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A. C. Clark.
The Descent of Manuscripts.
Published Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1918.
[No ISBN].
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Printer: Oxford University Press.
Size: 152x232x30mm.
Page count: xv,464pp.
Main language: English; quotations given without translation.
Overall condition fair: this copy has no dustjacket; boards and spine very rubbed, some frays on the edges and corners; page edges dusty; endpapers foxed and pages rather yellowed with age; text appears to be free of marking.

This item £12.00
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[Various POD edns. available]
Weight without packaging: 832g.

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No particular medieval emphasis. Contents: Omissions in mss.; Omission marks, etc.; Evidence of marginalia; Primasius on the Apocalypse (Douce 140); Ciceronian palimpsests; Cicero, Philippics; Verrines; Oratt. post reditum (Sen., Quir., Dom., Har. Resp.), pro sestio, etc.; Pro Fonteio, pro Flacco, pro Cluentio, pro Milone, in Catilinam, Caesarianae; De natura Deorum, de Diviniatione, Timaeus, de Fato, Topica, Paradoxa, Lucullus, De Legibus; Asconius & Pseudo-Asconius; Mss. of Plato; Paris ms. of Demosthenes.
Appendix: Addenda.

Notes: occasional, at foot of page
Tables: no
Illustrations: no
Maps & plans: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: no
Indexes: General; Manuscript; Names & places; Chief passages referred to.

See also | Editorial practice | Manuscript studies | Classics & classicism |
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