By Brent Miles
The puzzle of Ireland's position within the upkeep of classical studying into the center a while has constantly excited students, however the facts from the island's vernacular literature - instead of that during Latin - for the learn of pagan epic has mostly escaped become aware of. during this ebook the writer breaks new floor by way of analyzing the Irish texts along the Latin proof for the learn of classical epic in medieval eire, surveying the corpus of Irish texts in accordance with histories and poetry from antiquity, specifically Togail Troi, the Irish historical past of the autumn of Troy. He argues that Irish students' research of Virgil and Statius particularly left a profound imprint at the local heroic literature, specially the Irish prose epic Táin Bó Cúailnge (`The Cattle-Raid of Cooley').
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Herren saw 87 88 89 90 91 These, however, occur in the abbreviation of the Bern Scholia in Voss. Lat. F 79 (V of Cadili’s ‘recensio ΣBB’), not collated by Hagen, but discussed below in Chapter 2. , Scholia. Funaioli, Esegesi, 60–2 and passim; see the resumé of the argument by Daintree and Geymonat, ‘Scholia non serviana’; for the evidence of the Hiberno-Latin commentary on Orosius for whether the Filargirian collection commented also upon the Aeneid, which hinges on the citation of Gaudentius in the St Gall Priscian commentary, see Lehman, ‘Reste’, 34; see also Hofman, The Sankt Gall Priscian, 2: 341–2, who counters Funaioli’s attempt to dismiss the evidence.
It says only that there is no evidence that Irish manuscripts of Virgil were copied on the continent. Logic simply does not permit one to infer from the available evidence, which indicates that Virgil was read on the continent in the ninth century in continental manuscripts, that the poet was not read in Ireland in the same century or earlier in Irish manuscripts. 38 We can add that, strictly speaking, absence of surviving medieval Irish manuscripts of classical authors says nothing about the deficien- 35 36 37 38 Herren, HF-A, 24–7.
77 The text, a line by line commentary on the Eclogues in the fashion of Servius, survives in two recensions, preserved in three French manuscripts, the earliest from the ninth century. Curiously, the two recensions follow one another in each of the manuscripts. Both recensions preserve numerous glosses in Old Irish. So-called Recension I concludes with the following colophon: EXPLANATIO IVNII FILARGIRII GRAMMATICI EXPLICIT. Deus mecum per omnia, ego sum in gloria. Optatio mentis meae haec est, ut ante me supradictum est: quicumque legeris hanc glosiolam, Deum pro me misero roges, ut animae meae apud patrem meum veniam in caelo merear qui nomine sum Fatosus.