Cattle, horses and other livestock: textual notes on Columella, books 6 and 7
Robert H. Rodgers
Editorial challenges in Books 6 and 7 of Columella's Res rustica differ to a degree from those faced much the remainder treatise.1 Our text this work relies upon two closely related Carolingian codices balanced unevenly against remnants an independent tradition available some forty-odd fifteenth-century manuscripts. Both ninth-century witnesses are north Alps: St Petersburg, Class. Lat. F.v.i (— S, s.ix3/4, written at Corbie) Milan, Ambros. L.8j sup. (= A, s. ix2/4, Fulda); S is more careful copy. The later manuscripts (conventionally lumped gether as R, recentiores) were all produced Italy; these derive partly A (which was brought Italy fifteenth century), source dependent SA. defective incomplete manuscript, long since lost but not before its value had been recognized for useful important improvements that be incorporated into full unabridged Columella lately become with arrival A. It unfortunate no manuscript R group offers anything re sembling pure version lay ancestry. authenticity any reading compromised by pervasive funda mental contamination on one hand, other patent intervention deliberate conjectural activity (badly needed, sure) part Renaissance readers.2 What unequivocally establishes worth presence genuine material wanting But na
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