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De epythetis Virgilii

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Glossary on the works of Virgil (Eclogues, Georgics and most of the Aneid), preserved in one manuscript compiled under the direction of Martin of Laon (Laon MS 468). Many of the glosses are parallelled by a group of related Servian commentaries.

Manuscript witnesses

Text

Laon, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 468 

rubric: De epythetis Virgilii   incipit: Epytheton est: quando proprietas uniuscuiusque rei ei adiungitur   

ff. 18r–51r  

MS

Laon, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 468 

rubric: De epythetis Virgilii   incipit: Epytheton est   Annotated glossary on Virgil’s works (Eclogues, Georgics and most of the Aeneid). Upper margin, f. 18r: Pollioni scripsit Bocolica. Written in two columns.

f. 18r–f. 51r

Sources

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Secondary sources (select)

Contreni, John J., “Getting to know Virgil in the Carolingian age: the Vita Publii Virgilii”, in: Valerie L. Garver, and Owen Michael Phelan (eds), Rome and religion in the medieval world: studies in honor of Thomas F. X. Noble, Surrey: Ashgate, 2014. 21–46.