EDITIO PRINCEPS edited by Francesco Vitale Bodiano of this encyclopedia of classical scholarship , built on a strongly allegorical foundation. From late antiquity, and especially from the Carolingian era to the Renaissance, the Nozze was widely used as a textbook and an indispensable reference for the study of the liberal arts.
Martianus Capella's De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii (On the Nuptious Philology and Mercy) (5th century AD) is an encyclopedic and allegorical work in nine books. Its historical significance lies in its having been the principal manual for the transmission of the Liberal Arts in the Middle Ages , the link that ferried ancient pagan knowledge to Western Christian culture. Written in alternating prose and verse (prosimeter), it pioneered a literary genre that would later be taken up by seminal authors such as Boethius in his Consolatio Philosophiae and Dante Alighieri. The work became the fundamental textbook in monastic and cathedral schools throughout the Early Middle Ages, influencing thinkers such as John Scotus Eriugena and inspiring the iconography of many European cathedrals.

Hain 4370 - GW M21307. - Goff C 117. - BMC VII, 1048. - BSB M-205. - Jesus. für Typenkunde 2356. - Klebs 668.1. - Stillwell, Science 77. - Smith, Rara S. 66. - Honeyman 581. - Husung 242.