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First volume in a new edition of Douglas's "Eneados", providing a comprehensive introduction and commentary.
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.D.F.C. Coldwell's four-volume modern edition of it was published in 1957-64 for the Scottish Text Society, but for some time now has needed revision.
This new edition will provide a corrected version of Coldwell's text and variants in subsequent volumes. The first volume, here, the Introduction and Commentary, offers a wealth of new scholarship, comparing Douglas's text to his exact Latin source (first identified by Professor Bawcutt in a 1973 essay reprinted here); vastly expanding the Commentary; offering detailed new analysis of the manuscript and print witnesses to the text and its early reception and circulation; and surveying modern Douglas criticism. There is also a new Bibliography.
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.D.F.C. Coldwell's four-volume modern edition of it was published in 1957-64 for the Scottish Text Society, but for some time now has needed revision.
This new edition will provide a corrected version of Coldwell's text and variants in subsequent volumes. The first volume, here, the Introduction and Commentary, offers a wealth of new scholarship, comparing Douglas's text to his exact Latin source (first identified by Professor Bawcutt in a 1973 essay reprinted here); vastly expanding the Commentary; offering detailed new analysis of the manuscript and print witnesses to the text and its early reception and circulation; and surveying modern Douglas criticism. There is also a new Bibliography.
Price: $85.00
Pages: 386
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Inc.
Imprint: Scottish Text Society
Series: Scottish Text Society Fifth Series
Publication Date:
18 September 2020
Trim Size: 9.21 X 6.14 in
ISBN: 9781897976425
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German
An immense amount of time and energy has clearly been expended on the creation of this new edition, to great advantage. This is likely to be the first print edition to provide the text of the Eneados in the form closest to Douglas' original. The material this volume contains is in itself sufficient to indicate that the complete edition will serve as an apt summation of Priscilla Bawcutt's long and highly distinguished career. This edition will no doubt generate, and serve as a foundational text for, work on the poem for many years to come.
INTRODUCTION
The Eneados and its Author
The Text of the Eneados
Later Editions
The Present Edition
Appendix to the Introduction: Priscilla J. Bawcutt, 'Gavin Douglas and the Text of Virgil', originally published in Edinburgh Bibliographical Society Transactions 4 (1973), pp. 213-31
COMMENTARY
The Eneados and its Author
The Text of the Eneados
Later Editions
The Present Edition
Appendix to the Introduction: Priscilla J. Bawcutt, 'Gavin Douglas and the Text of Virgil', originally published in Edinburgh Bibliographical Society Transactions 4 (1973), pp. 213-31
COMMENTARY