Item 67 - C. E. Stuart: notes on and collation of the manuscripts of Seneca's Tragedies, with typescript of his dissertation on the subject

1 box containing loose sheets in several gatherings, most MS but one typescript.

"Sent by R. H. Philp" (from box label), no date given.

Gathering of MS notes; first page bearing the heading 'Notes mainly critical on the Tragedies of Seneca". Gathering of MS notes in envelope labelled 'MSS of Seneca's Tragedies. C. E. Stuart's collations of notes on MSS additional to what is recorded in his large notebooks [Add.MS.b/57, Add.MS.c/79 and Add.MS.d/63]' and with E[rnest] Harrison's name. Gathering of MS notes in envelope labelled 'C.E.S. Rough copy of parts of a discussion of the relations between the A MSS of Seneca's tragedies; possibly relics of an earlier form of the article in C[lassical] Q[uarterly] VI (1912) but he seems to go further here than there into the classification of the more useless MSS' [envelope originally? addressed to E. Harrison from P. Arthur with note 'not to be forwarded].

Typescript, "The Tragedies of Seneca"; title page has two notes by Harrison, recording that it is Stuart's dissertation [for his Trinity Fellowship, 1907] 'as it was sent in. All changes made by pen (except a few trifles) are subsequent. E.H. 9 Dec 1917.' and that 'marginal self-criticisms' are 'almost all due to [Harrison's] notes'.

C. E. Stuart's notes on the tragedies of Seneca and on Juvenal have arrived at the Library by various means. See also: Add.MS.a.549, Add.MS.a.549, C. E. Stuart: collation of manuscripts of Seneca's tragedies; Add.MS.b.57, C. E. Stuart: notes of variant readings of manuscripts of Seneca's tragedies, Add.MS.c.79, C. E. Stuart: notes on manuscripts of the tragedies of Seneca, Add.MS.d.63, C. E. Stuart: notes on manuscripts of the tragedies of Seneca, and Add.MS.b.97, C. E. Stuart: Collation of Juvenal manuscripts.