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Part 6
WRITINGS ON PRE-RENAISSANCE TEXTS
(For comments on the scope of this list, see the Preface;
for additional writings of general theoretical significance, see Part 7 below.)
1557
Francesco Robortello, De arte siue ratione corrigendi antiquorum libros disputatio (1557).
1597
Gaspar Scioppius, De arte critica, & praecipue de alterâ ejus parte emendatrice (1597, 1662).
1681
Jean Mabillon, De re diplomatica (1681). [See also under 1990 below.]
1691
Richard Bentley, Epistola ad Joannem Millium (1691). [For discussion of Bentley and the English textual
criticism of his time, see Douglas (1939), Fox (1954), and Brink (1986) below. For earlier textual
criticism, see Botfield (1861).]
1697
Richard Bentley, A Dissertation upon the Epistles of Phalaris (1697, 1699).
1721
Richard Bentley, Dr. Bentley's Proposals for a New Edition of the Greek Testament (1721).
1766
J.-B. Morel, Éléments de critique, ou recherches des différentes causes de l'altération des textes latins
avec les moyens d'en rendre la lecture plus facile (1766).
1775
Edward Harwood, A View of the Various Editions of the Greek and Roman Classics (1775).
1790
Richard Porson, Letters to Mr. Archdeacon Travis (1790).
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