New-and-Ancient Readings, Distributed into a Hundred Letters and More

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Original title: Novantiquae lectiones, tributae in epistolas centum et quod excurrit A Latin philological miscellany cast as a sequence of more than one hundred learned letters addressed to named correspondents in Germany, the Low Countries, France, Italy, and Spain. Each epistle treats textual problems in classical and late antique authors — Silius Italicus above all, together with Censorinus, Hyginus, Macrobius, Fulgentius, Cicero, Seneca, Martial, Lucan, Statius, Pliny, Ovid, Tacitus, Livy, and Valerius Maximus — proposing emendations, supplements, athetesis of spurious verses, and punctuation, chiefly on the authority of parchment manuscripts collated against printed editions, with the provenance of each codex and the name of its lender recorded. Alongside the textual criticism the letters carry antiquarian discussions (such as the location of the Ara Ubiorum at Bonn and the Roman secular games), accounts of the author's searches through monastic and cathedral libraries of Flanders and the Rhineland, invective against printing-house correctors and monastic interpolators, arguments on the spuriousness of the Seneca–Paul correspondence, obituaries, consolations, funeral elegies, and epigrams. The volume opens with a dedication to Erasmus Neustetter, called Stürmer, provost of Comburg, includes commendatory verse, and closes with a threefold index and a leaf of corrigenda. It was printed at Frankfurt am Main by the heirs of André Wechel. 👉 Read our introductory primer, full report, and finding guide here 📜 View the original source file This text was transcribed and translated as part of the ExLatinis project—an effort by Leo to make English translations of every published text in Latin in early modern Europe (between 1450 and 1750) available to the public for free online.

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