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NOTES ON THEODORUS PRODROMUS RHODANTHE AND DOSICLES AND NICETAS EUGENIANUS DROSILLA AND CHARICLES

NOTES ON THEODORUS PRODROMUS RHODANTHE AND DOSICLES AND NICETAS EUGENIANUS DROSILLA AND CHARICLES NOTES ON THEODORUS PRODROMUS RHODANTHEANDDOSICLES AND NICETAS E U G E N I A N U S DROSILLA AND CHAWCLES* R. D. DAWE / CAMBRIDGE In the library of Trinity College, Cambridge, listed as II 7.95, there is a copy of Gaulmin's edition of Theodorus Prodromos's verse romance known as the story of Rhodanthe and Dosicles. This book was printed in Paris in 1625, and Trinity's copy was bequeathed to it by James Duport (1606-1679). Gaulrnin's was the editio princeps, and before Miroslav Marcovich's edition for Teubner (Stuttgart and Leipzig 1992) the only other was the one included in volume two of Hercher's Erotici Scriptores Graeci (Leipzig 1859). The Trinity copy contains in its margins occasional suggestions written in a hand and an ink which point to the seventeenth century, but comparison with an authentic specimen of Duport's writing makes it unlikely that he was their author. Our anonymous critic would have had only Gaulmin's edition to work from, and no other manuscripts were brought to bear to fill in gaps which Gaulmin had had to mark. Some of the marginalia anticipate corrections later made by Hercher and Marcovich; others restore by conjecture readings which we now know http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Byzantinische Zeitschrift de Gruyter

NOTES ON THEODORUS PRODROMUS RHODANTHE AND DOSICLES AND NICETAS EUGENIANUS DROSILLA AND CHARICLES

DAWE, R. D.
Byzantinische Zeitschrift , Volume 94 (1) – Jan 1, 2001
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Copyright © 2009 Walter de Gruyter
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10.1515/byzs.2001.94.1.11
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NOTES ON THEODORUS PRODROMUS RHODANTHEANDDOSICLES AND NICETAS E U G E N I A N U S DROSILLA AND CHAWCLES* R. D. DAWE / CAMBRIDGE In the library of Trinity College, Cambridge, listed as II 7.95, there is a copy of Gaulmin's edition of Theodorus Prodromos's verse romance known as the story of Rhodanthe and Dosicles. This book was printed in Paris in 1625, and Trinity's copy was bequeathed to it by James Duport (1606-1679). Gaulrnin's was the editio princeps, and before Miroslav Marcovich's edition for Teubner (Stuttgart and Leipzig 1992) the only other was the one included in volume two of Hercher's Erotici Scriptores Graeci (Leipzig 1859). The Trinity copy contains in its margins occasional suggestions written in a hand and an ink which point to the seventeenth century, but comparison with an authentic specimen of Duport's writing makes it unlikely that he was their author. Our anonymous critic would have had only Gaulmin's edition to work from, and no other manuscripts were brought to bear to fill in gaps which Gaulmin had had to mark. Some of the marginalia anticipate corrections later made by Hercher and Marcovich; others restore by conjecture readings which we now know

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