Kookaburra Jack
Ad Honorem
- May 2011
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- Rural Australia
Does anyone know of an online resource that lists the "date of the earliest extant manuscript" for literature - both Christian and Classical - authored in antiquity? Plato, Porphyry, Eusebius, Irenaeus, Cassius Dio, Suetonius and so forth. For example the earliest extant manuscript of Suetonius "De vita Caesarum" is dated c800 CE. I'd like to find a resource that collates this for each literature works of all authors.
Often I have wondered whether there is a catalogue around for this information. For example the following page provides the earliest manuscripts for the following, but this list is merely a brief beginning: I seek a comprehensive collection of this stuff ...
How Do Other Ancient Texts Compare to the New Testament? #10 Post of 2012
Homer Iliad --- c. 400 BC
Herodotus History === 10th C
Sophocles Plays === 3rd C BC
Plato Tetralogies === AD 895
Caesar Gallic Wars === 9th C
Livy History of Rome === Early 5th C
Tacitus Annals === AD 850
Pliny, the Elder Natural History === 5th C fragment
Thucydides, History === 3rd C BC
Because I'd also like to collect this data for Christian authors I have already started to look at individual authors one by one to arrive at the following very brief list: (but it is slow going .....)
Date of Earliest extant MS
0800 - Suetonius (De vita Caesarum) *
0800 - Tertullian (Apologeticum plus) *
1364 - Saint Justin ("Omnibus edition")
1350 - Hippolytus ("extremely crabbed hand")
Has some person or institution already made a collection of this historical data?
Thanks for any information.
Often I have wondered whether there is a catalogue around for this information. For example the following page provides the earliest manuscripts for the following, but this list is merely a brief beginning: I seek a comprehensive collection of this stuff ...
How Do Other Ancient Texts Compare to the New Testament? #10 Post of 2012
Homer Iliad --- c. 400 BC
Herodotus History === 10th C
Sophocles Plays === 3rd C BC
Plato Tetralogies === AD 895
Caesar Gallic Wars === 9th C
Livy History of Rome === Early 5th C
Tacitus Annals === AD 850
Pliny, the Elder Natural History === 5th C fragment
Thucydides, History === 3rd C BC
Because I'd also like to collect this data for Christian authors I have already started to look at individual authors one by one to arrive at the following very brief list: (but it is slow going .....)
Date of Earliest extant MS
0800 - Suetonius (De vita Caesarum) *
0800 - Tertullian (Apologeticum plus) *
1364 - Saint Justin ("Omnibus edition")
1350 - Hippolytus ("extremely crabbed hand")
Has some person or institution already made a collection of this historical data?
Thanks for any information.