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Ars Edendi LECTURE SERIES Volume III Edited by Eva Odelman and Denis M. Searby AC TA U N I V E R SI TAT IS STO C K HOL M I E N SI S Studia Latina Stockholmiensia ————————————— LIX ————————————— Ars Edendi LECTURE SERIES Volume III Edited by Eva Odelman and Denis M. Searby STO C K HOL M U N I V E R SI T Y 2014 Cover image: Miniature from Den Haag, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, ms 71 A 24, fol. 2v, containing the legend of the monk Theophilus. This is a print on demand publication distributed by Stockholm University Library. Full text is available online www.sub.su.se. First issue printed by US-AB 2012. © The authors and Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis 2014 ISBN (print): 978 - 91- 87235 -74 - 0 ISBN (electronic): 978 - 91- 87235 -73 -3 ISSN 0491-2764 Distributor: Stockholm Unversity Library Printed 2014 by US-AB Table of Contents Introduction 1 Eva Odelman and Denis Searby Contributors 9 Critical Transmission 13 Mats Dahlström Moving the Goal Posts: The Re-writing of Medieval Latin Prose Texts 29 Michael Winterbottom The Homilies of Sophronius of Jerusalem: Issues of Prose Rhythm, Manuscript Evidence and Emendation 49 John M. Duffy Diogenes Laertius and the Gnomological Tradition: Considerations from an Editor of the Lives of the Philosophers 71 Tiziano Dorandi The Editing of Medieval Latin Commentary Texts: Problems and Perspectives Frank Coulson 105 Introduction The Ars edendi Research Programme, funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond and based at Stockholm University, explores both theoretical and practical issues of the editing of medieval Greek and Latin texts, especially in genres presenting quandaries to standard error-based, Lachmannian approaches. In our series of Ars edendi lectures, ever since the start of the eight-year programme in 2008, we have been inviting experienced scholars to share with us their perspectives on current developments in textual criticism or to address specific editorial challenges. This volume, the third and penultimate, offers its readers the personal reflections and experiences of two Latin and two Greek scholars in regard to their own editorial work as well as the perspectives of a researcher in library and information science concerning critical digitization. Thanks to their admirably didactic presentations, each of the lectures, we believe, can be useful not only for scholarly research but also in teaching settings to convey the finer points of textual criticism and to indicate both the differences and similarities between editing classical works and editing medieval ones. While we were preparing this introduction and summarizing the main points of each lecture, we realized that, though at first glance they deal with rather disparate subjects, there were some common issues which could bridge the passage from one to another. Hence we will not be presenting the lectures in their chronological order of appearance according to the arrangement of the volume but will make the transition hinge on some common editorial aspect. One of the genres of particular interest to the Ars edendi programme is that of medieval commentaries on various kinds of ‘canonical’ texts (classical or biblical or even other medieval texts, prose as well as poetry). As stated on the Ars edendi homepage (www.arsedendi.org): The commentary genre represents a hallmark of medieval hermeneutic tradition. A commentary is by nature a multilevel composition in which different textual, and at times also visual, layers are interwoven and interact with each other: the text to be 2 Eva Odelman and Denis Searby commented upon; excerpts from authoritative authors; the explanations of the commen