Reading Ovid in medieval Wales / Paul Russell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Russell, Paul, 1956 February 23- author.

Series:

Text and context (Columbus, Ohio)

Text and context

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. Ars amatoria.

Ovid.

Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D--Language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.

Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D--Criticism and interpretation.

Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.

Ars amatoria (Ovid).

Welsh language--To 1100--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.

Welsh language.

Love poetry, Latin--History and criticism.

Love poetry, Latin.

Manuscripts, Medieval--Wales.

Manuscripts, Medieval.

Language and languages.

Criticism and interpretation.

Wales.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.

Controlled vocabularies.

Physical Description:

xx, 291 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2017]

Summary:

Reading Ovid in Medieval Wales provides the first complete edition and discussion of the earliest surviving fragment of Ovid's Ars amatoria, or The Art of Love, which derives from ninth-century Wales; the manuscript, which is preserved in Oxford, is heavily glossed mainly in Latin but also in Old Welsh. This study, by Classical and Celtic scholar Paul Russell, discusses the significance of the manuscript for classical studies and how it was absorbed into the classical Ovidian tradition. This volume's main focus, however, is on the glossing and commentary and what these can teach us about the pedagogical approaches to Ovid's text in medieval Europe and Britain and, more specifically, in Wales. Russell argues that this annotated version of the Ars amatoria arose out of the teaching traditions of the Carolingian world and that the annotation, as we have it, was the product of a cumulative process of glossing and commenting on the text. He then surveys other glossed Ovid manuscripts to demonstrate how that accumulation was built up. Russell also explores the fascinating issue of why Ovid's love poetry should be used to teach Latin verse in monastic contexts. Finally, he discusses the connection between this manuscript and the numerous references to Ovid in later Welsh poetry, suggesting that the Ovidian references should perhaps be taken to refer to love poetry more generically. Book jacket.

Contents:

Ovid, Ars amatoria, Book I ; Previous Scholarship ; The Main Text of Ars amatoria ; The Welsh Glossing ; The Latin Glossing ; Oxford, Bodleian Library MS, Auct. F. 4. 32, fols. 37r-47r: The Main Text ; Facsimile Images ; Page Layout ; Collation ; Scribes ; Decoration ; Oxford, Bodleian Library MS, Auct. F. 4. 32, fols. 37r-47r: The Glosses and Marginal Annotations ; The Nature of the Glossing: (a) The Glossing of Latin Verse (b) Construe Marks (c) The Order of Glossing (d) Latin Glosses and Comment (e) Old Welsh Glosses (f) Glosses of Uncertain Origin (g) On Misunderstanding Ovid (h) Evidence for an Irish Element in the Glossing

The Learned Context: Other Glossed Manuscripts of Ovid's Ars amatoria I ; The Glossed Manuscripts of Ovid, Ars amatoria I ; St Gall, Stiftsbibliothek, 821(Sa) ; London, British Library, Additional 14086 (A) ; Bern, Burgerbibliothek 478 (B) ; Paris BN Latin 15155 (excerpts) (p2) ; Oxford, Bodleian Library, Canon. Class. 1 (S.C. 18582) (Ob) ;Oxford, Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Q. d. 19 (S.C. 16044) (o) ; London, British Library, Additional 49369 (olim Holkham 322) (H) ; Perpignan, Mediatheque, 19 (olim Bibliotheque municipale, 10) (W) ; Oxford, Bodleian Library, Canon. Class. 18 (S.C. 18599) (Og) ; Significant Parallel Glosses ; Glosses Which Can Help in Understanding O

Ovid, Ars amatoria I: Edition

Notes to the Edition ; Old Welsh Orthography ; Vowels ; Consonants ; Notes

Postscript: The Later Life of Ovid in Medieval Wales ; Ofydd: Poet, Love Poet, and Love Poetry ; The Cywyddwyr and Ofydd ; Knowledge of Classical Texts in Medieval Wales, 900-1400 ; Surviving Books and Monastic Catalogues ; Intertextual Knowledge of Classical Texts in Medieval Wales ; Education in Medieval Wales.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-256) and index.

ISBN:

9780814213223

0814213227

OCLC:

960089185

Publisher Number:

99972005291