Commenta Bernensia and Adnotationes Super Lucanum

The Commenta Bernensia and Adnotationes Super Lucanum are two 9th-century compilations of scholia (explanatory notes) on the Latin poet Lucan's Pharsalia.

Lucan's poem was very popular in late antiquity and the middle ages, which created a demand for commentaries and scholia. In the absence of a canonical late antique commentator, the scholia to Lucan were combined and elaborated at will by medieval scribes, creating a very diverse commentary tradition. The Commenta and Adnotationes, which have layers dating between the 4th and 9th century CE, are among the earliest such commentaries, and contain much information found nowhere else in classical literature.