MEDIEVAL GRAMMAR AND RHETORIC 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 ARISTOTLE'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