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This volume provides indices to the information contained in the catalog portions of Volume I. It includes: Summary tables that present the manuscripts by contents and date; An incipitarium identifying texts in Latin and vulgar languages pertaining to Statius that are found in the manuscripts; Indices to the commentaries on the Thebaid and Achilleid, together with a list of the annotated manuscripts of the Silvae; Indices of periochae to the Thebaid and Achilleid; An index of florilegia; Manuscripts with historiating decorations and printed editions with frontispieces depicting Statius; An...

Publius Papinius Statius was one of the most popular classical Latin poets through the mid-eighteenth century. His epics - the Thebaid and Achilleid - were among the most influential works in the Middle Ages, with the former being the inspiration for countless versions of the story of Thebes, including the Roman de Thebes, and the latter forming part of the most common Latin "textbook," the liber Catonianus. In medieval literature, he is best known for being Dante's co-chaperone through Purgatory and his sole chaperone into Paradise. Through the Silvae, Statius wielded an even stronger...

Manuscript evidence is now seen as a much more practical indicator of medieval academic approaches and scholarly methodologies than medieval philosophical tracts. But despite the increased facility of extended international travel in recent decades, there are very few resources that provide detailed descriptions of large numbers of manuscripts or help locate useful manuscript materials. As a result, scholars are often forced to base studies on the examination of a very small number of manuscripts and are unable to discuss either the prevalence or the manuscript context of their materials.