S. Martinelli Tempesta – Abstract

The A. studies the Corpus Isocrateum transmitted by the ms. Urbinas gr. 11 (G) in order to detect its sources. Paying attention to the mise en page of the leaves containing the end of a speech and the beginning of the following – when they are not identical with the end or with the beginning of a quire –, the A. notes that the scribes’ behaviour is not consistent: sometimes the preceding speech ends in the middle of the page and the following starts immediately afterwards, without any blank, while sometimes at the end of a speech a blank is left and the following text starts at the very beginning of the subsequent page (either on the recto or on the verso). These phenomena plausubly reflect an assemblage of heterogeneous sources. On this basis the A. proposes a hypothetical reconstruction of the original units.