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Manilian Varieties

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

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Since P. Thielscher, in Philologus, 1907, pp. 117, 128, supplies us with information about the Manilian MS. Palatinus 1711 (P), the importance of which he himself does not seem to comprehend, I should like to point out what an interesting MS. this is. ‘It is to be suspected,’ says Thielscher, ‘that it offers interpolated readings.’ It is not a matter of ‘suspicion’ at all. If Thielscher did not know it for himself, he could have learnt from Scaliger (1600), from Bentley, from Jacob, that the readings of P long ago received sufficient publicity to enable scholars to assign it to the ‘ interpolated’ class of MSS. The Variae Lectiones of Junius (1589) is mostly occupied with the readings of P, and tells us all about P that we need know, save what Thielscher has himself added. From Thielscher we for the first time learn that P belonged to ‘Johannes Archiepiscopus Strigoniensis,’ and that it contains this subscription: ‘legi et emendaui cum magistro Galeotto 1469.’ Now just as Thielscher seems to know nothing of Junius, so he seems to have no idea who Johannes Strigoniensis is, though the reference to Galeotto and the year 1469 should at once have told him. If he had troubled to look at Schmitt's Archiepiscopi he would have found that, while Schmitth enumerates no less than six archbishops of Gran who bore the name John, yet the only one of them who fits the date 1469 is John IV. And John IV. is a famous person, being none other than that leader of the Hungarian Renaissance whom we commonly call Vitezius.

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Copyright © The Classical Association 1909

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page 55 note 1 Or again to the Bodleian and Corpus MSS. to which Parisinus is closely related

page 55 note 2 The form ‘Manlius’ alone has MS. attestation ‘Manilius’ comes from the 17th century editions, and was no doubt a deliberate attempt to identify the ‘ De Astrologia’ with M. Manili Astrono-mica

page 55 note 3 Nodes Manilianae, p. 229.

page 55 note 4 Martianus without Capella occurs also in Gerbert, Epp. 153, p. 135, Havet.

page 58 note 1 1t take this opportunity of saying that it is a MSpubwhich no editor of the epistolary literature of the lished. Voigt, who mentions it, imagines that it Italian Renaissance can afford to neglect. Let me give one convincing proof of this. Poggii, Epp. i. I.Tonellis ends thus in Bodl.: salutato: simul et Cosmam (sic) saluere dicito et sibille tritee. Ex minor variants, the allusion to the ' Tritean Sibyl'is quite new, and funijs confirms a conjecture of t p 3, 1. 18, ed. Tonell., Bodl. has Raiserthuos, Another Bodleian MS. of 14th century Italian letters which perhaps deserves attention is Can.Misc. 351. It contains Guarino's letter to Poggio on the relative greatness of Caesar and Scipio-a letter which has, so far as I know, never been pubwhichlished. Voigt, who mentions it, imagines that it contained considerable abuse of Poggio. As a matter of fact, its tone of studied politeness is its most note worthy feature. (A fragment of a sentence of it isby H. Blass in his paper on the MSS. of chwabe's Catullus. But I cannot find that anyone has printed the whole letter.)

page 58 note 2 which does not appear in Breiter At p 3, 1. 18, ed. Tonell., Bodl. has Raiserthuos, at all; but from the silence of all editors I infer that pointing clearly to KaisexAuhl. this line is found in GLM.H, it should be added, constantly leaves blank spaces for words which puzzled its scribe. Examples are too numerous to notice