An approach to the correction of Caesar’s Bellum Gallicum in the fourteenth century

Abstract

The text of the Bellum Gallicum transmitted by the fourteenth-century codex Leidensis Vossianus Lat. F 90 (V), belongs to the α-class of the Caesar’s tradition; this manuscript shows a series of corrections, made according to the emendatio ope ingenii, that are shared by a group of recentiores of Italian origin. These readings show that some emendations of the humanistic codices are earlier than the fifteenth-century; we analyse the variants in order to establish their critical value and to specify the meaning of the B. G. in this period.