Pieter Burman on the Ciris : unpublished notes on the pseudo-vergilian epyllion

Includes bibliographical references.

In a letter written on 8 November 1713 in Utre­cht and addressed to Gisbert Cuper, the Dutch classical scholar Pieter Burman the Elder (1668- 1741) noted down several textual remarks on the Latin text of the Ciris, a brief mythological pseudo-Vergilian poem included in the Appendix Vergiliana. Burman died while preparing the edi­tion of Vergil's complete work, including the Ciris (which perhaps he planned on correcting along the lines expressed in the letter); this legacy was left to his nephew, Pieter Burman the Younger. The present work consists of a transcription and a detailed study of Pieter Burman's unpublished handwritten notes to the Ciris, with preliminary remarks on the authorship and the chronology of the epyllion, a survey of the sources used (the printed editions and the Codex Basileensis), and a commentary on the preface to Burman's 1746 posthumous edition of Vergil. [Publisher's text]

Pieter Burman (1668-1741).