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De Bello Gallico
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Commentarii de bello Gallico
‘Commentaries on the Gallic wars’
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Gaius Julius Caesar
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See separate section below
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| Language
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Latin
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Manuscripts
The earliest extant manuscripts of the text belong to the Middle Ages. These manuscripts are usually divided into two families, a class α and a class β, which in one way or another, derive ultimately from a common exemplar:[1]
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Class β (expanded):
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- γ
- A: Amsterdam, University Library, MS xv G 1 = codex Amstelodamensis 73 [s. ix/x], previously listed as no. 81 and also known as the Codex Bongarsianus.
- Q:[2] Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS lat. 5056 = codex Moysiacensis [s. xi/xii], ff. 90r-130v
- φ
- B: Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS lat. 5763 = codex Parisinus I [s. ix]
- Leiden, codex Leidensis Vossianus Q. 53 [s. xi], from MS B.[3]
- L: London, British Library, Additional MS 10084
- M:[4] Vatican City, Vatican Library, codex Romanus Vaticanus 3864 [s. x]
- S:[5] Florence, Bibl. Laurentianus, MS R 33 = codex Ashburnhamianus [s. x]
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- π
- a:[6] Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS lat. 5764 = codex Parisanus II [s. xi]
- f: Vienna, Bibl. Vindobonensis MS 95 = codex Vindobonensis [s. xii]
- ρ
- h:[7] Vatican City, Vatican Library, codex Vaticanus 3324 = codex Ursinianus [s. xii]
- l: Florence, Bibl. Richardianus, MS 541 [s. xi/xii]
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Description
Notes
- ^ The following is based on Ryce, xii-xiii
- ^ Siglum M in Du Pontet, preface
- ^ Siglum b in Du Pontet, preface
- ^ R in Du Pontet, preface
- ^ D in Du Pontet, preface
- ^ T in Du Pontet, preface
- ^ U in Du Pontet, preface
Sources
Editions and translations
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Hering, W. (ed.), C. Iuli Caesaris commentarii, I: Commentarii belli gallici, Leipzig, Stuttgart: Teubner, 1987.
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Du Pontet, R. L. A. (ed.), C. Iuli Caesaris Commentariorum I: Libri VII de bello Gallico cum A. Hirti supplemento, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1900. Internet Archive: 1, 2
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Edwards, H. J. (ed. and tr.), Caesar: The Gallic War, Loeb Classical Library, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1917. Internet Archive: 1, 2
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- Individual books
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Ewan, Colin (ed.), De Bello Gallico I, Bristol Classical Press, revised ed. [1957], London, 1993.
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Kennedy, E. C. (ed.), De bello Gallico II, Palatine Classics, London: University Tutorial Press, 1967.
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Rambaud, Michel (ed.), De bello Gallico secundus tertiusque libri, Érasme: collection de textes latins commentés 12, Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1965. » Books 2 and 3.
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Kennedy, E. C. (ed.), De bello Gallico III, Cambridge Elementary Classics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1959.
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Rambaud, Michel (ed.), Bellum Gallicum. Liber 4, Érasme: collection de textes latins commentés 19, Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1967. » Book 4.
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Carrington, R. C. (ed.), Caesar. De bello Gallico V [1939], Bristol: Bristol Classical Press, 1984.
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Rambaud, Michel (ed.), Bellum Gallicum. Liber 5, Érasme: collection de textes latins commentés 29, Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1974. » Book 5.
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Kennedy, E. C. (ed.), De bello Gallico VI, Bristol Classical Press, Bristol, 1969.
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Kennedy, E. C. (ed.), De bello Gallico VII, Cambridge Elementary Classics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1959.
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- Translations
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See the list above for editions with accompanying translations
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Hammond, Carolyn (tr.), Julius Caesar. The Gallic war: seven commentaries on the Gallic war with an eighth commentary by Aulus Hirtius, Oxford Classical Texts, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
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Hunink, Vincent (tr.), Gaius Julius Caesar, Oorlog in Gallië, en Aulus Hirtius, Aanvulling op Caesars 'Oorlog in Gallië', Amsterdam: Polak & Van Gennep, 1997. » Dutch translation, with commentary
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Secondary sources
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Hering, Wolfgang, Die Recensio der Caesarhandschriften, Deutsche Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, Schriften der Sektion für Altertumswissenschaft 41, Berlin, 1963.
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External links
- Burgersdijk, Diederik. "Caesar op het Singel. De omzwervingen van de codex Amstelodamensis 73." Hermeneus 74 no. 1 (2002): 23-32.
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