Thesis title: «Quomodo historia adnotanda sit»: le annotazioni marginali nei manoscritti della Prima Deca di Livio tra Tarda Antichità e Medioevo
The thesis aims to investigate the phenomenon of reading marks on the oldest manuscripts (5th-12th centuries) of Livy's First Decade. The thesis itself is divided into four chapters:
1) the first provides a status quaestionis on the study of reading marks and critically addresses the issues underlying this discipline, with a view to creating an interpretative model that is functional to the corpus offered;
2) the second chapter describes in detail the nineteen manuscripts that make up the corpus; particular emphasis is given to identifying and describing the material characteristics of the marginalia and the “modus adnotandi” of each annotator; the chapter is introduced by a preface that provides an updated overview of the manuscript tradition of the Prima Deca;
3) the third chapter focuses on two corpora of traditional notes that appear in two branches of two different families of the tradition: a complete collation of critical apparatus and commentary on the most relevant phenomena will be provided for these annotations;
4) the fourth and final chapter is divided into three parts, in which the results of the survey are reviewed and commented on in general terms: the first part provides an overview of the material evolution of annotation practices; the second part, focusing on reception, reports on readers' attitudes towards the Livian text (with particular reference to a census of the most annotated passages); the third part revisits and rediscusses, in light of the material evidence and hypotheses put forward by historiography, the hypotheses concerning the reconstruction of the stemma codicum.