The Textual Tradition Of Plato's Republic (mnemosyne Bibliotheca Classica Batava Supplementum, 107)

THE TEXTUAL TRADITION OF PLATO'S REPUBLIC 3 CONTENTS 7 Preface 11 Note to the reader 13 Index siglorum 15 Stemmas of the A-, D- and F-families 17 Introduction: Method of research 19 PART ONE STATUS QUAESTIONIS 29 PART TWO THE GREEK DIRECT TRADITION 51 Chapter One: Description of Manuscripts 53 Chapter Two: The primary Manuscripts 93 I. The relationship of ADF 93 1. The source of ADF 93 2. ADF are independent of each other 94 3. D and F derive from a common source 98 4. When did ADF part company 105 5. Contamination in ADF 106 II. The individual primary Manuscripts 108 1. A 108 2. D 119 3. F 127 Chapter Three: Affiliation of Manuscripts 139 I. The A-family 139 II. The D-family 197 III. The F-family 218 Chapter Four: The secondary Manuscripts 229 1. β 231 2. Vind.Bon.Sc. 242 3. Vind.Bon. 244 4. Sc. 245 5. Par. 250 6. TMγ 253 7. Mγ 253 8. N 259 9. VMatr. 262 10. αt 263 11. xrec. 265 12. Par.rec. 267 13. Other Manuscripts 268 Chapter Five: The sixteenth-century editions and Cornarius' Eclogae 270 1. The Aldine edition 270 2. The first Basie edition 273 3. The second Basie edition 273 4. Cornarius' Eclogae 274 5. Stephanus' edition 275 Chapter Six: The papyri 280 PART THREE THE TRANSLATIONS 287 Chapter Seven: The fifteenth-century Latin translations 289 1. The Chrysoloras-Uberto translation 289 2. The translation by Pier Candido Decembrio 293 3. The translation by Antonio Cassarino 296 4. Ficino's translation 298 Chapter Eight: Translations into languages other than Latin 307 I. Coptic translation 307 II. Other languages 308 1. Arabic 308 2. Persian 308 3. Hebrew 308 PART FOUR THE INDIRECT TRADITION 311 I. Some general remarks on the indirect tradition 313 1. The Greek tradition 313 a. Direct quotations 313 b. References, imitations, etc. 314 c. The value of the Greek tradition 314 2. The Latin tradition 315 a. Direct quotations 315 b. Verbatim translations 315 c. References, imitations, etc. 315 3. The Arabic tradition 316 II. Index testimoniorum 318 III. Index auctorum Platonis Rempublicam laudantium 394 Bibliography 405 Index locorum potiorum 410