Saturday, September 10, 2022
Manuscripts of Chariton's Callirhoe
Chariton, Callirhoe. Edited and Translated by G.P. Goold (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995 = Loeb Classical Library, 481), p. 17:
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But the manuscript [Codex Florentinus Laur. Conv. Soppr. 627] had badly faded, and for his collation of 1843 (also preserved at Leiden) C.G. Cobet used chemicals which have now impaired legibility; the first folio can no longer be read.Id., p. 18:
The Codex Thebanus (Chariton erased under a Coptic text) was discovered in 1898: for a preliminary transcript Ulrich Wilcken confined himself to deciphering only the flesh side of the parchment, and this is all that survives, for by an unfortunate accident the palimpsest itself was destroyed in a fire on the docks at Hamburg.I don't see an entry for Chariton in the index of L.D. Reynolds and N.G. Wilson, Scribes and Scholars: A Guide to the Transmission of Greek and Latin Literature, 3rd ed. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991).
