The Textual Tradition of Plato’s Timaeus and Critias

566 Pages·2017·2.443 MB·English

by  Jonkers, Gijsbert

TheTextualTraditionofPlato’sTimaeusandCritias
Mnemosyne
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monographs on greek and
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G.J.Boter(vuUniversityAmsterdam)
EditorialBoard
A.Chaniotis(InstituteforAdvancedStudy,Princeton)
K.M.Coleman(HarvardUniversity)
I.J.F.deJong(UniversityofAmsterdam)
T.Reinhardt(OxfordUniversity)
volume400
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The Textual Tradition of
Plato’s Timaeus and Critias
By
GijsbertJonkers
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Contents
Preface ix
NoticetotheReader x
IndexSiglorum xii
Stemmata xv
Introduction.MethodofResearch 1
part 1
StatusQuaestionis 13
part 2
TheGreekDirectTradition
1 DescriptionofManuscripts 45
2 ThePrimaryManuscriptsoftheTimaeus 91
1 TheRelationshipofthePrimaryManuscripts 91
1.1 Section1:TheArgumentsforPrimacy 93
1.1.1 A(Parisinus1807) 93
1.1.2 V(Vindobonensisphil.gr.337) 96
1.1.3 F(Vindobonensissuppl.gr.39) 97
1.1.4 C(TubingensisMb14) 100
1.1.5 Y(VindobonensisPhil.Gr.21),Θ(Vaticanus226)andΨ
(Parisinus2998) 105
1.2 Section2:TheRelationsbetweenthePrimaryWitnesses 125
1.2.1 AandV 125
1.2.2 TheRelationbetweenFandCg 132
1.2.3 TheRelationbetweenAVandFCg 138
1.3 Section3:TheValueoftheDifferentManuscriptsforthe
ConstitutionoftheText 145
2 TheIndividualPrimaryManuscripts 148
2.1 A(Parisinus1807) 149
2.2 V (Vindobonensisphil.gr.337) 162
2.3 F(Vindobonensissup.gr.39) 165
2.4 TheCharacteroftheCommonErrorsofCg 175
vi contents
2.5 C(TubingensisMb14) 178
2.6 TheCharacterofg 188
2.7 Y (VindobonensisPhil.Gr.21) 190
2.8 Θ(Vaticanus226) 195
2.9 Ψ(Parisinus2998) 197
3 TheSecondaryManuscriptsoftheTimaeus 202
1 Section1:TheA-Family 202
2 Section2:TheF-Family 206
3 Section3:TheC-Family 215
4 Section4:Theg-Family,part1:TheΨ-group 229
5 Section5:Theg-Family,part2:theY-group 279
4 TheManuscriptsoftheCritias 323
1 ThePrimaryWitnessesoftheCritias 323
2 TheSecondaryManuscriptsoftheCritias 325
2.1 TheA-Family 325
2.2 TheF-Family 328
5 TheFirstPrintedEditionsoftheTimaeusandCritias 355
1 Ficino’sTranslation 355
2 TheAldina 361
3 ATimaeusEditionbyChristianWechel 366
4 TheFirstBasleEdition 366
5 TheSecondBasleEdition 368
6 Cornarius’Eclogae 370
7 Stephanus’Edition 374
8 EditioBipontina 377
9 Ast’sEdition 377
6 TwoPapyrusFragments 378
part 3
TheIndirectTraditionoftheTimaeusandCritias
7 TheGreek,Latin,ArmenianandArabicTradition 383
1 GeneralRemarks 383
1.1 TheGreekTradition 384
1.2 TheLatinTradition 387
contents vii
1.3 PlatoinArmenia 390
1.4 TheArabicTradition 393
8 IndexTestimoniorum 397
9 IndexAuctorumPlatonisTimaeumvelCritiamLaudantium 524
Bibliography 537
IndexLocorumPotiorum 547

Preface
Thisbookisanewandextendedversionofmydoctoraldissertationthatwas
publishedin1989onthemedievalmanuscriptsofPlato’sTimaeusandCritias:
the so-called direct tradition. Since 1989, many studies on Plato mss have
appearedwithnewinsightswhichprovidedmewiththeopportunitytoadapt
myconclusionsinanumberofcases.Anentirelynewpartofthispublication
istheinventoryoftheindirecttradition:anindexofancienttestimoniesofthe
textofthesedialogues.
Theresultistheoutcomeofmanyyearswork,whichIcouldnothavedone
withoutthehelpofmanyothers.From1982to1986Ienjoyedthegreatpleasure
topreparemydissertationinthecompanyof GerardBoterwhowasworking
on the text tradition of Plato’s Republic at the time and who, now as Profes-
sorGerardBoter,hascontinuouslyadvisedandsupportedmeinpreparingthis
secondedition.Fromthestartin1982,professorD.M.Schenkeveldandthelate
professorS.R.SlingsoftheFreeUniversityinAmsterdamstimulatedandsuper-
visedtheprogressofmystudies.ProfessorDavidRuniaandthelateprofessor
D.Holwerdareadmydissertationandmadehelpfulcomments.MybrotherMr
GertJonkersandmyformerpupilsinancientGreekDrElskeBosandDrCaro-
lienOudshoornhelpedmeintypingtheIndexTestimoniorum.MyEnglishwas
corrected by Mrs M.L. Vaalburg-Darbon, Mrs Hanna Fuellenkemper and Mr
AnthonyRunia.TheNetherlandsOrganizationfortheAdvancementof Pure
Research (z.w.o.) provided the necessary financial support for my research.
During two weeks in 1985 and again in 1990, I enjoyed the hospitality of the
FondationHardtatVandoeuvresinSwitzerland,whileworkingonmyIndex.
IamgratefultotheEditorialBoardof Mnemosyneforacceptingmybook
intheseriesof MnemosyneSupplementa.Inparticular,mythanksaredueto
theexternalreferentof Mnemosynewhohasreadmymanuscriptandkindly
providedthemostvaluablesuggestionsandcomments,fromwhichItookgreat
benefit.
Finally, I am indebted to Dr Tessel Jonquière and the staff of Brill Aca-
demic Publishers for their guidance and unfailing efficiency in transforming
amanuscriptintoabook.
Notice to the Reader
1.Themssdiscussedinthisstudyareindicatedbysigla.Ingeneral,Ihavetaken
over the sigla introduced by Bekker and Stallbaum. However, in most of the
caseswhereBurnetusesadifferentsiglumfromBekkerorStallbaum,Ihave
followedBurnet.FortheTubingensisIuseBurnet’sCandnotStallbaum’sgothic
T. In the case of Bekker’s siglum F for Parisinus1812, I follow Schneider and
Burnet,whousethesiglumFtoindicateVindobonensisSuppl.Gr.39.Onthe
otherhand,IuseBekker’sΣforVenetus189andhisSforParisinus2010,whereas
Burnet uses S for Venetus 189. I have not adopted any Gothic sigla; in these
casesIhaveinventedasiglummyself,asIhavedoneforthosemssforwhich
nosiglumyetexisted.Foranumberof msswhich,besidesthe Republic,also
containtheTimaeusand/orCritias,siglahaverecentlybeeninventedbyBoter.
TheseIhavetakenover,withafewexceptions:BoterusedΨforScorialensisΨ
1,1;IhavereservedΨforParisinus2998,andIindicateScorialensisΨ1,1byScor.
BoterusedVforVindobonensisPhil.Gr.1,butIhavegivenittoVindobonensis
Phil. Gr. 337. I have indicated Florentinus Laurentianus 85,7 by Stallbaum’s x,
whilex(notinboldcharacter)isusedindiagramsforhypotheticalmss.
Pagesxiiff.containalistof thesiglausedbyme.Ihaveaddedinbrackets
thenumberwhichamsbearsinthefirstchapter(DescriptionofManuscripts),
whereIalsomentionthesiglagiventoamsbyothers.
2.Thestemmataofthedifferentfamiliescanbefoundontheimmediatelyfol-
lowingpages.Ihavenotdrawnthelinesofcontaminationinthesestemmata;
fortheseIreferthereadertotheinformationgivenabouteachmsinthethird
chapter.
3.AllreferencesaretoBurnet’sOxfordtextof1905.
4.InrecordingthereadingsofthemssIusethefollowingabbreviations:
xit lectiointextuscripta
xsl lectiosupralineamscripta
xim lectioinmarginescripta
xac lectioantecorrectionem
xpc lectiopostcorrectionem(addedeitherbythescribehimselforbyalater
hand)
x1pc lectiopostcorrectionem,aprimamanuscripta
x2pc lectiopostcorrectionem,asecundamanuscripta