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Adnotationes super Lucanum

  • Latin
  • prose

Medieval Latin commentary to Lucan’s poem De bello civili (al. Pharsalia). It is closely related to another commentary, the Commenta Bernensia in Lucanum, with which it is associated in Bern MS 370. The nature of this relationship remains unclear as does the degree to which they might preserve a core of late-antique exegetical material.

Manuscripts
Bern, Burgerbibliothek, MS 370
ff. 128v–179v
Incomplete. Gaps between ff. 145v and 146r and towards the end.
Cologne, Fondation Bodmer, MS Bodmer 182
ff. 1–81
Previously MS I 2 in the Oettingen—Wallerstein collection.
Leiden, University Library, MS VLF 63
Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique, MS 5330-5532
Prague, Národní knihovna České republiky, MS 1627
Language
  • Latin
Form
prose (primary)
Textual relationships
(Possible) sources: De bello civiliDe bello civiliEpic poem on the civic war between Julius Caesar and Pompey.
Related: Commenta Bernensia in LucanumCommenta Bernensia in Lucanum

Medieval Latin commentary on Lucan’s poem De bello civili (al. Pharsalia) as preserved in manuscripts now in Bern (MSS 370 and 45). It is closely related to the Adnotationes super Lucanum, with which it is associated in MS 370. It is a matter of some debate to what extent the Commenta and Adnotationes might have been based on late antique material.

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Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen
Page created
November 2019, last updated: July 2023