Questions of Love and Authorship in Parisinus Latinus 7972: A Previously Unedited Poem and Its Relationship with the De Ermafrodito
Louis Zweig
Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS lat. 7972 (saec. X, France?) is a well attested witness to the works of Horace. After scribe finished writing Carmen saeculare on fol. 85r, three and half leaves remained before start Epistles, which coincided with beginning next gathering. These pages contain number poems, last rhythmical love poem that has unmentioned in scholarship. On 106r, first lines De ermafrodito, been attributed Hildebertus Cenomanensis (1056-1133), appear same hand. This article presents edition anonymous poem, along translation justification my interpretation its meaning. It also explores ramifications this early opening ermafrodito.
The Journal of medieval Latin