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SEVERYNS, A., Texte et apparat. Histoire critique d'une tradition imprimée. Palais des Académies, Bruxelles, 1962. 2 parts. 374,XIIp. Sewn / wire stitched. Series: Académie Royale de Belgique, Classe des Lettres, Mémoires, Tome LVI, fasc. 2. (Rare). 'Severyns’ purpose is to produce the history of the printed text of the fragments (of Proclus’ lost ‘Chrestomathy’), a ‘stemma editionum’, as he calls it, instead of a ‘stemma codicum’ which he has already published (…) (1953). His own critical text of the fragments, reprinted from vol.3 of the ‘Recherches’, forms a removable pamphlet of twelve pages, inserted in the present volume in order that the reader may more easily look up the countless references to the Greek that are found in the body of the work. (…) The present volume, after a brief ‘propos luminaire: outrages et canticles cités en abrégé’, and an ‘Avant-propos’(…) is divided into three main parts: (1) ‘Entrée en matière’ (pp.17-68; (2) ‘Texte, définitions, et plan’ (69-241); (3) ‘Apparat’ (242-357). Then follow three fold-out pages containing ‘stemmata editionum’ for ‘Vita’, ‘Cypria’, and ‘Cetera’; a fourth fold-out page giving a chronological list of the 31 editions, together with their contents and sources (handwritten copies taken directly from the Mss of Homer or copies taken from previous editions); a fifth fold-out page, containing a list of the relevant 14 Mss of Homer, with a concordance of editor’s sigla. At the end of the volume are indices. Almost all the 21 chapters offer convenient summaries or conclusions. (…). The ‘Fragmenta Procli’, printed in handome Greek typing (…) amount to 330 lines. (…) This is a highly unusual, if not unique, study, the like of which I have never before encountered. (…) Severyns, with the aid of three young collaborators, has assembled an enormous mass of material which he has organized with extreme care.’ (F.M. CAREY in The Classical Journal, 1964, pp.235-238). € 89.50 (Antiquarian)