Scribes and Scholars : A Guide to the Transmission of Greek and Latin Literature

by: Reynolds, L.D. Wilson, N.G.

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its authors have fulfilled with striking success their aim to produce 'a simple introduction for beginners to the process by which Greek and Latin literature have been preserved.' They have dealt with all the essentials of this vast subject, and with the rudiments of textural criticis, in five very readable chapters, and their book deserves to be lastingly popular (.).' (P.E. EASTERLING in The Journal of Hellenic Studies). The second edition has a section with notes for the advanced students, and there is an additional chapter on some aspects of scholarship since the Renaissance.

Subjects:
History
Learning and scholarship
Learning and scholarship History
Savoir et érudition Histoire
Transmission de textes
Transmission of texts

x, 275 pages, xvi pages of plates : illustrations, facsimiles ; 21 cm
 

Scribes and Scholars : A Guide to the Transmission of Greek and Latin Literature

by: Reynolds, L.D. Wilson, N.G.

• ISBN-13: 9780198143727 / 978-0-19-814372-7
• ISBN-03: 0198143729 / 0-19-814372-9
• Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1986

Price: 39,00 EURO

1 copy in stock