A new tabulation of online Boethius manuscripts which contain his famous stemma, or arbor porphyriana, has just appeared on my website. (Here.) I have not done serious work on Boethius for more than three years, so I spent a couple of days looking again at the sources.
I find it remarkable that so many of these documents can now be seen remotely via the internet: there are no fewer than eight manuscripts accessible, and three of them duplicate the stemma, so we have a total of eleven early medieval drawings to study.
A task remains for any eager reader. I have not heard that the Greek text of
Porphyry, or the translations to Latin, Syriac and Arabic (list by Roger Pearse), contain such a diagram. One is reluctant to trust the critical editions, since text scholars generally leave out diagrams. If anyone would care to comb online versions of these, it would be good to have a clear yes-or-no answer about this.
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Jean-Baptiste Piggin is a New-Zealand-born historian. His work in the 1990s on a news-writing style guide and converting legacy documents to the web led him to establish the Macro-Typography guide in 2001. Since 2009 he has been investigating the history of Latin diagrams and maps. A graduate of the University of Auckland, he has lived in Germany for the past 35 years. His writing while a news-agency foreign correspondent on German life and politics appeared in newspapers and news portals worldwide.
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