The Berlin Commentary on Martianus Capella's De Nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii Book I : : With the Assistance of C. Vester / / edited by Haijo Jan Westra.

• Superior document: Mittellateinische Studien und Texte ; 20
• TeilnehmendeR: Westra, Haijo Jan,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden; , Boston : : Brill,, 1994.
• Year of Publication: 1994
• Language: English; Latin
• Series: Mittellateinische Studien und Texte ; 20.; Mittellateinische Studien und Texte Online.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (405 pages)

This critical edition presents the only complete, later medieval Latin commentary on the first two books of Martianus Capella's influential handbook of the Seven Liberal Arts. Using his allegorical interpretation of the programmatic marriage of Mercury (eloquence) and Philology (learning) as a speculative, proto-scientific method of inquiry, 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 Aristotelianism. He is particularly interested in the role of good works which he sees revealed sub integumento in the function of Iuno in the Capitoline trinity. The commentary seems to have been designed with a reading audience and a reference in mind. The present edition has been keyed to Dick's as well as Willis' editions of Martianus Capella.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements -- Prolegomena to the Edition of Post-Carolingian -- Commentaries on Martianus Capella's De Nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii, Books I-II -- Notes on the Text, Author, Date and Place of the Commentary -- Abbreviations -- The Commentary -- Index.