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Parisinus Graecus 2957 e Vaticanus Urbinas Graecus 118: riflessioni intorno al rapporto stemmatico di due testimoni della tradizione lucianea

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Abstract

The article focuses on the stemmatic relationship between two recentiores codes of Lucian’s manuscript tradition: the Parisinus gr. 2957 (siglum N) and the supplement of the Vaticanus Urbinas gr. 118 (siglum i). The positions taken by contemporary and last-century scholars, in fact, show some ambiguities regarding the issue. Through the integral collation of four works (Dipsades, Herodotus sive Aetion, Zeuxis sive Antiochus e Pro lapsu inter salutandum), an attempt is made to shed light. The conclusion we have come to is that i is not directly descended from N. The demonstration is also supported by an additional textual datum from the spurious work Asinus. Both manuscripts, in fact, bear a censored version of this text, but the censorship does not occur in exactly the same way. Finally, an attempt is made to propose a stemma codicum that can synthesize all the collected textual data, in which N-i descends from a common lost witness, named β5.


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Presentato: 12 Settembre 2024 | Accettato: 23 Gennaio 2025 | Pubblicato 26 Giugno 2025 | Lingua: it

Keywords Lucian of SamosataTextual criticismAsinusParisinus Gr2957Vaticanus Urbinas Gr118