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The ‘Codex Leidensis’ of Livy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

J. F. Dobson
J. F. Dobson
Affiliation:
The University, Manchester.
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Extract

For the purposes of the new text of Livy which Professor Conway and Professor C. F. Walters are preparing for the Oxford Series of Classical Texts, I undertook in 1908 to examine the Codex Leidensis, which contains Livy's first decade.

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Research Article
Information
The Classical Quarterly , Volume 4 , Issue 1 , January 1910 , pp. 38 - 46
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1910

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page 38 note 1 ‘Codex Membranaceus XI.-XII. saec’ (MS. note by a modern librarian inside cover oj the MS. itself.)

page 39 note 1 The dotted y is of common occurrence in MSS. of this period.

Here H omits unice————urbis.

page 39 note 3 Mentioned in letters of Q. Aurelius Symmachus (end of fourth cent. A.D.).

page 40 note 1 Dianu, in his study of Codex Thuaneus (Introduction, p. 6), notes that this division into half decades was not infrequent.

page 40 note 2 Lindsay (Contractions in early Latin minuscule MSS.) mentions ẽ, eẽ, and eẽt as Notae Juris—really preminuscule contractions, which were gradually superseded.

page 40 note 3 At the bottom of fol. 56 (verso):

Titi Li Vii Nicomachvs Dextervm Emndari Ad Exemplvm Parentis Mei Clementiani Ab Vrbe Cond Victorianvs Emendabam Domnis Simmachis Liber. V. Explicit.

At the top of fol. 57 (recto):

Titi Livii Tincomachvs Dextervm Emendari Ad Exemplv *** Parentis Mei Clementiani Ab Vrbe Cond Victorianvs Emendabam Domnis Symmss.) Machis. Liber Qvintvs Explicit.

Incipit Liber VI.

page 40 note 4 Professor Walters has noted the same dislocation in D at this point; but it does not appear in H, nor has it been noted in any other MS., though there is some evidence of corruption: vide Drak.'s note, cited in Table C, ad loc.

page 41 note 1 ‘Ipsi haud dubie inter bonos et praestantes L1, et H1, qui quam sint cognati ex eiusmodi mendis communibus nee ad ullos praeterea propagatis intelligi potest.’ Drak. vol. vii. pp. 321–322. Drakenborch, writing in 1746, computed the age of H at seven or eight centuries, and of L at six or seven centuries, and he ranks L as second only to the Florentinus (M), vide Drak., loc. cit. H is now assigned by the British Museum authorities to the tenth century, L by the Leiden authorities to the eleventh or twelfth century.

page 42 note 1 For an account of the chief MSS. referred to, see Professor Walters’ article in the Classical Quarterly, July, 1908.