[3 Vol.] The Manuscripts of Statius. Vol. 1: Introduction and Catalogs of Materials. Vol. 2: Indices. Vol. 3: Reception: The Vitae and Accessus.

From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Slight staining on bottom edge, otherwise very good and clean. / Leichte Anschmutzung auf Fu�chnitt, sonst sehr gut und sauber. - Vol. 1: Manuscript evidence is now seen as a much more practical indicator of medieval academic approaches and scholarly methodologies than medieval philosophical tracts. But despite the increased facility of extended international travel in recent decades, there are very few resources that provide detailed descriptions of large numbers of manuscripts or help locate useful manuscript materials. As a result, scholars are often forced to base studies on the examination of a very small number of manuscripts and are unable to discuss either the prevalence or the manuscript context of their materials. The Manuscripts of Statius is the first complete and detailed catalog of the extant manuscripts of an ancient author. The volumes provide detailed descriptions of 706 extant manuscripts and 101 annotated early editions (together with several lost volumes whose makeup can be reconstructed), dating from the eighth to the seventeenth century. They also identify or classify the ancillary materials and provide analyses of key elements, from the condition of the manuscripts to the development of Statius� reception. While these volumes are intended to foster and support Statian studies, they will also serve as a baseline for studies of other authors� manuscripts and will provide critical primary data to codicologists and scholars of medieval literary theory and criticism. This volume contains the bibliography, introduction, and catalogs of manuscript materials, including manuscripts, annotated early printed editions, entries in medieval library inventories, and an index to the introduction. - Vol. 2: This volume provides indices to the information contained in the catalog portions of Volume I. It includes: 1. Summary tables that present the manuscripts by contents and date; 2. An incipitarium identifying texts in Latin and vulgar languages pertaining to Statius that are found in the manuscripts; 3. Indices to the commentaries on the Thebaid and Achilleid, together with a list of the annotated manuscripts of the Silvae; 4. Indices of periochae to the Thebaid and Achilleid; 5. An index of florilegia; 6. Manuscripts with historiating decorations and printed editions with frontispieces depicting Statius; 7. An index of proper names; 8. A list of other authors whose works are found in the Statian manuscripts; 9. A list of dated and datable manuscripts; 10. An index locorum citatorum, listing the passages on which notes have been transcribed in the catalogs; 11. Conspectus siglorum; 12. A checklist of printed editions; and 13. An index of manuscript materials. - Vol. 3: This volume discusses Statius� reception, interpretation, and popularity through the beginning of the sixteenth century. The discussion and analysis is based on the richest primary source of this type of information, biographical details found in the manuscripts and printed volumes, which are listed and described in the first two volumes. The purpose of this discussion is to illustrate the most important issue in medieval criticism of Statius, one that crops up in most manuscripts in one form or another: the question of his biography; and to shed light on the very peculiar circumstances of Statius� biographical tradition, which, given the lack of information available to medieval scholars, shows much more clearly the use of sources and the development of academic methodologies and scholarly interests than the traditions of other authors. - Harald Anderson is an independent scholar. ISBN 1449931928