Manuscript traditions of the Greek classics

[Roger Pearse]

I've been collecting information on how the Greek classics get to us
-- lists of extant manuscripts, etc. It's by no means complete, but
still very interesting. It's here:

http://www.tertullian.org/rpearse/manuscripts/greek_classics.htm

I accidentally also got the transmission of the letters of St. Basil
the Great, so that's here for comparison:

http://www.tertullian.org/rpearse/manuscripts/basil_letters.htm

All the best,

Roger Pearse

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Roger Pearse wrote:

Nice, Roger,

Do you by any chance know which classics are unique to being saved
through the Myriobiblos of Saint Photius?

[Roger Pearse]

Not off-hand. But we can get a fair idea by looking at the online
text and seeing how many of the codices discuss now lost works (a lot
of them):

http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/photius_copyright/index.htm

His book is a series of reviews and long abstracts, tho.

[Matteo]

Great work!
i'd be curious to know what you've found about Herodotus; i used this
author very much in my investigation on greek tyrants.

Matteo

[Roger Pearse]

On 5 Jul, 20:45, Matteo <matteo.olivi...@tele2.it> wrote:
> Great work!
> i'd be curious to know what you've found about Herodotus; i used this
> author very much in my investigation on greek tyrants.

You're very kind. I don't have any information on Herodotus yet. I
wish I did.

[Roger Pearse]

On 5 Jul, 20:45, Matteo <matteo.olivi...@tele2.it> wrote:

> On Jul 1, 7:22 pm,Roger Pearse<roger.pea...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> > I've been collecting information on how the Greek classics get to us
> > -- lists of extant manuscripts, etc.  It's by no means complete, but
> > still very interesting.  It's here:
>
> >http://www.tertullian.org/rpearse/manuscripts/greek_classics.htm
>
> > I accidentally also got the transmission of the letters of St. Basil
> > the Great, so that's here for comparison:
>
> >http://www.tertullian.org/rpearse/manuscripts/basil_letters.htm
>

> Great work!
> i'd be curious to know what you've found about Herodotus; i used this
> author very much in my investigation on greek tyrants.

I've now updated that page with information on the mss of Herodotus.
There's a fair number of papyri (none before the 1st century AD), but
the usual collection of medieval codices really supply the text.

Now working on the Odyssey.