Five Fragments of Cicero’s Letters Ad familiares

  • Michael D. Reeve Cambridge University

Abstract

Three fragments of Cicero’s letters Ad familiares assigned in 1857 and 1867 to the 12th century or earlier have been thought to shed light on the corrections made by Salutati and Niccoli in P (the manuscript written for Salutati in 1392), and two more perhaps connected with these three have since emerged. The evidence is reappraised, and in relation to the corrections in P other strands of tradition attested in 15th-century Italy are discussed. Pending collation of manuscripts written between 1392 and Niccoli’s death in 1437, L. Mendelssohn’s view can stand: when not conjectures, the corrections in P came directly or indirectly from its exemplar, the 9th-century manuscript M. 

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Author Biography

Michael D. Reeve, Cambridge University

Michael D. Reeve (mdr1000@cam.ac.uk) retired in 2007 from the Kennedy Professorship of Latin, Cambridge, and is an emeritus fellow of Exeter College Oxford and Pembroke College Cambridge. His work on the transmission of Latin texts includes Manuscripts and methods (Rome 2011) and The transmission of Pliny’s “Natural history” (Rome 2021) as well as entries on Cicero and other writers in L. D. Reynolds (ed.), Texts and transmission (Oxford 1983), and many articles and reviews published since 1973.

Published
2024-06-30
How to Cite
Reeve, M. D. (2024). Five Fragments of Cicero’s Letters Ad familiares. Ciceroniana On Line, 8(1), 9-25. https://doi.org/10.13135/2532-5353/10899