Re: VIRGIL: Virgil passages for comparison

[Leofranc Holford-Strevens]

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Helen 
Conrad-O'Briain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
What passages are generally used as test passages for manuscript 
affiliation for Vergil?  I have a list somewhere, but 1. I cannot  find 
it, and 2. I suspect it might not have been a list that was 
necessarily generally accepted.

At 08:40 PM 4/24/03 +0100, Helen COB wrote:
>What would the list suggest as passages to use for tests of text
>affiliations in manuscripts or early printed books ?

To which David replied:

>Matteo Venier uses the following passages in Per una storia del testo 
di
Virgilio nella prima età del libro a stampa (1469-1519):

- E 1.6, 8; G 1.1-200; A 5.484-600
- incomplete verses: A 2.614, 640, 767; 3.340, 661; 8.41; 10.284, 728, 
876)
- interpolated verses: G 4.338; A 2.76, 567-88; 3.204abc; 4.273, 528;
6.242, 289abcd, 702; 8.46; 9.29, 121, 529; 10.278, 872
- "interesting" verses from the standpoint of early printed editions: G
1.321, 336, 2.126-30, 168, 449-51, 523, etc.<

Is that what you meant?

Leofranc
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