Karl Enenkel is Professor of Latin Philology of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität (WWU), Münster. Henk Nellen is Research Fellow at the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands and Professor in the History of Ideas in the Early Modern Period at Erasmus University, Rotterdam.

This collection amounts to a taxonomy of commentaries and may actually prove more useful than a theory would have been.David Scott Wilson-Okamura, THE NEO-LATIN NEWS Vol. 63, Nos. 1&2

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionNeo-Latin Commentaries and the Management of Knowledge1. The Neo-Latin Commentary (1400-1700): A Forgotten and Misunderstood Genre2. The increased importance of the commentary and other paratexts in the early modern period3. The commentary as an open genre. The early modern commentary’s tendency toward emancipation from the source text4. The kaleidoscopic functions of the early modern commentarya. The commentary as a means of authorizationb. The commentary as an educational tool at schools and universitiesc. Early modern commentaries as encyclopedias of learningd. Commentaries and textual criticisme. Commentaries and the cultural history of antiquity (ars antiquitatis)f. Political commentaryg. Commentaries as stimuli for social cohesion and as polemical platformsh. Parafrasis as literary exercisei. Manuscript annotations in printed books5. The layout of the early modern commentary6. Indexing7. Related genres: variae lectiones, dictionarium (dictionary) and encyclopedia8. The commentary in historical perspective9. The present volume96085_Enenkel&Nellen_vw.indd 5 10/06/13 13:10I. Historical and geographical collections of knowledgeKarl Enenkel (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster)Kommentare als multivalente Wissenssammlungen: Das ‘Fürstenspiegel’-Kommentarwerk Antonio Beccadellis (De dictis et factis Alphonsi Regis Aragonum, 1455), Enea Silvio Piccolominis (1456) und Jakob Spiegels (1537)Susanna de Beer (Leiden University)The World Upside Down: The Geographical Revolution in Humanist Commentaries on Pliny’s Natural History and Mela’s De situ orbis (1450-1700)II. Classical PoetryCraig Kallendorf (Texas A&M University, College Station)Virgil and the Ethical Commentary: Philosophy, Commonplaces, and the Structure of Renaissance KnowledgeChristoph Pieper (Leiden University)Horatius praeceptor eloquentiae. The Ars Poetica in Cristoforo Landino’s CommentaryMarianne Pade (Aarhus University)Niccolò Perotti’s Cornu copiae: The Commentary as a Repository of KnowledgeValéry Berlincourt (Université de Genève)‘Going beyond the Author’: Caspar von Barth’s Observations on the Art of Commentary-Writing and his Use of ExegeticalDigressionsIII. DramaJan Bloemendal (Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands, The Hague)In the Shadow of Donatus: Observations on Terence and Some of his Early Modern CommentatorsVolkhard Wels (Berlin)Contempt for Commentators: Transformation of the Commentary Tradition in Daniel Heinsius’ Constitutio tragoediaeIV. LawWillem J. Zwalve (Leiden University)Text & Commentary: The Legal Middle Ages and the Roman Law Tradition: Justinian’s Const. Omnem and its MedievalCommentatorsBernard H. Stolte (University of Groningen)Text and Commentary: Legal HumanismV. BibleBernd Roling (Freie Universität Berlin)Animalische Sprache und Intelligenz im Schriftkommentar: Bileams Esel in der Bibelkommentierung des Mittelalters und der NeuzeitHenk Nellen (Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands, The Hague)Bible Commentaries as a Platform for Polemical Debate: Abraham Calovius versus Hugo GrotiusJetze Touber (Utrecht University)Philology and Theology: Commenting the Old Testament in the Dutch Republic, 1650-1700Notes on the ContributorsIndex

Karl Enenkel is Professor of Latin Philology of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität (WWU), Münster. Henk Nellen is Research Fellow at the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands and Professor in the History of Ideas in the Early Modern Period at Erasmus University, Rotterdam.

This collection amounts to a taxonomy of commentaries and may actually prove more useful than a theory would have been.David Scott Wilson-Okamura, THE NEO-LATIN NEWS Vol. 63, Nos. 1&2

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionNeo-Latin Commentaries and the Management of Knowledge1. The Neo-Latin Commentary (1400-1700): A Forgotten and Misunderstood Genre2. The increased importance of the commentary and other paratexts in the early modern period3. The commentary as an open genre. The early modern commentary’s tendency toward emancipation from the source text4. The kaleidoscopic functions of the early modern commentarya. The commentary as a means of authorizationb. The commentary as an educational tool at schools and universitiesc. Early modern commentaries as encyclopedias of learningd. Commentaries and textual criticisme. Commentaries and the cultural history of antiquity (ars antiquitatis)f. Political commentaryg. Commentaries as stimuli for social cohesion and as polemical platformsh. Parafrasis as literary exercisei. Manuscript annotations in printed books5. The layout of the early modern commentary6. Indexing7. Related genres: variae lectiones, dictionarium (dictionary) and encyclopedia8. The commentary in historical perspective9. The present volume96085_Enenkel&Nellen_vw.indd 5 10/06/13 13:10I. Historical and geographical collections of knowledgeKarl Enenkel (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster)Kommentare als multivalente Wissenssammlungen: Das ‘Fürstenspiegel’-Kommentarwerk Antonio Beccadellis (De dictis et factis Alphonsi Regis Aragonum, 1455), Enea Silvio Piccolominis (1456) und Jakob Spiegels (1537)Susanna de Beer (Leiden University)The World Upside Down: The Geographical Revolution in Humanist Commentaries on Pliny’s Natural History and Mela’s De situ orbis (1450-1700)II. Classical PoetryCraig Kallendorf (Texas A&M University, College Station)Virgil and the Ethical Commentary: Philosophy, Commonplaces, and the Structure of Renaissance KnowledgeChristoph Pieper (Leiden University)Horatius praeceptor eloquentiae. The Ars Poetica in Cristoforo Landino’s CommentaryMarianne Pade (Aarhus University)Niccolò Perotti’s Cornu copiae: The Commentary as a Repository of KnowledgeValéry Berlincourt (Université de Genève)‘Going beyond the Author’: Caspar von Barth’s Observations on the Art of Commentary-Writing and his Use of ExegeticalDigressionsIII. DramaJan Bloemendal (Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands, The Hague)In the Shadow of Donatus: Observations on Terence and Some of his Early Modern CommentatorsVolkhard Wels (Berlin)Contempt for Commentators: Transformation of the Commentary Tradition in Daniel Heinsius’ Constitutio tragoediaeIV. LawWillem J. Zwalve (Leiden University)Text & Commentary: The Legal Middle Ages and the Roman Law Tradition: Justinian’s Const. Omnem and its MedievalCommentatorsBernard H. Stolte (University of Groningen)Text and Commentary: Legal HumanismV. BibleBernd Roling (Freie Universität Berlin)Animalische Sprache und Intelligenz im Schriftkommentar: Bileams Esel in der Bibelkommentierung des Mittelalters und der NeuzeitHenk Nellen (Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands, The Hague)Bible Commentaries as a Platform for Polemical Debate: Abraham Calovius versus Hugo GrotiusJetze Touber (Utrecht University)Philology and Theology: Commenting the Old Testament in the Dutch Republic, 1650-1700Notes on the ContributorsIndex

Karl Enenkel is Professor of Latin Philology of the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität (WWU), Münster. Henk Nellen is Research Fellow at the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands and Professor in the History of Ideas in the Early Modern Period at Erasmus University, Rotterdam.

This collection amounts to a taxonomy of commentaries and may actually prove more useful than a theory would have been.David Scott Wilson-Okamura, THE NEO-LATIN NEWS Vol. 63, Nos. 1&2

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionNeo-Latin Commentaries and the Management of Knowledge1. The Neo-Latin Commentary (1400-1700): A Forgotten and Misunderstood Genre2. The increased importance of the commentary and other paratexts in the early modern period3. The commentary as an open genre. The early modern commentary’s tendency toward emancipation from the source text4. The kaleidoscopic functions of the early modern commentarya. The commentary as a means of authorizationb. The commentary as an educational tool at schools and universitiesc. Early modern commentaries as encyclopedias of learningd. Commentaries and textual criticisme. Commentaries and the cultural history of antiquity (ars antiquitatis)f. Political commentaryg. Commentaries as stimuli for social cohesion and as polemical platformsh. Parafrasis as literary exercisei. Manuscript annotations in printed books5. The layout of the early modern commentary6. Indexing7. Related genres: variae lectiones, dictionarium (dictionary) and encyclopedia8. The commentary in historical perspective9. The present volume96085_Enenkel&Nellen_vw.indd 5 10/06/13 13:10I. Historical and geographical collections of knowledgeKarl Enenkel (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster)Kommentare als multivalente Wissenssammlungen: Das ‘Fürstenspiegel’-Kommentarwerk Antonio Beccadellis (De dictis et factis Alphonsi Regis Aragonum, 1455), Enea Silvio Piccolominis (1456) und Jakob Spiegels (1537)Susanna de Beer (Leiden University)The World Upside Down: The Geographical Revolution in Humanist Commentaries on Pliny’s Natural History and Mela’s De situ orbis (1450-1700)II. Classical PoetryCraig Kallendorf (Texas A&M University, College Station)Virgil and the Ethical Commentary: Philosophy, Commonplaces, and the Structure of Renaissance KnowledgeChristoph Pieper (Leiden University)Horatius praeceptor eloquentiae. The Ars Poetica in Cristoforo Landino’s CommentaryMarianne Pade (Aarhus University)Niccolò Perotti’s Cornu copiae: The Commentary as a Repository of KnowledgeValéry Berlincourt (Université de Genève)‘Going beyond the Author’: Caspar von Barth’s Observations on the Art of Commentary-Writing and his Use of ExegeticalDigressionsIII. DramaJan Bloemendal (Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands, The Hague)In the Shadow of Donatus: Observations on Terence and Some of his Early Modern CommentatorsVolkhard Wels (Berlin)Contempt for Commentators: Transformation of the Commentary Tradition in Daniel Heinsius’ Constitutio tragoediaeIV. LawWillem J. Zwalve (Leiden University)Text & Commentary: The Legal Middle Ages and the Roman Law Tradition: Justinian’s Const. Omnem and its MedievalCommentatorsBernard H. Stolte (University of Groningen)Text and Commentary: Legal HumanismV. BibleBernd Roling (Freie Universität Berlin)Animalische Sprache und Intelligenz im Schriftkommentar: Bileams Esel in der Bibelkommentierung des Mittelalters und der NeuzeitHenk Nellen (Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands, The Hague)Bible Commentaries as a Platform for Polemical Debate: Abraham Calovius versus Hugo GrotiusJetze Touber (Utrecht University)Philology and Theology: Commenting the Old Testament in the Dutch Republic, 1650-1700Notes on the ContributorsIndex