Source: Textual EditionAldhelm.EpArcic

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Author Aldhelm
Source Title Letter to Arcicius on the Number Seven, Latin Metrics and Enigmata
Language Latin

Notes

*The work takes the form of a letter containing the following:
1. exordium to 'Acircius' (@Ehwald 1919, p. 61);
2. essay on the number 7 in biblical typology (@Ehwald 1919, pp. 61-75, Chaps 1-6)
3. a treatise of Latin metrics in the form of a dialogue between a master and his pupil (mainly on the composition of hexameters) (@Ehwald 1919, pp. 75-96, Chaps. 6-10 and pp. 150-201, Chaps. 112-41);
4. a collection of one hundred Enigmata, ostensibly to illustrate the metrical principles enunciated, and inserted in the middle of the previous treatise (@Ehwald 1919, pp. 97-149);
5. an epilogue (@Ehwald 1919, pp. 201-4, Chap. 142).

Edition(s)

Editor Article or Book Title Journal or Pub.Loc. Date pp.
Go to Aldhelmi opera Ehwald, Rudolfus (Rudolf) Aldhelmus de metris et enigmatibus ac pedum regulis Berlin 1919 59-204

Translation(s)

Editor Article or Book Title Journal or Pub.Loc. Date pp.
Lapidge, Michael, and Herren, Michael Aldhelm: The Prose Works Ipswich, Cambridge, and Totowa, NJ 1979 34-45 [translation by Michael Herren of

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