Il Reg. Lat. 1625: un nuovo testimone di Servius auctus 'brevior' ad Aen. V-VI

The essay sets out to examine the history and content of a few folios (69r-73v) collected in the miscellaneous Vatican Codex Reg. Lat. 1625. The ninth century parchment section, probably from St Benoît-sur-Loire, transmits an abridged and fragmentary version of the Virgilian Commentary of Servius auctus ad Aen. V-VI. Although the text was already known to Pierre Daniel, it has been so far neglected by the editors of Servius’s Commentaries. In this study it is examined in its relationship with others of Daniel’s witnesses and it can potentially prove useful for the constitutio textus. The commentary of the Reg. is enriched with further exegetic material to be found in the body itself of the commentary, as well as in the margins and spacings of the text. Among these sources there are: Tiberius Claudius Donatus, the so-called Glossarium Ansileubi and the First Vatican Mythographer