Studies in the Textual Tradition of Terence, Grant, N. 9781487599225 New<-

Studies in the Textual Tradition of Terence\nby John N. Grant\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: John N. Grant\nTitle: Studies in the Textual Tradition of Terence\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval\nPublisher: University of Toronto Press\nPublication year: 1986\nISBN-13: 9781487599225\nISBN-10: 1487599226\nRRP: \u00A325.99\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nThe textual tradition of the Latin dramatist Publius Terentius Afer (second century BC) is unusually rich and complex. Over six hundred manuscripts containing some or all of Terence's six comedies have survived, but only one codex and three small fragments date from antiquity. All the rest were copied in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance when Terence was very popular. Recent.