I. Bibliographies
II. Surveys and Collections of Essays
III. Manuscript Transmission of Classical Authors
IV. Medieval Commentaries on Classical Authors
V. Some Major Classical Authors
VI. Mythography
VII. Transmission, Translation, and Influence of Greek Literature in the West
I. Bibliographies
Classical Studies:
Oxford Bibliographies–Classics
David M. Schaps, Handbook for Classical Research (New York, 2011).
F. W. Jenkins, Classical Studies: A Guide to the Reference Literature, 2nd ed. (Westport CT, 2006). WorldCat
Graham Whitaker, A Bibliographical Guide to Classical Studies, 5 vols. (Hildesheim, 1997-2007). WorldCat
Jacques Poucet and J.-M. Hannick, Aux sources de l’antiquité gréco-romaine: guide bibliographique (Brussels, 1995). See also the associated website, Bibliotheca Classica Selecta. The most immediately relevant sections are Sources littéraires greques et latines and Transmission des Textes.
Brigitte Gullath, Wie finde Ich altertumswissenschaftliche Literatur? (Berlin, 1992). WorldCat
M. Van der Poel, Bibliographia Latina Selecta
Tools of the Trade: Bibliographies for Roman Studies
Eleanor Dicke, Ancient Greek Scholarship: A Guide to Finding, Reading, and Understanding Scholia, Commentaries, Lexica, and Grammatical Treatises, from Their Beginnings to the Byzantine Period (Oxford, 2006).
KIRKE – Katalog der Internetressourcen für die Klassische Philologie
Reception and Influence of Classical Literature in the Middle Ages:
Michael Herren, “Classics in the Middle Ages,” Oxford Bibliographies
Richard Tarrant, “Transmission of Greek and Latin Literature,” Oxford Bibliographies
Pierre Petitmengin and Birger Munk Olsen, “Bibliographie de la reception de la littérature classique du IXe au XVe siècle,” in The Classical Tradition in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, ed. Claudio Leonardi and Birger MunkOlsen, Biblioteca di Medioevo Latino 15 (Spoleto, 1995), pp. 199-274. WorldCat
Karsten Friis-Jensen, Birger Munk Olsen, and Ole L. Smith, “Bibliography of Classical Scholarship in the Middle Ages and the Early Renaissance (9th to 15th Centuries),” in Medieval and Renaissance Scholarship, ed. Nicholas Mann and Birger Munk Olsen, Mittellateinische Studien und Texte 21 (Leiden, 1997), pp. 197-252. WorldCat
Viktor Pöschl, Bibliographie zur antiken Bildersprache (Heidelberg, 1964). WorldCat Has two main sections: Literatur and Bilder (Images). The section on Images is divided into a main section on Gestalten und Personifkationen (Figures and Personifications: including both biblical and mythological); and Appendices on Lateinische Ausdrücke (Latin Expressions) and Griechische Ausdrücke (Greek Experessions). To use the main section you need to know the German word for a given image or vehicle of a metaphor.
James E. G. Zetzel, Critics, Compilers, and Commentators: An Introduction to Roman Philology, 200 B.C.E – 800 C.E(Oxford, 2018). Includes a “Bibliographic Guide” covering Dictionaries and Encyclopedias; Commentaries (on ten classical authors); Grammars and Other Forms of Erudition; and Early Medieval Grammars.
The Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies (1931- ).
Medioevo Latino. Consult the section “Fortleben,” or search the Mirabile database.
L’année philologique (1924/26- )
II. Surveys and Collections of Essays
Jan Ziolkowski, “The Middle Ages,” in A Companion to the Classical Tradition, ed. Craig Kallendorf (Malden MA, 2007), pp. 17-29. WorldCat
The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, vol. 2: The Middle Ages, ed. Alastair Minnis and Ian Johnson(Cambridge, 2005). Part II, The Study of Classical Authors: Winthrop Wetherbee, “From Late Antiquity to the Twelfth Century,” pp. 99-144; Vincent Gillespie, “From the Twelfth Century to c. 1450,” pp. 145-238. WorldCat
John Edwin Sandys, A History of Classical Scholarship, I: From the Sixth Century B. C. to the End of the Middle Ages(Cambridge, 1921). WorldCat Chronological survey with chapter on survival of Latin classics. Dated but still useful.
Louis Holtz, “La transmission des classiques latins: de l’Antiquité tardive à l’époque carolingienne,” in Itinerari dei testi antichi, ed. O. Pecere (Rome 1991), pp. 85-104.
Birger Munk Olsen, La réception de la littérature classique au moyen âge (IXe-XIIe siècle): choix d’articles publié par des collègues à l’occasion de son soixantième anniversaire (Copenhagen, 1995).
Gilbert Highet, The Classical Tradition: Greek and Roman Influences on Western Literature (Oxford, 1949). WorldCat
R. R. Bolgar, The Classical Heritage and its Beneficiaries from the Carolingian Age to the End of the Renaissance(Cambridge, 1954). WorldCat
La cultura antica nell’Occidente latino dal VII all’XI secolo, 2 vols., Settimane di studio del Centro italiano di studi sull’alto medioevo 22 (Spoleto, 1975). WorldCat
Medieval and Renaissance Scholarship: Proceedings of the Second European Science Foundation Workshop on the Classical Tradition in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (London, Warburg Institute, 27-28 November 1992), ed. Nicholas Mann and Birger Munk Olsen (Leiden, 1997). WorldCat
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 Munk Olsen (Spoleto, 1995). Includes a “Bibliographie de la réception de la littérature classique du IXe au XVe siècle” by Pierre Petitmengin and Birger Munk Olsen. WorldCat
Marjorie Curry Woods, Weeping for Dido: The Classics in the Medieval Classroom (Princeton NJ, 2015).
The Classics in the Medieval and Renaissance Classroom: The Role of Ancient Texts in the Arts Curriculum as Revealed by Surviving Manuscripts and Early Printed Books, ed. Juanita Feros Ruys, John O. Ward, and Melanie Heyworth, Disputatio 20 (Turnhout, 2013). WorldCat
Willi Erzgräber, Kontinuität und Transformation der Antike im Mittelalter (Sigmaringen, 1989). WorldCat
Jan Ziolkowski, Nota Bene: Reading Classics and Writing Songs in the Early Middle Ages, Publications of The Journal of Medieval Latin 7 (Turnhout, 2007).
The Classics in the Middle Ages, ed. A. S. Bernardo and S. Levin, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 69 (Binghamton NY, 1990). WorldCat
Medieval Antiquity, ed. Andries Welkenhuysen, Herman Braet, and Werner Verbeke, Mediaevalia Lovaniensia, Ser. 1, 24 (Leuven, 1995).
Receptions of Antiquity, Constructions of Gender in European Art, 1300-1600, ed. Marice Rose and Alison C. Poe, Metaforms 3 (Leiden, 2015).
H. Hagendahl, Augustine and the Latin Classics (Göteborg, 1967). WorldCat
Classical Literature and Learning in Medieval Ireland, ed. Ralph O’Connor (Cambridge, 2014). WorldCat
For older references see Crosby et al., Medieval Studies: A Bibliographical Guide, pp. 643-49.
Websites:
Australasian Classical Reception Studies Network
Classical Reception Studies Network
Journals:
International Journal of the Classical Tradition
III. Manuscript Transmission of Classical Authors
Texts and Transmission: A Survey of the Latin Classics, ed. L. D. Reynolds (Oxford, 1983). WorldCat Includes entries on: Agrimensores; Ammianus Marcellinus; L. Ampelius; Anthologia Latina; Apicius; Apuleius; Aratea; Asconius; Ausonius; Avianus; Caelius Aurelianus; Caesar; Calpurnius and Nemesianus; Carmina Einsidlensia; Cato and Varro; Catullus; Celsus; Censorinus; Charisius; Cicero; Claudian; Columella; Consolatio ad Livium; Curtius Rufus; De Viris Illustribus; Aelius Donuts; Ti. Claudius Donuts; Eutropius; Sex. Pompeius Festus; Florus; Frontinus; Fronto; Gaius; Gallus; Aulus Gellius; Granius Licinianus; Grattus; Horace; Hyginus; Ilias Latina; Isidore; Julius Obsequens; Justinus; Juvenal; Laus Pisonus; Livy; Lucan; Lucretius; Macrobius; Manilius; Martial; Martianus Capella; Nemesianus; Cornelius Nepos; Nonius Marcellus; Notitia Dignitatum; Ovid; Pseudo-Ovid; Palladius; Panegyrici Latini; Julius Paris, Pomponius Mela, Vibius Sequester; Persius; Petronius; Phaedrus; Plautus; The Elder Pliny; The Younger Pliny; Priapea; Propertius; Publilius; Querolus; Quintilian; Rhetores Latini Minores; Rutilius Namatianus; Sallust; Appendix Sallustiana; Scribonius Largus; Scriptores Historiae Augustae; The Elder Seneca; The Younger Seneca; Q. Serenus; Servius; Silius Italicus; Solinus; Statius; Suetonius; Sulpicia; Tacitus; Terence; Tibullus; Valerius Flaccus; Valerius Maximus; Varro; Velleius Paterculus; Virgil; Appendix Virgiliana; Vitruvius.
Herbert Hunger, Geschichte der Textüberlieferung der antiken und mittelalterlichen Literatur, 2 vols. (Zurich, 1961-64). WorldCat
François Dolbeau and Pierre Petitmengin, Indices librorum: Catalogues anciens et moderns de manuscrits médiévaux en écriture latine, 2 vols.: 1: Sept ans de bibliographie (1977-1983) (Paris, 1987); 2: Sept ans de bibliographie (1983-1990) et compléments pour 1977-1983) (Paris, 1995). WorldCat The section “auteurs et thèmes” includes classical authors.
Manuscripts of the Latin Classics, ed. Erik Kwakkel (Leiden, 2015).
Medieval Manuscripts of the Latin Classics: Production and Use, ed. Claudine A. Chavannes-Mazel and Margaret Smith (Los Altos Hills CA, 1996). WorldCat
L. D. Reynolds and N. G. Wilson, Scribes and Scholars: A Guide to the Transmission of Greek and Latin Literature, 3rd ed. (Oxford, 1991). WorldCat
Franz Brunhölzl, “Zu den sogenannten codices archetypi der römischen Literatur,” in Festschrift Bernhard Bischoff zu seinem 65 Geburtstag, ed. Johanne Authenrieth and Franz Brunhölzl (Stuttgart, 1971), pp. 16-31.
Franz Brunhölzl, “Ein neues Bild der älteren Überlieferung der römischen Literatur,” in De litteris, manuscriptis, inscriptionibus … Festschrift zum 65. Geburtstag von Walter Koch, ed. Theo Kölzer et al. (Vienna, 2007), pp. 397-408.
Bernhard Bischoff, “Palaeography and the Transmission of Classical Texts in the Early Middle Ages”; “Benedictine Monasteries and the Survival of Classical Literature,” in Manuscripts and Libraries in the Age of Charlemagne, trans. Michael Gorman (Cambridge, 1994), pp. 115-60. WorldCat
Bernhard Bischoff, “Hardoard und die Klassikerhandschriften aus Corbie,” Mittelalterliche Studien: Ausgewählte aufsätze zur Schriftkunde und Literaturgeschichte, 3 vols. (Stuttgart, 1966-81), 1:49-62.
Günter Glauche, Schullektüre im Mittelalter. Entstehung und Wandlungen des Lektürekanons bis 1200 nach den Quellen dargestellt (Munich, 1970).
Birger Munk Olsen, “Chronique des manuscrits classiques latins (IXe-XIIe siecles),” Revue d’histoire des textes 21 (1991), 37-76; 24 (1994), 199-249; 30 (2000), 123-88; 32 (2002), 73-106. WorldCat
Birger Munk Olsen, I classici nel canone scolastico altomedievale (Spoleto, 1991).
Birger Munk Olsen, “Les classiques latins dans les florilèges médiévaux antérieurs au XIIIe siècle,” Revue d’histoire des textes 9 (1979), 47-121. WorldCat
Birger Munk Olsen, L’étude des auteurs classiques latins aux XIe et XIIe siècles, 4 vols. (Paris, 1982-2014). WorldCat
Birger Munk Olsen, “Les florilèges d’auteurs classiques,” in Les genres littéraires dans les sources théologiques et philosophiques médiévales. Définition, critique et exploitation. Actes du Colloque international de Louvain-la-Neuve, 25-27 mai 1981 (Louvain, 1982), pp. 151-64.
Birger Munk Olsen, “La popularité des textes classiques entre le ixe et le xiie siècle.” Revue d’Histoire des Textes 14-15 (1984-85), 169-81.
Formative Stages of Classical Traditions: Latin Texts from Antiquity to the Renaissance, ed. Oronzo Pecere and Michael D. Reeve (Spoleto, 1995). WorldCat
Max Manitius, Handschriften antiker autoren in mittelalterlichen Bibliotekskatalogen (Leipzig, 1935). WorldCat
Robert Black, “The Rise and Fall of the Latin Classics: the Evidence of Schoolbook Production in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Italy,” Ævum 91 (2017), 411-64.
R. Sabbadini, Le scoperte dei codici latini e greci nel secoli XIV e XV, ed. E. Garin (Florence 1967). WorldCat
Elisabeth Pellegrin et al., Les manuscrits classiques latins de la Bibliothèque Vaticane, 4 vols. (Paris, 1975-91). WorldCat
Lisardo Rubio Fernández, Catálogo de los manuscritos clásicos latinos existentes en España (Madrid, 1984). WorldCat
Collete Jeudy and Yves-François Riou, Les manuscrits classiques latins des bibliothèques de France (Paris, 1989- ). WorldCat
Italy and the Classical Tradition: Language, Thought and Poetry 1300-1600, ed. Carlo Caruso and A. Laird (2009).
T. J. Brown, “An Historical Introduction to the Use of Classical Latin Authors in the British Isles from the Fifth to the Eleventh Century,” in La cultura antica nell’Occidente Latino dal VII all’XI secolo, Settimane di studio del Centro italiano di studi sull’alto Medioevo 22 (1974), pp. 237-99.
David N. Dumville, The Early Medieval Insular Churches and the Preservation of Roman Literature: Towards a Historical and Palaeographical Reëvaluation, Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic Manuscript Studies 3 (Cambridge).
James G. Clark, “Monastic Manuscripts and the Transmission of the Classics in Late Medieval England,” in Vehicles of Transmission, Translation, and Transformation in Medieval Textual Culture, ed. Robert Wisnovsky et al. (Turnhout, 2011), pp. 335-52. WorldCat
Nemerkényi Előd, “Latin Classics in Medieval Libraries: Hungary in the Eleventh Century,” Acta Antiqua Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 43 (2003), 243-56.
Revue d’histoire des textes (1952- ).
IV. Medieval Commentaries on Classical Authors
The basic work is Paul Oskar Kristeller, ed., Catalogus translationum et commentariorum: Mediaeval and Renaissance Latin Translations and Commentaries. Annotated Lists and Guide, 8 vols. Washington, D. C., 1960- ). WorldCat
Paul Faider, Répertoire des éditions de scolies et commentaires d’auteurs latins, (Paris, 1931).
The bibliographies by Petitmengin and Munk Olsen and by Friis-Jensen and Olsen (see section I above) list both Greek and Latin commentaries on classical authors. See also Kaske, Medieval Christian Literary Imagery, pp. 116-31, for medieval commentaries on Virgil, Ovid, Lucan, Statius, Juvenal, Claudian, Martianus Capella, and Plato (Timaeus).
James E. G. Zetzel, Critics, Compilers, and Commentators: An Introduction to Roman Philology, 200 B.C.E – 800 C.E(Oxford, 2018). Chap. 11, “Commentaries,” provides a bibliographical guide to Roman and early medieval commentaries on Terence, Cicero, Virgil, Horace, Ovid, Germanicus, Persius, Lucan, Statius, and Juvenal.
E. A. Quain, “The Medieval accessus ad auctores,” Traditio 3 (1945), 215-64. WorldCat
Alastair Minnis and A. B. Scott, trans., Medieval Literary Theory and Criticism, c. 1100-1375: The Commentary Tradition, rev. ed. (Oxford, 1992). WorldCat
Jean-Yves Tilliette, “Une collection de commentaires aux classiques latins, le manuscrit de Berne, Bürgerbibliothek 411. Textes et contextes,” Interfaces 3 (2016), 162-78.
V. Some Major Latin Authors
For particular authors begin with the relevant chapter in Texts and Transmission: A Survey of the Latin Classics, ed. L. D. Reynolds (Oxford, 1983). WorldCat Follow up by consulting Dolbeau and Petitmengin, Indices librorum and the section “Fortleben” in Medioevo Latino (or simply search the Classical author or text in the Mirabile database). Below only a few essential references for select major authors can be given. For fuller listings and additional authors see Herren, “Classics in the Middle Ages,” Oxford Bibliographies
Cicero:
Cicero Refused to Die: Ciceronian Influence through the Centuries, ed. Nancy van Deusen (Leiden, 2013).
The Rhetoric of Cicero in Its Medieval and Early Renaissance Commentary Tradition, ed. John O. Ward and Virginia Cox (Leiden, 2006).
Horace:
Orazio: Enciclopedia oraziana, ed. Scevola Mariotti, 3 vols. (Rome, 1996-98).
A Companion to Horace, ed. Gregson Davis (Malden MA, 2010). See “Part IV: Reception of Horace.”
Claudia Villa, “I manoscritti di Orazio,” Aevum 66 (1992), 95-135; “I manoscritti di Orazio,” Aevum 67 (1993), 55-103; “I manoscritti di Orazio, III,” Aevum 68 (1994), 117-46.
Claudia Villa, “La tradizione di Orazio e la biblioteca di Carlo Magno”: per l’elenco di opere nel codice Berlin, Diez B Sant. 66,” in Formative Stages of Classical Traditions: Latin Texts from Antiquity to the Renaissance. Proceedings of a Conference held at Erice, 16-22 October 1993, ed. O. Pecere and M. Reeve (Spoleto, 1995), pp. 299-322.
Claudia Villa, “Commenti ed interpretazioni ad Orazio nel sec. XII,” in Il Commento e i suoi dintorni, ed. B. M. Da Rif (Padua, 2002), pp. 27-40.
Karsten Friis-Jensen, The Medieval Horace, ed. K. M. Fredborg et al. (Rome, 2015).
Karsten Friis-Jensen, “Medieval Commentaries on Horace,” in Medieval and Renaissance Scholarship, ed. Nicholas Mann and Birger Munk Olsen (Leiden, 1997), pp. 51-73.
Karsten Friis-Jensen, “Horace and the Early Writers of Arts of Poetry,” in Sprachtheorien in Spätantike und Mittelalter, ed. Sten Ebbesen (Tübingen, 1995), pp. 360-401.
Karsten Friis-Jensen, “The Ars Poetica in Twelfth-Century France: The Horace of Matthew of Vendôme, Geoffrey of Vinsauf, and John of Garland,” Cahiers de l’Institut du Moyen Âge grec et latin 60 (1990), 319-88.
Rita Copeland, “Horace’s Ars poetica in the Medieval Classroom and Beyond: The Horizons of Ancient Precept,” in Answerable Style: The Idea of the Literary in Medieval England, ed. Frank Grady and Andrew Galloway (Columbus OH, 2013), pp. 15-33.
Livy:
Catalogus Translationum entry; Addenda et Corrigenda
Lucan:
Peter van Moos, “Lucain au Moyen Âge,” in von Moos, Entre Histoire et Littérature: Communication et culture et Moyen Âge, Millennio Medievale 58 (Florence, 2005), pp. 89-204.
Christine Walde, Lucans bellum civile: Studien zum Spektrum seiner Rezeption von der Antike bis ins 19. Jahrhundert(Trier, 2009).
E. M. Sanford, “Quotations from Lucan in Medieval Latin Authors,” American Journal of Philology 55 (1934), 1-19.
Harold C. Gotoff, The Transmission of the Text of Lucan in the Ninth Century (Cambridge MA, 1971).
Lucretius:
Catalogus Translationum entry; Addenda et Corrigenda
David Butterfield, The Early Textual History of Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura (Cambridge, 2013).
Franz Brunhölzl, “Zur Überlieferung des Lukrez,” Hermes 90 (1962), 97-104.
Michael Reeve, “Lucretius in the Middle Ages and Early Renaissance: Transmission and Scholarship,” in The Cambridge Companion to Lucretius, ed. Stuart Gillespie and Philip Hardie (Cambridge, 2010), pp. 205-13. WorldCat
David Ganz, “Lucretius in the Carolingian Age: The Leiden Manuscripts and Their Carolingian Readers,” in Medieval Manuscripts of the Latin Classics: Production and Use, ed. Claudine A. Chavannes-Mazel and Margaret Smith (Los Altos Hills CA, 1996), pp. 91-102. WorldCat
Macrobius:
Bruce S. Eastwood, “Manuscripts of Macrobius, Commentarii in Somnium Scipionis, before 1500,” Manuscripta 38 (1994), 138-55.
Albrecht Hüttig, Macrobius im Mittelalter: Ein Beitrag zur Rezeptionsgeschichte der Commentarii in Somnium Scipionis, Freiburger Beiträge zur mittelalterlichen Geschichte 2 (Frankfurt a.M., 1990).
Birger Munk Olsen, “Quelques aspects de la diffusion du Somnium Scipionis de Cicéron au moyen âge,” Studia Romana in honoree Petri Karup septuagenarii, ed. Karen Ascani et al. (Odense, 1976), pp. 146-53.
Irene Caiazzo, Lectures médiévales de Macrobe: Les Glosae Colonienses super Macrobium, Études de philosophie médiévale 83 (Paris, 2002).
A. M. Peden, “Macrobius and Medieval Dream Literature,” Medium Ævum 54 (1985), 59-73.
Martianus Capella:
Catalogus Translationum entry; Addenda et Corrigenda
Carolingian Scholarship | Glosses on Martianus Capella
Claudio Leonardi, “I codici di Marziano Capella,” Aevum 33 (1959), 434-89.
Carolingian Scholarship and Martianus Capella: Ninth-Century Commentary Traditions on “De nuptiis’” in Context, ed. Mariken Teuwen and Sinéad O’Sullivan (Turnhout, 2011).
Mariken Teeuwen, Harmony and the Music of the Spheres: The “‘Ars Musica” in Ninth-Century Commentaries on Martianus Capella, Mittellateinische Studien und Texte 30 (Leiden, 2002), pp. 27-56. WorldCat
Glossae aevi Carolini in libros I-II Martiani Capellae De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii, ed. Sinéad O’Sullivan, CCCM 237 (Turnhout, 2010). WorldCat
Ovid:
Frank Coulson and Bruno Roy, Incipitarium Ovidianum: A Finding Guide for Texts Related to the Study of Ovid in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Publications of The Journal of Medieval Latin 3 (Turnhout, 2000).
Pierluigi Leone Gatti, Ovid in Antike und Mittelalter. Geschichte der philologischen Rezeption, Hermes Einzelschriften 106 (Stuttgart, 2014).
James Clark, Frank T. Coulson, and Kathryn L. McKinley, Ovid in the Middle Ages (Cambridge, 2011).
Birger Munk Olsen, “Ovide au moyen âge (du IXe au XIIe siècle),” in Munk Olsen, La réception de la littérature classique au moyen âge (IXe-XIIe siècle), pp. 71-94.
A Handbook to the Reception of Ovid, ed. John F. Miller and Carole E. Newlands (Malden MA, 2014). Includes seven essays on Ovid’s late-antique and medieval reception.
Ralph Hexter, Ovid and Medieval Schooling: Studies in Medieval School Commentaries on Ovid’s Ars amatoria, Epistulae ex Ponto, and Epistulae Heroidum (Munich, 1986).
Patrizia Lendinara, “Mixed Attitudes to Ovid: The Carolingian Poets and the Glossographers,” in Alcuin of York, ed. L. A. J. R. Houwen and A. A. MacDonald, Germania Latina III (Groningen, 1998), pp. 171-213.
Franco Munari, Ovid im Mittelalter (Zurich, 1960).
Amanda Gerber, Medieval Ovid: Frame Narrative and Political Allegory (New York 2015).
Marylène Possamaï-Pérez, L’Ovide moralisé: essai d’interprétation (Paris, 2006). WorldCat
Sallust:
Catalogus Translationum 8:183-326; Addenda and Corrigenda
Beryl Smalley, “Sallust in the Middle Ages,” in Classical Influences on European Culture A.D. 500-1500, ed. R. R. Bolgar (Cambridge, 1971), pp. 165-76.
E. Bolaffi, Sallustio e la sua fortuna nei secoli (Rome, 1949).
Statius:
Violetta De Angelis, “I commenti medievali alla Tebaide di Stazio: Anselmo di Laon, Goffredo Babione, Ilario d’Orléans,” in Medieval and Renaissance Scholarship: Proceedings of the Second European Science Foundation Workshop on the Classical Tradition in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (London, The Warburg Institute, 27–28 November 1992), ed. Nicholas Mann and Birger Munk Olsen (Leiden, 1997), pp. 75-136.
Dominique Battles,The Medieval Tradition of Thebes History and Narrative in the Roman de Thebes, Boccaccio, Chaucer, and Lydgate (New York, 2004). See chap. 1, “Introduction to Statius in the Middle Ages.”
H. J. Anderson, “Medieval Accessus to Statius” (unpubl. PhD diss. Ohio State University, 1997).
P. M. Clogan, “Medieval Glossed Manuscripts of the Thebaid,” Manuscripta 11 (1967), 1-2-12.
S. Fulgentii episcopi super Thebaiden, ed. R. Helm, in Fulgentius, Opera (Leipzig, 1898), pp. 18086.
Gregory Hayes, “The Pseudo-Fulgentian Super Thebaiden,” in Vertis in usum. Studies in Honor of Edward Courtney(Munich, 2002), pp. 200-18.
Valéry Berlincourt, Commenter la Thébaïde (16e-19e s.). Caspar von Barth et la tradition exégétique de Stace, Mnemosyne Supplements 354 (Leiden, 2013). See pp. 50-58 on medieval commentaries.
Terence:
John N. Grant, Studies in the Textual Tradition of Terence (Toronto, 1986).
E. K. Rand, “Early Medieval Commentaries on Terence,” Classical Philology 4 (1909), 359-89.
Claudia Villa, La “lectura Terentii.” Volume I: da Ildemaro a Francesco Petrarca (Padua, 1984).
S. Prete, Il codice di Terenzio Vaticano latino 3226 (Vatican City, 1970).
Scholia Terentiana, ed. Friedrich Schlee. (Leipzig, 1893).
Virgil:
Virgil in Late Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance: An Online Bibliography.
The Virgil Encyclopedia, 3 vols., ed. Richard F. Thomas and Jan Ziolkowski (Malden MA, 2013).
The Virgilian Tradition: The First Fifteen Hundred Years, ed. Jan Ziolkowski and Michael C. J. Putnam (New Haven CT, 2008).
Lectures médiévales de Virgile, Actes du colloque de Rome (25-28 octobre 1982) (Rome, 1985).
Pierre Courcelle and Jeanne Courcelle, Lecteurs païens et lecteurs chrétiens de l’Éneide, 2 vols. Mémoires de l’Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres, nouvelle série 4 (Paris, 1984).
Domenico Comparetti, Virgil in the Middle Ages, trans. E. F. M. Benecke (Princeton, 1997). 1895 ed.
Walter Berschin, “Glossierte Vergilhandschriften dreier Aetates Virgilianae,” in The Role of the Book in Medieval Culture, ed. Peter Ganz, 2 vols., Bibliologia 3-4 (Turnhout, 1986), II, 115-27.
Louis Holtz, “La redécouverte de Virgile aux VIIIe et IXe siècles d’après les manuscrits conservés,” in Lectures médiévales de Virgile. Acte du colloque organisé par l’Ecole française de Rome (Rome, 25–28 octobre 1982) (Rome, 1985), pp. 9-30.
Christopher Baswell, Virgil in Medieval England: Figuring The Aeneid from the Twelfth Century to Chaucer (Cambridge, 1995).
Marilynn Desmond, Reading Dido: Gender, Textuality and the Medieval Aeneid (London, 1994).
Shirley Werner, “A Bibliographic Guide to Vergil’s Aeneid“
Giorgio Brugnoli and Fabio Stok, Vitae vergilianae antiquae, Scriptores graeci et latini (Rome, 1997).
Servii grammatici qui feruntur in Vergilii carmina commentarii, ed. Georg Thilo and Hermann Hagen, 3 vols. (Leipzig, 1881-1902). vol. 1, vol. 2, vol. 3 part 1, vol. 3 part 2.
Servianorum in Vergilii carmina commentariorum editio Harvardiana volumen II, quod in Aeneidos libros I–II explanationes continet, ed. E. K. Rand et al. (Oxford, 1946).
Servianorum in Vergilii carmina commentariorum editio Harvardiana volumen III, quod in Aeneidos libros III–V explanationes continet, ed Arthur F. Stocker and Alber H. Travis (Oxford, 1965).
Scholia Bernensia in Vergilii Bucolica et Georgica, Bd. 2/1: In Georgica commentarii (Prooemium/Liber 1,1–42), ed. Luca Cadili (Amsterdam, 2003).
VI. Mythography
See Kaske, Medieval Christian Literary Imagery. WorldCat
Add:
Jess Paehlke and Shana Worthen, Mythography: Primary Sources; Secondary Sources. A bibliographical supplement to Chance, Medieval Mythography vol. 1 (below).
Jess Paehlke and Shana Worthen, Medieval Mythographic Illustrations
Bibliographie zum Nachleben des antiken Mythos
Jane Chance, The Mythographic Art: Classical Fable and the Rise of the Vernacular in Early France and England(Gainesville FL, 1990). WorldCat
Jane Chance, Medieval Mythography from Roman North Africa to the School of Chartres, A.D. 433-1177 (Gainesville FL, 1994). WorldCat
Jane Chance, Medieval Mythography: The Emergence of Italian Humanism, 1321 to 1475 (Gainesville FL, 2014).
Timothy Gantz, Early Greek Myth: A Guide to Literary and Artistic Sources (Baltimore MD, 1993). WorldCat
Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC) (Zurich and Munich, 1981–). WorldCat
Jane Davidson Reid, The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1300-1990s 2 vols. (Oxford, 1993). WorldCat Alphabetical by subject and name; lists Classical sources, followed by chronological list of allusions in primary sources with bibliographical references. Index of artists includes authors.
Lexikon der antiken Gestalten in den deutschen Texten des Mittelalters, ed. Manfred Kern and Alfred Ebenbauer in collaboration with Silvia Krämer-Seifert (Berlin, 2003). WorldCat Includes a survey, “Antikerezeption im Mittelalter und in der deutschen Literatur” as well as a bibliography; indices of entries by authors and works and variants of names.
Alan Cameron, Greek Mythography in the Roman World (Oxford, 2004).
Mythographi Vaticani I et II, ed. Péter Kulcsár, CCSL 91C (Turnhout, 1987).
Le Premier mythographe du Vatican, ed. Nevio Zorzetti and Jacques Berlioz, Collection des universités de France, Série latine (Paris, 1995).
The Vatican Mythographers, trans. Ronald E. Pepin (New York, 2008).
Fulgentius the Mythographer, trans. Leslie George Whitbread (Columbus OH, 1971).
VII. Transmission, Translation, and Influence of Greek Literature in the West
Charles H. Lohr, Traditio Classicorum: The Fortuna of Classical Authors to the Year 1650
Transmission of Classical Literature. Warburg Institute Library thematic catalogue, wide-ranging.
Greek Studies in XVth Century Europe
For Latin translations of Greek authors, see:
Kristeller, Catalogus translationum.
J. T. Muckle, “Greek Works Translated Directly into Latin before 1350,” Mediaeval Studies 4 (1942), 33-42; 5 (1943), 102-14. WorldCat
See also Berlioz, Identifier sources et citations, pp. 47-75; Friis-Jensen and Olsen, pp. 249-59.
Transmission et réception des Pères grecs dans l’Occident, de l’Antiquité tardive à la Renaissance. Entre philologie, herméneutique et théologie. Actes du colloque international organisé du 26 au 28 novembre 2014 à l’Université de Strasbourg, Collection des Études Augustiniennes, Série Moyen Âge et Temps modernes, 53, ed. Emanuela Prinzivalli, Françoise Vinel, and Michele Cutino (Turnhout, 2016). WorldCat
Nobilitas: DB Anima (parallel-column texts of four medieval Latin translations of Aristotle’s De anima).
For the transmission of Greek texts in the Latin Middle Ages:
Albert Siegmund, Die Überlieferung der griechischen christlichen Literatur in der lateinischen Kirche bis zum zwölften Jahrhundert (Munich-Pasing, 1949). WorldCat
Facsimiles of Munich manuscripts cited by Siegmund.
For the use of Greek in Latin texts:
For Latin works falsely attributed to Greek authors:
Charles B. Schmitt and Dilwyn Knox, Pseudo-Aristoteles Latinus. A Guide to Latin Works Falsely Attributed to Aristotle before 1500, Warburg Institute Surveys and Texts 12 (London, 1985).
General Studies:
Bernhard Bischoff, “Das griechische Element in der abendländischen Bildung des Mittelalters,” in Bischoff, Mittelalterliche Studien, 3 vols. (Stuttgart, 1966-81) II, 246-75. WorldCat
Pierre Courcelle, Late Latin Writers and Their Greek Sources (Cambridge MA, 1969). WorldCat
Walter Berschin, Greek Letters and the Latin Middle Ages: From Jerome to Nicholas of Cusa, rev. ed. trans. J. C. Frakes (Washington, D.C., 1988). WorldCat
The Sacred Nectar of the Greeks: The Study of Greek in the West in the Early Middle Ages, ed. Michael W. Herren, King’s College London Medieval Studies 2 (London, 1988). WorldCat
Bernice M. Kaczynski, Greek in the Carolingian Age: The St. Gall Manuscripts (Boston, 1988). WorldCat
For translations of classical texts into medieval vernaculars, see “The Translations of Greek and Roman Classics before 1600,” Appendix I in Bolgar, The Classical Heritage, pp. 506-41.
On Hebrew:
Matthias Thiel, “Grundlagen und Gestalt der Hebräischkenntnisse des frühen Mittelalters,” Studi Medievali (1969), 4-212. WorldCat
Gilbert Dahan, “Lexiques hébreu/latin? Les receuils d’interprétations des noms hébraiques,” in Les manuscrits des lexiques et glossaires de l’antiquité tardive à la fin du moyen âge, Textes et études du moyen âge 4 (Louvain-la-Neuve, 1996), pp. 480-526.
Gilbert Dahan, Les intellectuels chrétiens et les juifs au moyen âge (Paris, 2007).
Hebrew Scholarship in the Medieval World, ed. Nicholas de Lange (Cambridge, 2001).
Wilhelm Bacher, Die Anfänge der hebräischen Grammatik (1895), together with Die hebräische Sprachwissenschaft vom 10. bis zum 16. Jahrhundert (1892), Studies in the History of the Language Sciences 4 (Amsterdam, 1974), repr. with supplements.
Moritz Steinschneider, The Hebrew Translations of the Middle Ages and the Jews as Transmitters, trans. and ed. Charles H. Manekin, Y. Tzvi Langermann, and Hans Hinrich Biesterfeldt, Amsterdam Studies in Jewish Philosophy 16 (Dordrecht, 2013).
Charles Singer, “Hebrew Scholarship in the Middle Ages among Latin Christians,” in The Legacy of Israel, ed. E. R. Bevan and Charles Singer (Oxford, 1928), pp. 283-314.
Raphael Loewe, “The Medieval Christian Hebraists of England. Herbert of Bosham and Earlier Scholars,” Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England 17 (1951/52), 245-49.
On Arabic:
A Digital Corpus for Graeco-Arabic Studies
Wissen über Grenzen. Arabisches Wissen und lateinisches Mittelalter, ed. Andreas Speer and Lydia Wegener (Berlin, 2006).
Hans-Peter Hebel, Arabische Kultur und europäisches Mittelalter (Munich, 2013).
F. Wüstenfeld, “Die Übersetzungen arabischer Werke ins lateinische seit dem XI. Jahrhundert,” Abhandlungen der königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften in Göttingen 22 (1877). WorldCat
Wissen über Grenzen: Arabisches Wissen und lateinisches Mittelalter, ed. Andreas Speer und Lydia Wegen (Berlin, 2006). WorldCat
Aspects of the Islamic Influence on Science and Learning in the Christian West (12th-13th Century). Includes a bibliography of over 100 items.
The Reception of Islamic Philosophy in the Latin West: Texts and Studies, ed. Fuat Sezgin, Carl Ehrig-Eggert, and Eckhard Neubauer (Frankfurt, 2007). WorldCat
The Introduction of Arabic Philosophy into Europe, ed. Charles E. Butterworth and Blake Andrée Kessel (Leiden, 1998). WorldCat
Charles Burnett, The Arabic-Latin Translators (list of his publications).
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