It strikes me that there would be two sides to this question of a mediaeval writer's Vergil. On the one hand there is the matter of the manuscripts that might have been available to him, and presumably our survivals from that period may give us a fair picture of what those would be like. And on the other hand you have Vergilian tags and quotes in their own writings. So my question is this: what is the process by which words and phrases go from one text to the other? Are the different writers working from memory, or are they writing with a codex open before them? For if someone is working from memory, then the evidence from their citations is likely to be contaminated by misrememberings - at least, just enough to make the reconstruction of the text they knew rather profitless. That is just my guess, however. Do we know we have statements from these writers that shed light on their work methods? PT
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