The Textual Tradition of Plato's Republic (Mnemosyne Bibliotheca Classica Batava Supplementum, 107)

THE TEXTUAL TRADITION OF PLATO'S REPUBLIC 4 CONTENTS 8 Preface 12 Note to the reader 14 Index siglorum 16 Stemmas of the A-, D- and F-families 18 Introduction: Method of research 20 PART ONE STATUS QUAESTIONIS 30 PART TWO THE GREEK DIRECT TRADITION 52 Chapter One: Description of Manuscripts 54 Chapter Two: The primary Manuscripts 94 I. The relationship of ADF 94 1. The source of ADF 94 2. ADF are independent of each other 95 3. D and F derive from a common source 99 4. When did ADF part company 106 5. Contamination in ADF 107 II. The individual primary Manuscripts 109 1. A 109 2. D 120 3. F 128 Chapter Three: Affiliation of Manuscripts 140 I. The A-family 140 II. The D-family 198 III. The F-family 219 Chapter Four: The secondary Manuscripts 230 1. β 232 2. Vind.Bon.Sc. 243 3. Vind.Bon. 245 4. Sc. 246 5. Par. 251 6. TMγ 254 7. Mγ 254 8. N 260 9. VMatr. 263 10. αt 264 11. xrec. 266 12. Par.rec. 268 13. Other Manuscripts 269 Chapter Five: The sixteenth-century editions and Cornarius' Eclogae 271 1. The Aldine edition 271 2. The first Basie edition 274 3. The second Basie edition 274 4. Cornarius' Eclogae 275 5. Stephanus' edition 276 Chapter Six: The papyri 281 PART THREE THE TRANSLATIONS 288 Chapter Seven: The fifteenth-century Latin translations 290 1. The Chrysoloras-Uberto translation 290 2. The translation by Pier Candido Decembrio 294 3. The translation by Antonio Cassarino 297 4. Ficino's translation 299 Chapter Eight: Translations into languages other than Latin 308 I. Coptic translation 308 II. Other languages 309 1. Arabic 309 2. Persian 309 3. Hebrew 309 PART FOUR THE INDIRECT TRADITION 312 I. Some general remarks on the indirect tradition 314 1. The Greek tradition 314 a. Direct quotations 314 b. References, imitations, etc. 315 c. The value of the Greek tradition 315 2. The Latin tradition 316 a. Direct quotations 316 b. Verbatim translations 316 c. References, imitations, etc. 316 3. The Arabic tradition 317 II. Index testimoniorum 319 III. Index auctorum Platonis Rempublicam laudantium 395 Bibliography 406 Index locorum potiorum 411