CLA260H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Carolingian Minuscule, Palaeography, Century Gothic

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11 Sep 2012
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9th century development of carolingian script: eventually developed into gothic (black letter) script, gothic spread throughout europe from 12th century - 17th century and continued in germany to copies. Short hands - using symbol to replace word (i. e. & symbol) Seneca collected various notae from his time: e. g. Stenna codicum = family tree of manuscripts: contamination can happen, copying from two manuscripts, someone later cam along and corrected one group of manuscripts, once you have stenna you can try and work backwards to omega text. Case study - the helen episode (alain: question of authenticity, wrongly though not written by virgil - ascribed to later scribe, called interpolation. Problems with poetic style, suspicious absence in authoritative textual witnesses: almost all modern commentators believe virgil would not have included it in his final draft - July 16/12 though died before he could finish the aenid: ancient sources pass over the helen episode.

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