Leighton Durham Reynolds
✓ Source-basedfallingBritish classical scholar (1930-1999)
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Leighton Durham Reynolds was a British Latinist who was known for his work on textual criticism. Spending his entire teaching career at Brasenose College, Oxford, he prepared the most commonly cited edition of Seneca the Younger's Letters.
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Brasenose College, Oxford, where Reynolds served as a fellow and tutor in Classics from 1957 to 1996
The beginning of Letter 1 from Seneca the Younger's Letters in a manuscript illuminated by Robert Boyvin (c. 1500)
Reynolds and Wilson co-authored a book on the medieval transmission of classical texts. This anonymous picture from the 12th-century shows a scribe at his desk and is housed at Trinity College, Cambridge.Awards 1
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United KingdomCategory
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deceased
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Lived 1930 to 1999 · aged 69
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