Commentary on the Doctrinale of Alexander de Villa Dei, in Latin, MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM [?French, late 13th century] c.195 x 135mm. 60 leaves: 1 1 0, 2 1 1(xi a singleton), 3-5 1 0, 6 9(of 10, lacking v), gatherings 2-4 numbered in lower margin of final verso in red roman numerals, 2 columns of 50 lines written in a small gothic cursive hand in brown or black ink between 4 verticals and 51 horizontals in brown or black ink, justification: approximately 164 x 58-6-55mm, prickings survive in most margins, paragraph marks and three-line initials in red, four-line opening initial of red with penwork extensions and flourishing of red and black, lemmata underlined red (minor spotting and smudges, wormhole in first leaf and several wormholes in final ten leaves, lower corner of first five leaves nibbled, f.2 with original tear, sewn and outlined and avoided by script). 19th-century Germanic cloth-backed paper, speckled boards. PROVENANCE: Inscription on last verso transcribing opening of a letter by Albrecht II (1298-1358), Duke of Austria, Styria and Carinthia (from 1330): 'Wir Albr[echt] von gotes gnad[e]n Hezogk ze Ostr[eich], ze Stiern und ze Kernd u[m]gehn off[e]nlich in dissem prief all[e]n die enschen horen adir lesen'. CONTENT: Anonymous commentary on the Doctrinale of Alexander de Villa Dei, opening 'Homo cum sit' ff.1v-60v. The versified Doctrinale of Alexander de Villa Dei, published in 1199, was the fundamental work of elementary Latin grammar throughout the 13th Century, and indeed perhaps the most important pedagogical treatise of the Middle Ages. Composed in 2645 verses in three sections, it considers by way of rules and canonical examples the principles of etymologies, syntax, prosody and figures of speech. The text was meant to be used with a commentary, and was interpolated as early as the middle of the 13th Century. A range of glosses and commentaries exist, from marginal translations of words to literal and scholarly expositions in prose. The present commentary follows the example of one of the earliest and most famous of these, the Admirantes gloss, in providing a prologue which expounds the divisions of the Trivium and Quadrivium; thereafter the commentary is a close text-based explication with frequent lemmata, eschewing the elaborate philosophical and even theological interpretations of some commentaries: Lexicon Grammaticorum, who's who in the history of world linguistics , ed. Harro Stammerjohann, English ed. James Kerr, 1996. The incipit 'Homo cum sit' is not listed in Bursill Hall, 'A Census of Medieval Latin Grammatical Manuscripts', Grammatica Speculativa , IV, 1981.
Commentary on the Doctrinale of Alexander de Villa Dei, in Latin, MANUSCRIPT ON VELLUM [?French, late 13th century] c.195 x 135mm. 60 leaves: 1 1 0, 2 1 1(xi a singleton), 3-5 1 0, 6 9(of 10, lacking v), gatherings 2-4 numbered in lower margin of final verso in red roman numerals, 2 columns of 50 lines written in a small gothic cursive hand in brown or black ink between 4 verticals and 51 horizontals in brown or black ink, justification: approximately 164 x 58-6-55mm, prickings survive in most margins, paragraph marks and three-line initials in red, four-line opening initial of red with penwork extensions and flourishing of red and black, lemmata underlined red (minor spotting and smudges, wormhole in first leaf and several wormholes in final ten leaves, lower corner of first five leaves nibbled, f.2 with original tear, sewn and outlined and avoided by script). 19th-century Germanic cloth-backed paper, speckled boards. PROVENANCE: Inscription on last verso transcribing opening of a letter by Albrecht II (1298-1358), Duke of Austria, Styria and Carinthia (from 1330): 'Wir Albr[echt] von gotes gnad[e]n Hezogk ze Ostr[eich], ze Stiern und ze Kernd u[m]gehn off[e]nlich in dissem prief all[e]n die enschen horen adir lesen'. CONTENT: Anonymous commentary on the Doctrinale of Alexander de Villa Dei, opening 'Homo cum sit' ff.1v-60v. The versified Doctrinale of Alexander de Villa Dei, published in 1199, was the fundamental work of elementary Latin grammar throughout the 13th Century, and indeed perhaps the most important pedagogical treatise of the Middle Ages. Composed in 2645 verses in three sections, it considers by way of rules and canonical examples the principles of etymologies, syntax, prosody and figures of speech. The text was meant to be used with a commentary, and was interpolated as early as the middle of the 13th Century. A range of glosses and commentaries exist, from marginal translations of words to literal and scholarly expositions in prose. The present commentary follows the example of one of the earliest and most famous of these, the Admirantes gloss, in providing a prologue which expounds the divisions of the Trivium and Quadrivium; thereafter the commentary is a close text-based explication with frequent lemmata, eschewing the elaborate philosophical and even theological interpretations of some commentaries: Lexicon Grammaticorum, who's who in the history of world linguistics , ed. Harro Stammerjohann, English ed. James Kerr, 1996. The incipit 'Homo cum sit' is not listed in Bursill Hall, 'A Census of Medieval Latin Grammatical Manuscripts', Grammatica Speculativa , IV, 1981.
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