letters
after using it for his edition);
For modern editions, the most important codices are (according to E.
Courtney) as follows: Mediceus (Laurentian Lib. 39.1 and Vatican lat. 
3225
fol. 76), Romanus (Vatican lat. 3867), and Palatinus (Vatican, Pal. lat.
1631). Palatinus was in Heidelberg until 1618, and therefore had little 
or
no influence on Italian editions of Virgil's work in this period. Venier
now confirms that Mediceus was used in the second printed edition of
Virgil's works (1471). Mediceus and Romanus were also used by the most
important of Virgil's textual critics for this period, Pierius 
Valerianus,
on which see below.

 and if you mean their relationship to each
other and to the "vulgate" of the late 15th century, that would be
impossible to pursue since, to the best of my knowledge, no-one has
explored the Virgilian ms tradition beyond the Carolingian period 
(where it
is already hopelessly contaminated) and so no-one is really in a 
position
to say what was in the "vulgate" at any subsequent period, least of 
all in
Italy in the Renaissance.
I agree with James that the situation is hopeless for anything beyond 
the
Carolingian period -- until c. 1470, when Virgil gets into print. For
printed texts in the years 1470-1514, there is now a stemma in Venier 
(pp.
136-37). After that, I think you could safely derive a vulgate text from
one of the following:

(a) the Aldine octavos, which were endlessly pirated
(b) the apparatus criticus provided by the aforementioned Valerianus, 
which
was endlessly reprinted.


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Re: VIRGIL: Early Vergil printings and another request

2002-08-24 Thread Robert T. White
PE scripsit:
>I would like for some one on the list to give some advice about how to train
>ap students to gain not a 4 but get a 5 on the vergil ap exam. I would like
>it in lesson plans, tests, and quizzes.

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Re: VIRGIL: Early Vergil printings and another request

2002-08-24 Thread Padraic Emparan
I would like for some one on the list to give some advice about how to train
ap students to gain not a 4 but get a 5 on the vergil ap exam. I would like
it in lesson plans, tests, and quizzes.

--
>From: David Wilson-Okamura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: VIRGIL: Early Vergil printings and another request
>Date: Fri, Aug 23, 2002, 3:35 PM
>

> At 09:58 AM 8/23/2002 +0100, James Butrica wrote:
>>Some partial suggestions have been made for secondary sources on early
>>editions, but for a complete inventory of incunabula I suspect that you
>>would have to create your own from Hain and the other reference works
>>devoted to listing them (and even then you would ideally try to track down
>>copies of the editions, since these reference works sometimes contain
>>"ghost" editions that do not actually exist).
>
> This work has now been done; see:
>
> Davies, Martin, and John Goldfinch. _Vergil: A Census of Printed Editions
> 1469-1500_. Occasional Papers of the Bibliographical Society 7. London: The
> Bibliographical Society, 1992.
>
> There is even an appendix of probable ghosts!
>
>>As to affinities, I assume that you mean textual ones, and I suspect that
>>this would prove a dead end: if your interest is how the editions might be
>>related to the important early mss of Virgil, there is probably no
>>connection at all (some of those mss were certainly known to Renaissance
>>scholars like Pontano and Poliziano and Leto but I have never heard that
>>any of them was used for an early edition -- a good thing, too, since old
>>mss could simply get thrown away once they had served their purpose: one of
>>the Aldine editors destroyed a fifth-century uncial ms of Pliny's letters
>>after using it for his edition);
>
> For modern editions, the most important codices are (according to E.
> Courtney) as follows: Mediceus (Laurentian Lib. 39.1 and Vatican lat. 3225
> fol. 76), Romanus (Vatican lat. 3867), and Palatinus (Vatican, Pal. lat.
> 1631). Palatinus was in Heidelberg until 1618, and therefore had little or
> no influence on Italian editions of Virgil's work in this period. Venier
> now confirms that Mediceus was used in the second printed edition of
> Virgil's works (1471). Mediceus and Romanus were also used by the most
> important of Virgil's textual critics for this period, Pierius Valerianus,
> on which see below.
>
>>  and if you mean their relationship to each
>>other and to the "vulgate" of the late 15th century, that would be
>>impossible to pursue since, to the best of my knowledge, no-one has
>>explored the Virgilian ms tradition beyond the Carolingian period (where it
>>is already hopelessly contaminated) and so no-one is really in a position
>>to say what was in the "vulgate" at any subsequent period, least of all in
>>Italy in the Renaissance.
>
> I agree with James that the situation is hopeless for anything beyond the
> Carolingian period -- until c. 1470, when Virgil gets into print. For
> printed texts in the years 1470-1514, there is now a stemma in Venier (pp.
> 136-37). After that, I think you could safely derive a vulgate text from
> one of the following:
>
> (a) the Aldine octavos, which were endlessly pirated
> (b) the apparatus criticus provided by the aforementioned Valerianus, which
> was endlessly reprinted.
>
>
>
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Re: VIRGIL: Early Vergil printings and another request

2002-08-23 Thread David Wilson-Okamura
At 09:58 AM 8/23/2002 +0100, James Butrica wrote:
>Some partial suggestions have been made for secondary sources on early
>editions, but for a complete inventory of incunabula I suspect that you
>would have to create your own from Hain and the other reference works
>devoted to listing them (and even then you would ideally try to track down
>copies of the editions, since these reference works sometimes contain
>"ghost" editions that do not actually exist).

This work has now been done; see:

Davies, Martin, and John Goldfinch. _Vergil: A Census of Printed Editions
1469-1500_. Occasional Papers of the Bibliographical Society 7. London: The
Bibliographical Society, 1992.

There is even an appendix of probable ghosts!

>As to affinities, I assume that you mean textual ones, and I suspect that
>this would prove a dead end: if your interest is how the editions might be
>related to the important early mss of Virgil, there is probably no
>connection at all (some of those mss were certainly known to Renaissance
>scholars like Pontano and Poliziano and Leto but I have never heard that
>any of them was used for an early edition -- a good thing, too, since old
>mss could simply get thrown away once they had served their purpose: one of
>the Aldine editors destroyed a fifth-century uncial ms of Pliny's letters
>after using it for his edition); 

For modern editions, the most important codices are (according to E.
Courtney) as follows: Mediceus (Laurentian Lib. 39.1 and Vatican lat. 3225
fol. 76), Romanus (Vatican lat. 3867), and Palatinus (Vatican, Pal. lat.
1631). Palatinus was in Heidelberg until 1618, and therefore had little or
no influence on Italian editions of Virgil's work in this period. Venier
now confirms that Mediceus was used in the second printed edition of
Virgil's works (1471). Mediceus and Romanus were also used by the most
important of Virgil's textual critics for this period, Pierius Valerianus,
on which see below. 

>  and if you mean their relationship to each
>other and to the "vulgate" of the late 15th century, that would be
>impossible to pursue since, to the best of my knowledge, no-one has
>explored the Virgilian ms tradition beyond the Carolingian period (where it
>is already hopelessly contaminated) and so no-one is really in a position
>to say what was in the "vulgate" at any subsequent period, least of all in
>Italy in the Renaissance.

I agree with James that the situation is hopeless for anything beyond the
Carolingian period -- until c. 1470, when Virgil gets into print. For
printed texts in the years 1470-1514, there is now a stemma in Venier (pp.
136-37). After that, I think you could safely derive a vulgate text from
one of the following:

(a) the Aldine octavos, which were endlessly pirated
(b) the apparatus criticus provided by the aforementioned Valerianus, which
was endlessly reprinted.



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Re: VIRGIL: Early Vergil printings and another request

2002-08-23 Thread James Butrica
>Could someone suggest to an unreconstructed early medievalist a good
>discussion of incunabula Vergils?
>Might I also ask for suggestions on what passages the group would
>suggest for collation in a text of the Aeneid to establish possible
>affinities.
>Helen COB
>

Some partial suggestions have been made for secondary sources on early
editions, but for a complete inventory of incunabula I suspect that you
would have to create your own from Hain and the other reference works
devoted to listing them (and even then you would ideally try to track down
copies of the editions, since these reference works sometimes contain
"ghost" editions that do not actually exist).
As to affinities, I assume that you mean textual ones, and I suspect that
this would prove a dead end: if your interest is how the editions might be
related to the important early mss of Virgil, there is probably no
connection at all (some of those mss were certainly known to Renaissance
scholars like Pontano and Poliziano and Leto but I have never heard that
any of them was used for an early edition -- a good thing, too, since old
mss could simply get thrown away once they had served their purpose: one of
the Aldine editors destroyed a fifth-century uncial ms of Pliny's letters
after using it for his edition); and if you mean their relationship to each
other and to the "vulgate" of the late 15th century, that would be
impossible to pursue since, to the best of my knowledge, no-one has
explored the Virgilian ms tradition beyond the Carolingian period (where it
is already hopelessly contaminated) and so no-one is really in a position
to say what was in the "vulgate" at any subsequent period, least of all in
Italy in the Renaissance.

James L. P. Butrica
Department of Classics
The Memorial University of Newfoundland
St. John's NL  A1C 5S7
(709) 737-7914


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Re: VIRGIL: Early Vergil printings and another request

2002-08-23 Thread mykola zerov
dear Helen
thank u!
i love u!
V.

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Dear Leofranc,
 I knew you would come through!
Helen
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Re: VIRGIL: Early Vergil printings and another request

2002-08-23 Thread Helen Conrad-O'Briain
Dear Leofranc,
 I knew you would come through!
Helen
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Re: VIRGIL: Early Vergil printings and another request

2002-08-22 Thread Leofranc Holford-Strevens
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Helen Conrad-
O'Briain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
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>Could someone suggest to an unreconstructed early medievalist a good 
>discussion of incunabula Vergils?

Matteo Venier, _Per uns storia del testo di Virgilio nella prima età del
libro a stampa (1469-1419) (Udine: Forum, 2001), ch. 2; for Venice see
too Craig Kallendorff, _A Bibligraphy of Venetian Editions of Virgil,
1470-1599_ (Littera Antiqua, 3; Florence: Olschki, 1991), 17-52.

You might find something in Paola Casciano, 'L'edizione romana del 1471
di Virgilio di Sweynheym e Pannartz', in Massimo Miglo with P. Farenga
and A. Modigliani (ed.), _Scrittura biblioteche e stampa a Roma nel
Quattrocento: Atti del 2o seminario 6-8 maggio 1982_ (Vatican Cit:
Scuola Vaticana di Paleografia, Diplomatica e Archivistica, 1983),
653-68.

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