Year
2021
Publisher
University of London Press
Language
English
Pages
27
ISBN
978-1-90567-088-8
Last Update
08-Jun-2025
Keywords
Language & Literature ; History ; Classical Studies
What do we know for certain about the medieval transmission and reception of The Golden Ass or Metamorphoses of Apuleius? Our firmest evidence is codicological. The traditional stemma (fig. 1) shows some key moments, beginning, in the 1050s–80s, with the creation, at Monte Cassino, of F (Florence, Biblioteca Laurenziana 68.2), a manuscript containing the Metamorphoses, the Apologia, and the Florida.¹
The ink started to flake quite quickly from the flesh side of the parchment, and, around 1200, a copy of F was made which we call φ (Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Laurentianus 29.2). Towards the end of the eleventh...
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