Open AccessStudies in the Textual Tradition of Philostratus' Life of Apollonius of Tyana
Author(s) -
Gerard Boter
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
revue d'histoire des textes
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2507-0185
pISSN - 0373-6075
DOI - 10.1484/j.rht.1.103633
Subject(s) - extant taxon , philosophy , literature , critical edition , classics , history , art , evolutionary biology , biology
This article, which is devoted to the textual tradition of Philostratus' Life of Apollonius of Tyana (VA), is a sequel to G. J. BOTER, Towards a new critical edition of Philostratus' Life of Apollonius: the affiliation of the manuscripts, in K. Demoen, D. Praet (eds.), Theios Sophistes, Leiden-Boston, 2009, p. 21-56. The article consists of four parts. The first part contains a codicological description of the sixteen extant manuscripts that contain (large portions of) the text. The second part is concerned with twelve manuscripts that contain excerpts or fragments of the VA. The third part is devoted to the treatise by Eusebius and the excerpts in Photius' Bibliotheca and the Suda. The fourth part, finally, gives a correction of the stemma that was presented in the 2009 article: it is shown that Scorialensis Φ.III.8 (E) is the source of the common ancestor of Parisinus gr. 1696 (P) and Marcianus gr.XI.29 (M) and not its gemellus. © BREPOLS & PUBLISHERS