Medieval Commentaries & Annotations

*Catalogus Translationum et Commentarium: Medieval and Renaissance Latin Translations and Commentaries, Annotated Lists and Guides. Washington: Catholic U of America P, 1960-. The Virgil volume, as of August 2001, has yet to appear. However, a useful bibliography of "Catalogues of Printed Editions" (not of Virgil in particular) is given on pp. xviii-xxi of the first volume.

"Anselm of Laon." Unedited. For description, see Baswell, Virgil in Medieval England.

"Bernardus Silvestris." Commentum quod dicitur Bernardi Silvestris super sex libros Eneidos Vergilii. Ed. Julian Ward Jones and Elizabeth Frances Jones. The Commentary on the First Six Books of the Aeneid of Vergil Commonly Attributed to Bernardus Silvestris. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1977. Tr. Earl G. Schreiber and Thomas E. Maresca. Commentary on the First Six Books of Virgil's Aeneid by Bernardus Silvestris. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1979. (The commentary breaks off after Aen. 6.636, though it was continued by a different author.)

Anderson, David. "Theban History in Chaucer's Troilus." Studies in the Age of Chaucer 4 (1982): 109-33. (On medieval Statius commentary, writing history, writing poetry.)

Boutemy, A. "La version parisienne du poême de Simon Chêvre d'Or sur la guerre de Troie (Ms. Lat. 8430)." Scriptorium 1 (1946-47): 267-288. Edition of the so-called "Yliad" of the 12^th century French chaplain Simon Aurea Capra.^Ce

Chenu, M. D. "Involucrum: Le mythe selon les théologiens médiévaux." Archives d'histoire doctrinale et littéraire du moyen age 20 (1956): 74-79. An effective gloss on the use of involucrum in Bernardus Silvestris.

Contreni, John J. Codex Laudunensis 468: A Ninth-century Guide to Virgil, Sedulius, and the Liberal Arts. Armarium codicum insignium 3. Turnhout: Brepols, 1984. Facsimile edition, with commentary, of the ninth-century Laon commentary.

Cormier, Raymond. "A Preliminary Checklist of Early Medieval Glossed Vergil Manuscripts." Studi Medievali 3rd ser. 32 (1991): 971-9.

Cormier, Raymond. "Wild Margins, Tame Text: Inventing the Vernacular in the Gutters of Virgil's Aeneid." French Literature Studies 20 (1993): 1-10.

Dante. Convivio 4.26.8-15.

Desonay, Fernand. "Virgile selon Jean d'Outremeuse." Studi medievali n.s. 5 (1932): 317-24.

Dronke, P. "Integumenta Virgilii". Lectures Médiévales de Virgile. Actes du Colloque organisé par l'Ecole française de Rome (Rome, 25-28 octobre 1982). Collection de l'Ecole française de Rome 80. Rome, 1985. 313-329.^Ce

Edden, Valerie. "Early Manuscripts of Virgiliana." The Library 5th ser. 28 (1973): 14-25. [Contains checklist of medieval mss. containing Servius or vitae.]

Gelsinger, Michael George Howard. "De Codice Vergiliano Bernensi CLXV." Diss. Harvard. Summary in Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 40 (1929): 199-200.^Co

Hofman, Rijcklof, ed. The Sankt Gall Priscian Commentary. 2 vols. Munster: Nodus, 1996. Vol. 1: introduction; bks. 1-5. Vol. 2: translation, commentary, indices.^Co Helen Conrad-O'Briain says, "Anyone interested in the early medieval reception of Vergil and the grammatical tradition will spend many happy hours with it! The Indices are quite wonderful."

Holtz, L. "La redécouverte de Virgile aux VIII^e et IX^e siècles d'après les manuscrits conservés." Lectures Médiévales de Virgile. Actes du Colloque organisé par l'Ecole française de Rome (Rome, 25-28 octobre 1982). Collection de l'Ecole française de Rome 80. Rome, 1985. 9-30.^Ce

John of Salisbury. Policraticus 8.24 et passim. See Lerer below and Jones, "The So-Called Silvestris Commentary."

Jones, J. W., Jr. "The Allegorical Traditions of the Aeneid." Vergil at 2000: Commemorative Essays on the Poet and His Influence. Ed. John D. Bernard. AMS Ars Poetica 3. New York: AMS, 1986. 107-32.

Jones, Julian Ward. "The So-Called Silvestris Commentary on the Aeneid and Two Other Interpretations." Speculum 64 (1989): 835-48. [Considers authorship of the commentary attributed to Bernardus Silvestris.]

Lambert, Pierre-Yves. "Les gloses celtiques aux commentaires de Virgile." Revue celtique 23 (1982): 81-128.^Co

Laugesen, A. T. "La Roue de Virgile: Une page de la théorie littéraire du Moyen Age." Classicalia & Medievalia 23 (1962): 248-73.

Lerer, Seth. "John of Salisbury's Virgil." Vivarium 20 (1982): 24-39.

Lindsay, W. M. "Virgil Scholia in the Ansileubus Glossary." American Journal of Philology 57 (?DATE): 1-6.^Co

Lindsay, W. M., and H. S. Thomson. Ancient Lore in Medieval Latin Glossaries. London and New York: OUP, 1921. (Newberry X672.506)

Maresca, Thomas E. Three English Epics: Studies in Chaucer, Spenser, and Milton. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1980. [On the influence of Fulgentius and Bernardus Silvestris.]

McCormick, Michael. Five Hundred Unknown Glosses from the Palatine Virgil: The Vatican Library, MS. Pal. lat. 1631. Studi e testi 343. Vatican City: Biblioteca apostolica vaticana, 1992.

Nitzsche, Jane Chance. The Genius Figure in Antiquity and the Middle Ages. New York: Columbia UP, 1975. [See pp. 42-64 on Bernardus Silvestris and the underworld descent.]

O'Donnell, J. Reginald. "The Sources and Meaning of Bernard Silvester's Commentary on the Aeneid." Mediaeval Studies 24 (1962): 233-49.

Savage, J. J. H. "Mediaeval Notes on the Sixth Aeneid in Parisinus 7930." Speculum 9 (1934): 204-12. Edition of notes from 11C (?).

Stohlmann, Jürgen. "Magister Simon Aurea Capra: Zu Person und Werk des späteren Kanonikers von St. Viktor." Hommages à André Boutemy. Collection Latomus 145. Ed. Guy Cambier. Brussells, 1976. 343-366.^Ce

Stok, Fabio. "Virgil between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance." International Journal of the Classical Tradition 1:2 (1994): 15-22.

Suerbaum, Werner. Vergils Aeneis: Beitrage zu ihrer Rezeption in Gegenwart und Geschichte. Bamberg: Buchners Verlag, 1981.

Trevet, Nicholas. Comentario a las Bucolicas de Virgilio. Ed. A. A. Nascimento and J. M. Díaz de Bustamente. Monografias de la Universidad de Santiago de Compostela vol. 97. Santiago de Compostela: Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, 1984.

Viarre, Simone. "L'interprétation de l'Enéide à propos d'un commentaire du douzième siècle." Chevallier, Présence de Virgile. 223-232. [With reference to the commentary attributed to Bernardus Silvestris.]

Villena, Enrique de. Eneyda romançada. Spanish translation of Aeneid, with gloss and vita. Villena also translated Dante's Commedia. See P. M. Catedra and D. C. Carr, Don Enrique de Villena (¿1384?-1434): una bibliografía crítica, forthcoming.

William of Conches. Commentary on Virgil. Probably lost, though see Jones. "The So-Called Silvestris Commentary."

Wlosok, Antonie. "Textkritische Marginalien und allegorisierende Illustrationen im Vergilcodex 837 der Universitätsbibliothek in Valencia." The Classical Tradition in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Proceedings of the First European Science Foundation Workshop on the Reception of Classical Texts. Florence, Certosa del Galluzzo, 26-27 June 1992. Ed. Claudio Leonardi and Birger M. Olsen. Spoleto: Centro Italiano di Studi sull'Alto Medioevo, 1995. 75-110. Includes 11 plates.