MEDIEVAL GRAMMAR AND LANGUAGE ARTS AND LITERARY THEORY, AD 3OO-I475

EDITED BY RITA COPELAND AND INEKE SLUITER

OXPORD UNIVERSITY PRESS CONTENTS

List of Abbreviations xi

GENERAL INTRODUCTION I

PART i ARTS OF LANGUAGE, CA. 300-CA. 950

INTRODUCTION 62

TERENTIANUS MAURUS, DE LITTERIS AND DE SYLLABIS, CA. 300 72

AELIUS DONATUS, ARS MINOR, ARS MAIOR, LIFE OF VIRGIL, CA. 350 82

MARIUS VICTORINUS, COMMENTARY ON THE DE INVENTIONE, BEFORE 355 104

SERVIUS, COMMENTARY ON THE AENEID, CA. 400-420 . 125

TIBERIUS CLAUDIUS DONATUS, LNTERPRETATIONES VERGILIANAE, CA. 400 141

MARTIANUS CAPELLA, DE NUPTIIS PHILOLOGIAE ET MERCURII, CA. 420-490 148

PRISCIAN, INSTITUTIONES GRAMMATICAE AND INSTITUTIO DE NOMINE PRONOMINE

VERBO, CA. 520 167

BOETHIUS, DE TOPICIS DIEFERENTIIS, BOOK 4, CA. 523 190

CASSIODORUS, EXPOSITIO PSALMORUM, CA. 540, AND INSTITUTIONES, CA. 562 210

ISIDORE OF SEVILLE, ETYMOWGIAE, CA. 625 232

VIRGILIUS MARO GRAMMATICUS, EPISTOLAE AND EPITOMAE, CA. 650 248

BEDE, DE ARTE METRICA AND DE SCHEMATIBUS ET TROPIS, CA. 710 256 Vlll CONTENTS

ALCUIN, ARS GRAMMATICA AND DISPUTATIO DE RHETORICA ET DE VIRTUTIBUS, CA. 790-800 272

GLOSSES ON PRISCIAN BY REMIGIUS AND HIS FOLLOWERS (NINTH AND TENTH CENTURIES) 299

PART 2 DOSSIERS ON THE ABLATIVE ABSOLUTE AND ETYMOLOGY

INTRODUCTION 312

THE ABLATIVE ABSOLUTE DOSSIER 314

ETYMOLOGY DOSSIER 339

PART 3 SCIENCES AND CURRICULA OF LANGUAGE IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY

INTRODUCTION • 368

COMMENTARIES ON PRISCIAN, CA. 1080 TO CA. 1150: GLOSULE, ' NOTE DUNELMENSES, WILLIAM OF CONCHES 376

RUPERT OF DEUTZ, DE SANCTA TRINITATE ET OPERIBUS EIUS, 1112-1116: GRAMMAR AND RHETORIC 390

THIERRY OF CHARTRES, COMMENTARIES ON THE DE INVENTIONE AND RHETORICA AD HERENNIUM, CA. II3O-II4O 405

THIERRY OF CHARTRES, PROLOGUE TO THE HEPTATEUCHON, PROLOGUES TO

DONATUS, CA. 1140 439

PETRUS HELIAS, SUMMA SUPER PRISCIANUM, CA. 1140-1150 444

DOMINICUS GUNDISSALINUS, DE DIVISIONE PHILOSOPHIAE, CA. II50-I160 461

JOHN OF SALISBURY, METALOGICON, 1159 484

GRAMMATICAL COMMENTARIES FROM THE "SCHOOL" OF RALPH OF BEAUVAIS, CA. 1165-1175 511 CONTENTS IX

ALAN OF LILLE, ANTICLAUDIANUS, CA. 1182 518

ALEXANDER NECKAM, A LIST OF TEXTBOOKS (FROM SACERDOS AD ALTARE), CA. 1210 531

PART 4 PEDAGOGIES OF GRAMMAR AND RHETORIC, CA.II5O-I28O

INTRODUCTION 544

PROLOGUES TO TWELFTH-CENTURY SCHOOL COMMENTARIES ON

HORACE'S ARS POETICA, CA. 1150 551

MATTHEW OF VENDOME, ARS VERSIFICATORIA, CA. 1175 559

ALEXANDER OF VILLA DEI, DOCTRLNALE, 1199 573

EBERHARD OF BETHUNE, GRAECISMUS, 1112 584

GEOFFREY OF VINSAUF, POETRIA NOVA, CA. 1208-1213 594

GERVASE OF MELKLEY, ARS VERSIFICARIA, CA. 1215-1216 607

THOMAS OF CHOBHAM, SUMMA DE ARTE PRAEDICANDI, CA. 1220 614

JOHN OF GARLAND, PARISIANA POETRIA, CA. 1231-1235 639

HUGH OF TRIMBERG, REGISTRUM MULTORUM AUCTORUM, 1280 657

TRIA SUNT (AFTER 1256, BEFORE 1400) 67O

PART 5 PROFESSIONAL, CIVIC, AND SCHOLASTIC APPROACHES TO THE LANGUAGE ARTS, CA. 1225-CA. 1272

INTRODUCTION 684

GUIDO FABA, PREFACE TO THE ROTA NOVA, CA. 1225 699

HENRI D'ANDELI, BATAILLE DES VIIARS, CA. 1230 706 X CONTENTS

COMMENTARY ON THE BARBARISMUS (ATTRIBUTED TO ROBERT KILWARDBY), CA. 1250 724

HERMANNUS ALEMANNUS, AL-FARABI'S DIDASCALIA ON 'S RHETORIC, 1256 735

BRUNETTO LATINI, RETTORICA, CA. 1260 753

VINCENT OF BEAUVAIS, SPECULUM DOCTRINALE, CA. 1260 780

THOMAS AQUINAS, PREFACE TO HIS EXPOSITIO OF ARISTOTLE'S POSTERIOR ANALYTICS, 1270 787

GILES OF ROME, COMMENTARY ON ARISTOTLE'S RHETORIC, CA. 1272 792

PART 6 RECEPTIONS OF THE TRADITIONS: THE LANGUAGE ARTS AND POETICS IN THE LATER MIDDLE AGES, CA. 1369-CA. 1475

INTRODUCTION 814

NICOLAUS DYBINUS, DECLARACIO ORACIONIS DE BEATA DOROTHEA, CA. 1369 821

JOHN GOWER, CONFESSIO AMANTIS, 1386-1390 834

GENERAL PROLOGUE OF THE WYCLIFFITE BIBLE, CA. 1395—1399 845

JOHN LYDGATE, FALL OF PRINCES, 1431-1439 854

A MIDDLE ENGLISH TREATISE ON THE SEVEN LIBERAL ARTS, CA. 1475 864

Select Bibliographies Primary Sources 874 Secondary Sources 888 Index of Latin Terms 922 Index of Ancient and Medieval Names 938 General Index 955