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Title Details
348 Pages
23.4 x 15.6 cm
Series: Scottish Text Society Fifth Series
Series Vol. Number:
18
Imprint: Scottish Text Society
Eneados: Gavin Douglas's Translation of Virgil's Aeneid
Volume II: Books I-VII
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Second volume of a major new edition of Douglas's Eneados, containing a substantially revised and corrected text of Books I-VII 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, Volume II provides the text and variants for Books I-VII; Vol. III will provide the text and variants for Books VIII-XIII.
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, Volume II provides the text and variants for Books I-VII; Vol. III will provide the text and variants for Books VIII-XIII.
Preface and Acknowledgements
Prologue I
Book I
Prologue II
Book II
Prologue III
Book III
Prologue IV
Book IV
Prologue V
Book V
Prologue VI
Book VI
Prologue VII
Book VII
VARIANT READINGS
Book I
Book II
Book III
Book IV
Book V
Book VI
Book VII
Prologue I
Book I
Prologue II
Book II
Prologue III
Book III
Prologue IV
Book IV
Prologue V
Book V
Prologue VI
Book VI
Prologue VII
Book VII
VARIANT READINGS
Book I
Book II
Book III
Book IV
Book V
Book VI
Book VII
Hardcover
9781897976432
December 2021
$85.00 / £60.00
Title Details
348 Pages
2.34 x 1.56 cm
Series: Scottish Text Society Fifth Series
Series Vol. Number:
18
Imprint: Scottish Text Society