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MEYERS, J., Le classicisme lexical dans la poésie de Sedulius Scottus. Droz, Genève, 1994. 327p. Sewn. Cardboard with dust wrps. Unopened. Series: Bibliothèque de Philosophie et Lettres de l'Université de Liège, Fascicule CCLIX. ‘In a series of chapters Meyers deals first with the small residue of nonclassical vocabulary and then with several aspects of the literary classicism that dominated Sedulius’s lexicon. If, as Walter Ong once remarked, medieval Latin poetry was mostly ‘a hothouse linguistic growth’, the evidence of the present study suggests that Sedulous cultivated his fair share of exotic flowers. First, Meyers assesses Sedulius’s sensitivity to language by categorizing the nonclassical words on the basis of their presence in postclassical literatures as either late antique, Christian, or medieval, before he investigates possible Sedulian neologisms. While these words represent less than 10 percent of Sedulius’s total vocabulary, they consistently reveal a taste for compound word formation, rare words, neologisms, and a limited number of latinized Greek words. (…) In the second part Meyers demonstrates convincingly Sedulius’s adherence to the morphology, Latinity, and poeticisms of classical poets, the only deviation being the frequency with which Sedulous used compound verbs, nouns, and adjectives. (CHRISTOPHER J. McDONOUGH in Speculum, 1996, pp.179-180). From the library of Prof. Carl Deroux. € 30.00 (Antiquarian)