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The Codex Bambergensis of the First Decade of Livy (I.-VII. 17)

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I Examined this MS. at Bamberg in the Christmas vacation of 1912-13 for the purposes of the forthcoming critical edition of Livy by Professor Conway and Professor Walters. In 1856 H. W. Heerwagen described it, and published a collation of the first book. Apart from that it has been until now neglected. Bekker had it sent to him at Leipzig about 1830 for the purposes of his text: on its way back it fell into Kreyssig's hands (see the latter's preface to his edition of Book XXXIII.), but neither of them seems to have made any use of it. It was collated by J. G. Seebode in 1835–8 (as is recorded on the flyleaf); but no results were published. It is, however, curious that Weissenborn in his second edition (1859), though quoting Heerwagen as his sole source of information about the MS., which he calls B, cites its readings regularly not only in Book I., but in Book II. also, up to c. 22; after this I only four or five scattered readings are cited. The source from which he ascertained these are not known; in any case, they are few and unimportant. Conway and Walterś apparatus will contain the first account of the MS. I ever given which approaches completeness. It has now been examined at every point where any of the other MSS. show any variation of the least importance from one another, or where the text has been for any other reason the subject of discussion.

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Research Article
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The Classical Quarterly , Volume 8 , Issue 4 , October 1914 , pp. 248 - 253
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1914

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References

1 Sollemnia Anniversaria in Gymnasio Regio Baruthino, Baruthi, 1856.

2 Preface, pp. lxxvi, xcii.

3 I have noted the following errors: ii. 5. I,he cites B as reading ibi, whereas it omits all from 2. 8 to 5. 3 (v. inf.): ii. 5. 10 he give's B's reading as uindicias, where it is really uindiciae.

4 Traube gives further details, partly con-jectnral, of the romantic history of these works, which seem to have been collected by John,Bishop of Placentia (Anti-Pope in 997, and then put to death by Otto); Traube supposes John to have been formerly Otto's tutor. They de scend to (St.) Heinrich II., whose name is great in the history of Bamberg: he bequeathed his library to the chapter on his death in 1024.

1 They are: I. 5. 6, 18. 9, 19. 6, 23. 9, II. 6. 2, 6. 4, 61. 3, III. 11. 11, 12. 4 (bis), 14.6, 16. 4, 18. 3, 18. 11, 28. 9, 29. 5, 34. 8, 35. 2 (bis), 35. 5, 35. 7, 40. 12, 48. 1, 49. 3, 51. 8, 52. 2, IV. 2. 7, 3. 12, 6. 3, 7. 1, 7. 7, 13. 2, 15. 7, 19. 2, 58. 13, 59. 6, 61. 4, V. 3. 4, 4. 8, 6. 7, 36. 9, 40. 4, 44. 1, 53. 2, VI. 1. 3, 13. 7, 18. I, 42. 2, 42. 14.

1 I. 11. 8, 17. 2, 28. 4, 56. 1, 56. 11, II. 10. 5, 18. 3, 18. 11, 24. 5, 27. 2, 34. 12, 39. 3, 52. 5, III. 9. 1, 11. 12, 12. 4, 12. 5, 19. 1, 45. 2, 56. 9,IV. 2. 3, 2. 11 (bis), 2. 13, 3. 10, 7. 9–10, 12. 8,13. 13, 19. 2, 58. 6, V. 18. 1, 27. 11, 47. 2, 47. 7,47. 9, VI. 2. 10.

2 See their article, C. Q. v. (1911), p. 5.