The July Poems in the Chronography of 354
The July Poems in the Chronography of 354
The image for July is preserved once again only in a single manuscript of the Chronography, MS Vienna 3146, which never contains the text of the poems, only the pictures. So for the text of the poems, once again we are reliant on other, unillustrated, manuscripts, or the indirect tradition. Here is the 4-line poem (tetrastich), with the draft translation that I made earlier in the year. Comments…
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