A Comparison of the Berne Scholia with the Servian Commentaries on Vergil's Eclogues I-VI
Abstract
INTRODUCTIONThe so-called Berne Scholia, as edited by Hagen, are a ninth-century copy (probably several times removed from the original)2 of a "variorum" commentary, a compilation made from two or three separate commentaries on Vergil's Bucolics and Georgics.3 Other similar extracts ultimately descended from the same hypothetical compilation are the two Explanations in Bucolica Verrilli and the Brevis Expositio Vergilii Georgicorum. The consensus of scholarly opinion is that the compiler of this "variorum" commentary was a non-Roman,2 probably an Irishman,2 perhaps Adamnan, the abbot of Iona from 679 to 704.4
Subject Area
Literature
Recommended Citation
Healy, Mary Ursula, "A Comparison of the Berne Scholia with the Servian Commentaries on Vergil's Eclogues I-VI" (1960). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI28673350.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI28673350
