„Odkrycie” kodeksu Liwiusza z kościoła św. Piotra i Pawła w Legnicy na tle tradycji rękopiśmiennej Ab urbe condita i jego echa w prasie brytyjskiej w 1870 r.

• Authors: Michał Broda

Title variants

EN

„Discovery” of the Livius Codex From the St. Peter and Paul Church in Legnica Compared to Manuscript Tradition of Ab Urbe Condita, and Its Publicity in British Press in 1870

Abstracts

EN

The work Ab urbe condita by Roman historian Titus Livius originally consisted of 142 books, of which 35 survived until today. Beginning in the Renaissance period, humanists and ancient historians persisted in attempts to find the lost books; once in a while, news of actual or alleged discoveries appeared. Author of the article presents the alleged discovery of Livius codex by historian Hermann Kraffert in 1870 in Legnica, compared with the manuscript tradition of this work. Publicity surrounding the aforementioned “discovery” appeared in press around the world; in the article, that media attention presented on the example of British press.

Keywords

EN

Livius; Ab urbe condita; manuscripts; textual criticism; manuscript tradition; Roman historiography; classical literature; Hermann Kraffert; Great Britain; Legnica

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Wrocławski. Wydział Nauk Historycznych i Pedagogicznych. Instytut Historyczny
• Journal: Śląski Kwartalnik Historyczny Sobótka
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 74
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 5-26

Dates

published

2019

Contributors

author

Michał Broda

• Biblioteka Uniwersytecka we Wrocławiu

• https://orcid.org/0000000168897887

Identifiers

DOI

10.34616/SKHS.2019.3.5.26

Biblioteka Nauki

2185137