Le Juvénal des Carolingiens à la lumière du Ms Cambridge King’s College 52
Veronika Von Büren
Since the nineteenth century, Heiric ‘of Auxerre’, as he is usually called, has been credited with a commentary on Juvenal’s Satires attributed in some late manuscripts to Cornutus. No earlier manuscript evidence ever found for Heiric’s authorship. The that now Cambridge King’s College 52, privately owned until 1954 and ignored by all editors of Juvenal, furnishes oldest testimony Nicaean subscription contains one richest sets glosses ninth-century manuscripts. On paleographical grounds it can be considered product scriptorium Hincmar Rheims, its text belongs Knoche’s lambda family, held go back Antiquity. Its marginal commentary, copied along text, contains, condensed form, most information vulgate ‘Cornutus commentary’. Some glosses, added later, hand Heiric. Most this material also appears commentary. makes possible recognize Carolingian contribution what mostly late-antique Thus, advances our understanding approach Roman satire, which fact seems quite limited largely concerned prosody.
Antiquité tardive