Texts
Scholia Bernensia in Vergilii Bucolica et Georgica
Incoming data
Latin commentary on Virgil’s Eclogues (al. Bucolics) and Georgics. It is regarded as a representative of the so-called Servius auctus or Servius Danielis (DS), an expansion and reworking of Servius’ commentaries along with other material incorporated into the text. The extant manuscript versions, different though each of them may be, represent an early medieval recension of material which probably originated in late antiquity and which may have been written by the commentator Philagyrius.
Manuscript witnesses
Text
Bern, Burgerbibliothek, MS 165
A 9.1–10.774, 10.778–12.952.
MS
Bern, Burgerbibliothek, MS 167
Scholia on the Bucolica, written in the outer columns, and interlinear glosses. Incl. some Old Breton scholia, e.g. guascotou (f. 7v), melgabr (f. 7v), elestr (f. 8r), etc., as well as some Old Breton interlinear glosses.
f. 6va–
Text
Bern, Burgerbibliothek, MS 167
A 9–12.771. Scholia written in the outer column. This text lacks the scholia which in Bern MS 172 are found in the right margin, suggesting that the scholia were only incompletely copied. It has been argued that the text derives directly from Bern MS 172.
ff. 6ra–53va
MS
Bern, Burgerbibliothek, MS 167
incipit: Hic loquuntur duo pastores inter se, Meliboeus Scholia to the Bucolica.
f. 6ra
Text
Bern, Burgerbibliothek, MS 172
A 9–12. The most complete version of the scholia, which are here written in the margins to the main text (Vergil).
Sources
Primary sources Text editions and/or modern translations – in whole or in part – along with publications containing additions and corrections, if known. Diplomatic editions, facsimiles and digital image reproductions of the manuscripts are not always listed here but may be found in entries for the relevant manuscripts. For historical purposes, early editions, transcriptions and translations are not excluded, even if their reliability does not meet modern standards.
[ed.] Cadili, Luca, Scholia Bernensia in Vergilii Bucolica et Georgica, vol. 2.1: In Georgia commentarii (Prooemium, liber I, 1–42), Amsterdam: A. Hakkert, 2003.
[ed.] Daintree, David, “Scholia Bernensia: an edition of the scholia on the Eclogues of Vergil in Bern Burgerbibliothek manuscript 172”, unpublished PhD dissertation, University of Tasmania, 1993.
Contents: 1. Introduction; 2. General survey of the Virgil scholia; 3. The Scholia Bernensis and related material; 4. The influence of surviving scholia of the lost commentary of Aeilus Donatus; 5. The Irish connection; 6. Introduction to the text and sigla; [Edition - Eclogues I-X]; Bibliography and indexes.
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[ed.] Hagen, Hermann, Scholia Bernensia ad Vergili Bucolica atque Georgica, Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1867.
Internet Archive: <link>
749–838 (Bucolica); 839–983 (Georgica) Followed by: 984-987 (Appendix I: Figurae graecorum); 987-996 (Appendix II: scholia ex codice Bernensi 165 excerpta); 996-998 (Appendix III: ex codice Bernensi 167 = Periochae Bernenses II); 999-1006 (Epimetrum, from Leiden Voss. F 79).
[ed.] Müller, Karl-Wilhelm, Commentaria Iunilii Flagrii, T. Galli et Gaudentii in Virgilii, 4 vols, Rudolfstadt, 1847–1854.
Internet Archive: <link>
Vol. 4, 1–25 Edition based on Bern 172.
Secondary sources (select)
Digital library of late-antique latin texts, Online: Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Vercelli, 2010–present. URL: <https://digiliblt.lett.unipmn.it>.
abstract:
The 'Digital Library of Late-Antique Latin Texts' was officially established on March 1, 2010, thanks to funds granted by the 'Regione Piemonte' to support research in the area of Humanities and Social Sciences. The project, conceived by Raffaella Tabacco, was developed and substantiated by her and Maurizio Lana. It aims to produce a digital corpus of late-antique Latin literary texts (from the second to the fifth century AD), making it freely available to the scholarly community.
Useful summary. direct link
Zetzel, James E. G. (ed.), Critics, compilers, and commentators: an introduction to Roman philology, 200 BCE-800 CE, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.
abstract:
Table of contents
Preface
List of abbreviations
Part I: A short history of Roman scholarship
Chapter 1: The face of learning
Chapter 2: The origins of Roman grammar
Chapter 3: Word and world: Varro and his contemporaries
Chapter 4: Past and present: from Caecilius Epirota to Valerius Probus
Chapter 5: Finding the right word
Chapter 6: Dictionaries, glossaries, encyclopedias
Chapter 7: Commentary and exegesis
Chapter 8: Grammar and grammarians
Chapter 9: Author, audience, text
Chapter 10: Dictionaries and encyclopedias
Chapter 11: Commentaries
Chapter 12: Grammars and other forms of erudition
Chapter 13: Early medieval grammars
List of works cited
Indices
Manuscripts
General
Preface
List of abbreviations
Part I: A short history of Roman scholarship
Chapter 1: The face of learning
Chapter 2: The origins of Roman grammar
Chapter 3: Word and world: Varro and his contemporaries
Chapter 4: Past and present: from Caecilius Epirota to Valerius Probus
Chapter 5: Finding the right word
Chapter 6: Dictionaries, glossaries, encyclopedias
Chapter 7: Commentary and exegesis
Chapter 8: Grammar and grammarians
Chapter 9: Author, audience, text
Chapter 10: Dictionaries and encyclopedias
Chapter 11: Commentaries
Chapter 12: Grammars and other forms of erudition
Chapter 13: Early medieval grammars
List of works cited
Indices
Manuscripts
General
136–138
Cadili, Luca, “Scholia and authorial identity: the Scholia Bernensia on Vergil's Georgics as Servius auctus”, in: Sergio Casali, and Fabio Stok (eds), Servio: stratificazioni esegetiche e modelli culturali = Servius: exegetical stratifications and cultural models, 317, Brussels: Latomus, 2008. 194–206.
