Latin Anthology
As the German philologist Alexander Anthologia Latina giant called his 1868 first edited collection "small" Latin poems from ancient times, which were in manuscript in various codices. Under the title Anthologia Burmann Pieter the Younger in Amsterdam already had 1759-73 published a similar collection. The name is based on the Anthologia Palatina (also: Anthologia Graeca ) that non- significant collection ( old) Greek epigrams and small seal that is already ancient in origin and of us traditional form in the Byzantine Middle Ages arose.
The basis of Riese's Edition latin small seal forms the collection of the Codex Salmasianus from the 8th century, which was compiled in North Africa towards the end of the Vandal domination ( 534). Herein, in addition to contemporary poets such as Luxurius, Minucius Felix and Florentinus who worked at the court of King Thrasamund Vandals in Carthage, also classical and post-classical Latin authors attributed poems and numerous Anonyma handed. This makes it the most important and comprehensive collection of its kind, which was already in ancient times for us. Giant she added in a second band by further poems ancient origin, in other collections in recent manuscripts of the 9th - 12th Century have been handed down.
Ream collection of handwritten traditional small seal turned the German philologist Franz Bücheler 1895 a two-volume collection of epigraphic Latin poetry to the side, which was described in the subtitle as "second part" of the Anthologia Latina, but now mostly under the actual title Carmina Latina Epigraphica (abbreviated CLE) is quoted. This was Bücheler into account the fact that the boundaries between "real" verse inscriptions and those that were included in literary collections and only survived there certainly is not sharply drawn.
Due to numerous discoveries Büche Jewellers two-volume work was supplemented by a supplement (ed. Ernst Lommatzsch, 1926). Although Büche moth collection is now obsolete even with this supplement, it is not replaced until today and still forms the reference point for the scholarly study of Latin verse inscriptions. The same applies to ream compilation of handwritten traditional poems, has submitted its first band DR Shackleton Bailey 1982, a new text edition.
Anthologies (Latin anthologies, dt " flowers reading " ) generally are collections of excerpts from the literature. The Greek poet Meleager of Gadara (ca. 140-70 BC) published a collection of epigrams by various authors under the title Stephanos (Greek, " wreath ", " garland " ) and thus interpreted the structure of a " braid " of tracks various origins to. This is the earliest surviving example of an epigram anthology and at the same time the core of the above Anthologia Graeca for us. The term " anthology " occurs for the first time in the title of a two-volume, 152-162 written work the astronomer Vettius Valens of Antioch.
The beginning of the first Latin Florilegia is in the dark. They were used from the beginning of the preservation, dissemination and educational treatment of texts, whose tradition was in jeopardy: Forms of cabaret as epigrams, aphorisms and Apophthegmata. The most important Latin for us recognizable collections small seal in addition to the anthology Salmasianischen the corpus Priapeorum and Epigrammata Bobiensia.