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[ SOLD OUT ] REYNOLDS, L.D., (ed.), Texts and Transmission. A Survey of the Latin Classics. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1983. XLVIII,509p. Original blue gilt titled cloth with dust wrps. Small damage to lower part dust wrps. Dust wrps partly a bit discoloured. Else fine. May require extra shipping costs: weight including packing from 1 - 2 Kg. ‘For the most part (….) the variety of approaches and the different emphases of the articles can only be salutary; and although someone who consults only individual articles may occasionally be disappointed, anyone who reads the whole book will not only learn a great deal but will also receive a demonstration of various approaches to textual criticism and textual history. The six major contributors (…) are Reeve, Reynolds, R.J. Tarrant, Rouse, Winterbottom, and Marshall. They have all given examples of lucid, even elegant research that is impressive not only for its accuracy of detail but also for the number of original contributions and suggestions for further research. ’T&T’ is no mere handbook; it stands as an assessment and survey of the state of research on the transmission of Latin literature in the Middle Ages. (…) Reynolds, whose contributions (to my mind) most nearly approach the ideal, keeps the geographical diffusion and intellectual context of manuscripts constantly before the reader; he maintains a remarkable balance between necessary and significant details on the one hand and broader considerations on the other. (…) ’T&T contains numerous indications of the changes that have occurred in the last few generation in the study of textual transmissions; the constant acknowledgement of the assistance of the great Latin paleographers, Particularly Bischoff and A.C. de la Mare, is only one of them. (…) What is important here is evidence of the presence of an ancient book as a guide not only to the reconstruction of the history of a text, but as a worthwhile piece of medieval intellectual history in its own right. (…) The contributors to this volume pay a great deal of attention to the later transmission of texts, particularly among the humanists, even in cases where their manuscripts are of little of no importance for recension. (…) The contributors are concerned, beyond the individual manuscript, with collections and collectors of books: the catalogs of monasteries, and the individuals who assembled libraries, or had them created, people who not only copied and owned but even read ancient texts. (…) It will be a source of instruction and pleasure for years to come.’ (JAMES E.G. ZETZEL in Classical Philology, 1986, pp.270-74). From the library of Professor Carl Deroux. (Antiquarian) (approx. delivery time: undeliverable) ISBN: 9780198144564