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Digital Find of the Day: Housman’s Opuscula

This one is a real treat, but very odd: a work on Google Books listed as Opuscula by A.E. Housman. The truth is that no such work was published, and what we have is a poorly scanned PDF of a collection of Housman’s articles which had been collected by someone at Oxford and bound together.

Here are the contents:

  1. Emendations Propertianae, JP XVI. 1 ff.
  2. Note on Emendations Propertianae, JP XVI. 291
  3. The Manuscripts of Propertius, JP XXI. 101 ff.
  4. The Manuscripts of Propertius (cont’d.), JP XXI. 161 ff.
  5. The Manuscripts of Propertius (cont’d.), JP XXII. 84 ff.
  6. Review: Butler and Barber’s Propertius, CR XLVIII. 136 ff.
  7. Note’s on Seneca’s Tragedies, CQ XVII. 163 ff.
  8. The Silvae of Statius, CR XX. 37 ff.
  9. Notes on the Thebais of Statius, CQ XXVII. 1 ff., 65 ff.
  10. Notes on Latin Poets (Catullus, Horace, and Ovid), CR IV. 340 ff.
  11. Remarks on the Vatican Glossary, JP XX. 432 ff.
  12. Adversaria Orthographica, CR V. 293 ff.
  13. Greek Nouns in Latin Poetry from Lucretius to Juvenal, JP XXXI. 236 ff.
  14. Siparum and Supparus, CQ XIII. 149 ff.
  15. The Latin for Ass, CQ XXIV. 11 ff.
  16. Vester = tuus, CQ III. 244 ff.
  17. Prosody and Method, CQ XXI. 1 ff.
  18. Prosody and Method II: the metrical properties of GN, CQ XXII, 1 ff.
  19. Praefanda, Hermes LXVI. 402 ff.
  20. On Certain Corruptions in the Persae of Aeschylus, AJP IX. 317 ff.
  21. The Agamemnon of Aeschylus, JP XVI. 244 ff.
  22. On the Aetia of Callimachus, CQ IV. 114 ff.
  23. Dorotheus of Sidon, CQ II. 47 ff.
  24. Dorotheus Once More, CQ XVII. 53 ff.
  25. On the New Fragments of Menander, CQ II. 114
  26. Sophoclea, JP XX. 25 ff.
  27. The Oedipus Coloneus of Sophocles, AJP XIII. 139 ff.
  28. The Michigan Astrological Papyrus, CP XXII. 257 ff.
  29. Abstract of a paper read at the Cambridge Philosophical Society, “Dryden, Poem upon the death of his late highness, Oliver“

MORE:

Thanks to Kevin for pointing out that the OPVSCVLA seem to have been compiled by Eduard Fraenkel.

Housman, of course, wrote a letter recommending Fraenkel for the Corpus professorship at Oxford, and later defended his appointment in a letter to the Times:

Brilliant!

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