Medieval commentaries typically included an accessus, a standardized introduction to an author or book. In the twelfth century these introductions were anthologised, referred to now as "Accessus ad auctores". They served as the first handbooks of literary criticism. The earliest and most comprehensive example, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 19475, saec. XII, is presented here for the first time in a faithful critical edition, with a new translation and explanatory notes addressing different aspects of the text. This book's aim is to present an accurate version of the text while respecting the arrangement and integrity of the anthology as a whole, and includes previously unpublished material from the anthology.
Author(s): Stephen M. Wheeler (ed., transl.)
Series: TEAMS Secular Commentary Series
Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
Year: 2015
Language: English, Latin
Pages: XVI+280
City: Kalamazoo
Acknowledgments ix
Abbreviations xi
Introduction 1
Accessus ad auctores. Text and Translation 25
1. Introduction to Ovid’s Epistles [Heroides] 26
2. Again [Introduction to Ovid’s Epistles] 26
3. Introduction to Prudentius’s Psychomachia 28
4. Again, alternatively: Introduction to Prudentius’s Psychomachia 30
5. Introduction to Cato [Disticha Catonis] 32
6. Introduction to Avianus 34
7. Introduction to Maximianus 40
8. Introduction to Homer [Ilias Latina] 42
9. Introduction to Physiologus 42
10. Introduction to Theodolus [Ecloga Theoduli] 44
11. Introduction to Arator [Historia apostolica] 44
12. Introduction to Prosper [Epigrammata] 46
13. Introduction to Sedulius [Carmen paschale] 46
14. Of Ovid on the Art of Love 48
15. On the Cure for Love [Remedia amoris] 50
16. Ovid from Pontus [Epistulae ex Ponto] 52
17. Ovid’s Sorrows [Tristia] 52
18. Ovid without a Title [Amores] 54
19. Ovid’s Fasti 56
20. Introduction to Lucan 58
21. Introduction to Cicero [Paradoxa Stoicorum] 68
22. Cicero’s Paradoxes [Paradoxa Stoicorum] 68
23. Introduction to Boethius [Consolation of Philosophy] 80
24. Priscian [Institutiones grammaticae] 82
25. [Introduction to Ovid on Love or Ovid without a Title (Amores)] 86
26. Ovid’s Epistles [Heroides] 86
27. Introduction to On the Art of Poetry [Ars poetica] 92
28. [Pamphilus and Galathea] 98
29. [Thebaldus] 100
Explanatory Notes 103
Bibliography 255
Index 267
