The Elder Pliny's Chapters On The History Of Art - Softcover

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The text printed in the following pages is based upon that of Detlefsen, but free use has been made of both earlier and later critical auxiliaries. We differ from Detlefsen mainly in adhering more closely to the Codex Bambergensis, whose superiority in respect of those parts of the Historia now reproduced must be regarded as incontestable. Our short critical apparatus is limited to notices of our deviations from Detlefsen, or of readings offering special interest or difficulty. For brevitys sake the name of Detlefsen stands in our apparatus not only for his own readings but also for those of the scholars whose views he adopts. In none but a few important cases do we print Detlefsen ssources. I have to thank Mr. Fischer of Bamberg for kindly verifying a number of readings in theB ambergensis, and Dr. Leitschuh, Chief Librarian at Bamberg, for permission to reproduce in facsimile a page of the famous codex. The present text has been prepared under the guidance of Dr. Ludwig Traube, who, moreover, has generously placed at our disposal a number of his own readings or conjectures. Out of the many problems which even this short selection from the Historia Naturalis offers, the Introduction professes to deal only with the question of Pliny sG reek sources for the history of art; it touches upon his Roman authorities only in so far as these were the channel through which the Greek authors reached him.
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