DOIAbstract
The article sets out to put the text of Consolatio ad Liviam on a firm foundation. After a survey of its editorial history, 12 manuscripts and numerous incunables are listed. The elimination of all but four incunables and of seven manuscripts copied from incunables leaves nine witnesses, and a textual and historical study reduces these for practical purposes to the first two editions and one manuscript, though two witnesses hitherto unknown, a manuscript and a related edition, prove to contain good emendations. Indirect evidence that has been thought to bear on the text or on its history before the first edition (1471) is explained away. The article concludes with a more accurate and concise apparatus criticus to the only text in print. The...