CATULLUS 68 - Scuola Normale Superiore

SIGLA
Reconstructed manuscripts
X The common ancestor of G and R 14 th c.
A The common ancestor of O and X 14 th c.
V The ancestor of A late 13 th c.?
Primary manuscripts
O Oxoniensis Canonicianus class. lat. 30 14 th c.
G Parisinus bibl. nat. 14137, olim Sangermanensis 1375
R Vaticanus Ottobonianus lat. 1829 between 1375 and 1392 (1390-92?)
R 2 the hand of Lino Coluccio Salutati, who after R, and before 1407
commissioned and corrected R
Secondary manuscripts
Three types of abbreviations are used for these:
- m for an early copy of R (see p. 75);
- the Greek letters α-θ for two manuscripts and six groups of manuscripts from the 15 th century, each of which contain
a group of humanistic emendations (see p. 79);
- underlined numerals in all other cases, corresponding to the number of each manuscript in the catalogue assembled
by Thomson (see p. 79).
α = 8
β = 78
γ = 1 38 40 56 73 103
δ = 3 59 84
ε = 10 49 59
ζ = 28 45 46
η = 42 75 107 108 116 118 122 128
θ = 48 52 66 85 90
m = 115
1 Austin, Texas – Humanities Research Center 32. 1451
3 Berlin – Deutsche Staatsbibliothek Diez. B. Sant. 36. 1450-60?
4 Berlin – Deutsche Staatsbibliothek Diez. B. Sant. 37. 1463
7 Berlin – Deutsche Staatsbibliothek Diez. B. Sant. 56 1481
8 Bologna – Biblioteca universitaria 2621. 1412
10 Brescia – Biblioteca civica Queriniana A VII 7. ca. 1455-60?
12 Carpentras – Bibliothèque Inguimbertine 361. 1440-50?
13 Cesena – Biblioteca Malatestiana 29 sin. 19 1474
14 Cologny (Geneva) – Biblioteca Bodmeriana Bodmer 49 ca. 1495
17 Edinburgh – National Library of Scotland Adv. 18.5.2 1495
23 Firenze – Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana plut. 36.23. ca. 1425
24 Firenze – Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana Ashburnhamensis 260 ca. 1500?
28 Firenze – Biblioteca Nazionale Magl. VII 1158 1460-70
30 Firenze – Biblioteca Nazionale Incunab. Magl. A 3 39. notes added in 1522 181
31 Firenze – Biblioteca Riccardiana 606. in or just before 1457 182
181 This is a copy of Calphurnius’ 1481 Vicenza edition that was annotated by Bernardus Pisanus in 1522 with the help of
F[ranciscus] Puccius’ much-emended copy of the book (thus the subscriptio on fol. 28v). Puccius’ emendations date back to 1502
(see Thomson 1997: 88, on no. 119).
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