Managing Knowledge: Diagrammatic Glosses to Medieval Copies of the Rhetorica ad Herennium

Autore: O’Daly, Irene
Titolo: Managing Knowledge: Diagrammatic Glosses to Medieval Copies of the Rhetorica ad Herennium
Rivista/Miscellanea: "International Journal of the Classical Tradition", 23, 1
Pagine: 1-28
Parole chiave: Philologie - Filologia - Philology, Rhétorique - Retorica - Rhetorics
Descrizione: [Abstract dal sito della rivista] This article aims to demonstrate the relationship between diagrammatic glossing and the interpretation of the text of the Rhetorica ad Herennium in the eleventh to thirteenth centuries. Using four manuscripts containing marginal diagrammatic notations to the text, the article shows how the pseudo-Ciceronian manual was first read through the lens of De inventione, with cross-referencing between the two texts common, while in the later period the diagrams tended to summarise the text as given, using mnemonic techniques such as division and enumeration to prompt and formulate the diagrams. In so doing, the article shows how diagrammatic glossing is a valuable alternative to textual glossing, and an important knowledge management device.
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Sigla autore: O’Daly 2016