The Berlin commentary on Martianus Capella's de Nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii. / Book II / / edited by Haijo Jan Westra, Tanja Kupke ; with assistance Benjamin Garstad, Martianus Capella.

• Superior document: Mittellateinische Studien und Texte ; 23
• TeilnehmendeR: Kupke, Tanja,; Westra, Haijo Jan, 1947-; Garstad, Benjamin,; Martianus Capella,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, New York ;, Koln : : Brill,, [1998]; ©1998
• Year of Publication: 1998
• Language: English
• Series: Mittellateinische Studien und Texte ; 23.; Mittellateinische Studien und Texte Online.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (211 pages)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Completing Prof. Westra's 1994 edition of Book I (published by Brill as Mittellateinische Studien und Texte, 20 ), this critical edition presents the only complete, late medieval Latin commentary on Book II of Martianus Capella's influential handbook of the Seven Liberal Arts. It also provides an Index of Proper Names to both Book I and II. Using his allegorical interpretation of the programmatic marriage of Mercury (eloquence) and Philology (learning) as a speculative, proto-scientific method of enquiry, the commentator provides encyclopedic coverage of medieval philosophy, theology, science, myth, language, literature and education. Intellectually the author is still connected with early scholasticism and the School of Chartres, being more sympathetic to Neoplatonism than to the newly arrived Aristotelians. The present edition has been keyed to Dick's as well as Willis' edition of Martianus Capella.

Table of Contents

Cohaerentia praecedentis volumin -- De regula novenaria -- Integumentum experimenti numeralis -- De medicamentis et incantationib -- De Introductione Philogiaein -- De ladubus Philologiae in comic -- De Artibus et Musis -- De semidivis -- De Artibus Liveralibus -- De Iside Serapide et Osiri.