I'm very curious about the subject of interpolations, but I've been hard-pressed to find what even seems like an attempt at an exhaustive listing of known interpolations. In the scholarly literature, has any such endeavor been tried? I'm imagining a table something like the following:
| Interpolated Text | Name of Book/Scroll Interpolation First Found In (Year of composition) | Name of Earliest Book/Scroll Interpolation Not Found In |
|---|---|---|
| "I slipped this text into this historic work!" | Neoantiquitus (404 CE) [citation] | Antiquitus (900 BCE) [citation] |
If you've seen anything like this please let me know. I'm basically hoping to find a literature review containing a list of interpolations from works scattered throughout history. The more collected interpolations the better.
The answer is no. Interpolation is a subtopic of any study of a given text. To collect them, you would need to go through the main analytical monographs of each text—that is, thousands of books. That sounds like something a German scholar might have done in the 18th century, but I'm pretty sure it does not exist. And if it did, it would be dense, and in German. Interpolation in ancient texts is relatively rare, and nearly impossible to prove. There are a few in Homer and a couple in Vergil. Some very very few have papyrus fragment arguments, but that is proably 0.1% of all suspected interpolations.
On a larger level: what would a comprehensive study of interpolation set out to prove? What would a line inserted into Iliad by a 6th-century BCE Athenian rhetor have to do with a line of Ovid Metamorphoses being rearranged by an Irish monk a millennium and a half later? What's the research question?