The Eneados: Gavin Douglas's Translation of Virgil's Aeneid

Volume III: Book VIII-XIII
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-1-897976-44-9
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, Band 19, 340 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 726 g

Reihe: Scottish Text Society Fifth Series

Third and final volume of a new edition of Douglas's Eneados, containing a substantially revised and corrected text of Books VIII-XIII plus appendix of textual variants.

Although Virgil's Aeneid was one of the most widely admired works of the European Middle Ages, the first complete translation to appear in any form of English was Gavin Douglas's magisterial verse rendering into Older Scots, completed in 1513, which he called the "Eneados". It included not only the twelve books of Virgil's original, but a thirteenth, added by the Italian humanist scholar Maphaeus Vegius, and lively, original prologues to every book.

This new edition, the first for over sixty years, is based on Cambridge, Trinity College Library MS O.3.12 and presents a substantially revised and corrected version of the previous version's text and variants. Following from the first volume, containing a vastly expanded Introduction and Commentary, and volume II, providing the text and variants for Books VIII-XII, Volume III completes the edition with the text and variants for Books VIII-XIII.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bawcutt, Priscilla

Weitere Mitwirkende

Cunningham, Ian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Prologue VIII

Book VIII

Prologue IX

Book IX

Prologue X

Book X

Prologue XI

Book XI

Prologue XII

Book XII

Prologue XIII

Book XIII

VARIANT READINGS
Book VIII
Book IX
Book X
Book XI
Book XII
Book XIII

Über Autor(innen)

Bawcutt, Priscilla
PRISCILLA BAWCUTT, honorary professor at the University of Liverpool, was one of the most distinguished contemporary scholars of Older Scots. She edited The Poems of William Dunbar for the Association of Scottlish Literary Studies (1997/8), and The Shorter Poems of Gavin Douglas for the Scottish Text Society (revised 2003); she has written very widely and deeply on all aspects of Older Scots literature, includingher foundational study, Gavin Douglas (1976). IAN C. CUNNINGHAM, former Keeper of Manuscripts at the National Library of Scotland, has published extensively on Latin and Older Scots manuscripts, and edited and translated Theophrastus