The Other Italian Manuscripts

All of these have been shown by Kroymann1 to derive from earlier extant manuscripts. As such, their independent witness to the text is nil, since all they can offer is further copyist errors. Consequently they tend to get short shrift in the editions. All belong to the Corpus Cluniacense.

References

See bibliography for more detail on the references.

1. Emil KROYMANN, Die Tertullien-Ueberlieferung in Italien, Sitzungsberichte der Philosophisch-Historischen Classe der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien, 138 (1897 or 1898) 3rd booklet (34 pages). also in English translation

2. Cf. E.PREUSCHEN, in A.HARNACK, Uberlieferung und Bestand, p. 676, note 13. Not checked.  (Details from CCSL 1 table II).


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