The manuscripts of Cicero's De oratore

The manuscripts of Cicero's De oratore divide into two families: mutili and integri . The oldest representatives of the mutilated family are Avranches 238 (A; c. 830–50), Erlangen 380 ( olim 848; E; c. 985), and London, Harley 2736 (H; written by Lupus of Ferrierès, c. 830–40). A and H are independent of each other, and the best witnesses to the text of the lost archetype (M). E too is considered to be an independent witness. Since the work of E. Ströbel, dating from the early eighties of the last century, the view has been generally held that E, though closely related to A, is not a descendant of it but a copy of a ‘gemellus’ of A. The stemma devised by Ströbel has remained essentially the same to the present day

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