[The astronomy of Hyginus as object of late medieval didactic poetry].
During the middle ages, the astronomical manual ascribed to the Roman mythographer Hyginus, served as a central reference book. The manuscript London, BL, MS Add. 23892, contains a poem in which a thirteenth-century anonymous author attempts to transform Hyginus' sophisticated prose writing into the popular form of a didactic poem. This paper presents a critical edition of the text, an introduction, and a short commentary.
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Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Zentrum für Mittelalter- und Frühneuzeitforschung, Abteilung für Lateinische Philologie des Mittelalters und der Neuzeit, Humboldtallee 19, D-37073 Göttingen.