Reading Horace From the Margins: Explorations in the Marginal Commentary of Leiden, ms. VLO 6
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2019-03-03
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Central to this thesis is an annotated Horatian manuscript from the Bibliotheca Vossiana in Leiden, which will be examined from multiple perspectives, combining a detailed study of the book as a historical object with the undertaking of disclosing, editing, and understanding the notes written in its margins. Using conceptual tools originating in both book-history and modern commentary theory, I argue that the commentary in Leiden, ms. VLO 6 is best understood as a layered, manifold collection of notes, having likely originated in a humanistic educational context, though being simultaneously anchored in the medieval commentary tradition on Horace. In its selectivity, usage of various sources, and references to parallel texts, the commentary emerges as a prime example of the ways in which the commentator’s authoritative voice is constructed, while simultaneously suggesting at times a more active role for its reader.
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