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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 830 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MANUSCRIPTS .—The See also:

chief See also:MSS. of See also:Plautus belong to two families, which are proved by the errors which they have in See also:common to be descended from a single source (Sicker, " Novae quaestiones plautinae," in Philologus suppl. xi. 2 ; 1908) : (i.) that represented by the fragmentary See also:palimpsest of the Ambrosias_ Library at See also:Milan (A, 4th See also:century A.D.), discovered in 1815 by See also:Cardinal See also:Mai and now accessible in the A pograph of Studemund, edited by Seyffert (1889) ; (ii.) that represented by the See also:Palatine MSS. (P, loth-12th century), viz. B, now in the Vatican, containing all the twenty plays preceded by the See also:spurious Querolus; C, now at See also:Heidelberg, containing the last twelve plays, i.e. Bacchides-Truculentus; D, now in the Vatican, containing the Amphitruo, Asinaria, Aulularia, See also:half of the Captivi and the last twelve plays: to the same See also:family belong the following less important MSS.: E (at Milan), V (at See also:Leiden), J (in the See also:British Museum), 0 (in the Vatican). EDi tioxs.—The editio princeps, based mainly on a transcript of D, was printed at See also:Venice, 1472: the first scientific See also:text, based on B, C and D, was that of See also:Camerarius, completed 1552, in whose steps followed See also:Lambinus (with a commentary which is still useful), 1576; Taubmann, 1605-1621; Pareus (a meritorious edition), 1619 and 1623; Guyet, edited by Marolles, 1658; See also:Gronovius (the " See also:Vulgate "), 1664-1684; then, after the See also:lapse of more than a century, came the See also:editions of Bothe, 1809-1811; Naudet, 1830; and Weise, 1837-1848. A new era began with the See also:great See also:critical edition of certain plays by See also:Ritschl, 1848-1854, in which a See also:collation of A was used; a revised and completed See also:form of this See also:work was commenced by Ritschl himself and continued by his disciples See also:Goetz, Loewe and Schoell, 1871-1894: and of this an entirely rewritten editio See also:minor by Goetz and Schoell appeared in 1893-1896 (continued by a 2nd ed. of Fasciculus ii. in 1904), which is still the most useful of See also:modern editions for a critical study of the text, exhibiting, as it does, the MS. tradition with only such emendations as are securely established by the results of modern investigation. The other modern editions of the text are those of See also:Fleckeisen (containing ten plays, excellent for his See also:time), 1859; Ussing (with a commentary), 1875-1887, 2nd ed. of vol. iii. 1888; See also:Leo (a very important work), 1895-1896; See also:Lindsay, 1904-1905. Among modern editions of See also:separate plays with commentaries the following are probably the most useful: Amphitruo by See also:Palmer, 1890, and See also:Havet, 1895; Asinaria by See also:Gray, 1894; Aulularia by See also:Wagner, 1866 and 1876; Captivi by Brix, 6th ed., revised by Niemeyer, 191o; an See also:English edition of this work by Sonnenschein (with introduction on See also:prosody), 1880; same See also:play by Lindsay (with metrical introduction), 1900; Epidicus by Gray, 1893; Menaechmi by Brix, 4th ed., revised by Niemeyer, 1891; See also:Miles gloriosus by Lorenz, 2nd ed., 1886; by Brix, 3rd ed., revised by Niemeyer, 1901; by See also:Tyrrell, 3rd ed., 1894; Mostellaria by Lorenz, 2nd ed., 1883; by Sonnenschein, 2nd ed., 1907; Pseudolus by Lorenz, 1876; Rudens by Sonnenschein, 1891, editio minor (with a metrical appendix), 1901; Trinummus (with a metrical introduction) by Brix, 5th ed., revised by Niemeyer, 1907; by Gray, 1897; Truculentus by Spengel and Studemund, 1898.

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