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GRAMMATICAL and other treatises, chiefly in verse, and with marginal and interlinear notes, viz.: 1. "Descripcio mundi secundum [C. Julium] [H]yginum;" in hexameter verse, f. 7.

2. "Reg[ujle de vltimis sillabis;" in hexameter verse, beginning, "Qve finitur in a breuis est pais queque latina," f. 15 b.

3. Verses on various subjects, as the offices of the Muses, degrees of affinity, etc., with the lines of Theogerus, Bishop of Metz, on the attributes of Christ, beginning, "Eptaphonus, strophicus," etc. Lat. f. 16 b.

4. Tractatus "Magistri Marbonis [aliter Marbodi, etc., Redonensis Episcopi], de ornamentis verborum;" in hexameter verse, f. 17 b.

5. "Labores Herculis;" fourteen hexameter lines, each ending in -onem. Beginning, "Herculis extinguit Nemeum dextra leonem." f. 20.

6. Seven hexameter lines, enumerating Latin words which have the first vowel short, f. 20.

7. "Formationes preteritorum et supinorum;" from the Doctrinale of Alexander de Villa Dei. Beginning, "As in preterito vi suscipits removendo." f. 20 b.

8. "Regule versificatorie;" in hexameter verse. Beginning, "Regula splendescit qua sillaba prima patescit." f. 23 b.

9. "Pedes tocius metrice artis," f. 28 b.

10. Hexameter and elegiac verses on moral subjects. Lat. f. 29. ll. Brief analysis of the Cosmographia of Bernard Sylvester (?). Imperfect. Lat. f. 29b.

12. Abridgment of Bede's treatise, "De schematis et tropis." Imperfect at the beginning. Lat. f.30.

13. Abridgment of Bede's treatise, "De arte metricâ." Lat. f. 31b.

14. Liber Serlonis Grammatici; metrical rules for the gender of Latin nouns. Beginning, "Declinent pueri tuti mea castra secuti." f. 36.

15. "Uerba quedam diuersarum coniugacionum sed unius significacionis;" in hexameter verse, f. 39.

16. Treatise on Latin patronymics. Beginning, "Quæ est agnitio patronomicorum." f. 40 b.

17. Treatise on the Latin verb. Beginning, "Verbum est pars orationis." f. 41.

18. Treatise on the Hebrew, Greek, and Latin alphabets, with the Nicene Creed, the Gloria in excelsis, and the numerals in Latin and Greek. Beginning, "Primo omnium literas ante diluvium invenisse Enoc dicitur." f. 51. l9. Thirteen sets of verses on various moral subjects, the first and last in hexameters, the rest in elegiacs. Beginniing, "Formula vivendi præsto est; perpauca loquaris." ff. 53 b-55. Several leaves are missing after f. 53.

20. "Differentie [sive tractatus de verbis æquivocis] Magistri Serlonis [Grammatici];" in hexameter verse. Beginning, "Unam semper amo, cuius non solver ab hamo." f. 55.

21. "Regula de extraneis longis;" a prosodical treatise in hexameter verse. Beginning, "Que non noscuntur si non exempla sciuntur." f. 58 b.

22. Versiculi "De tribus moituis quos suscitavit Dominus." Beginning, "Intro, foris, sub humo, recubat, uehitur, ueterascit." f. 61 b.

23. Versiculi "De oblatione trium magorum." Beginning, "Tres hii, trinus ego, tria dant, tria trina figurant." f. 61 b.

24. Philosophical treatise; beginning, "Dicendum primo est uade dicatur philosophia," f. 62.

25. Miscellaneous grammatical notes. Lat. f. 63 b.

26. "Libellus magistri Mathei Vindocinensis de doctrina uersificandi." Imperfect. f. 64.

27. Manus theologica. Beginning, "Fermentum aliquando ponitur." f. 70 b.

28. "Particula secunda de doctrina uersificandi," Magistri Matthæi Vindocinensis, f. 72.

29. Homilies on the texts "Diverte a malo et fac bonum;" "In die tribulationis mee," etc.; and "Plantavit deus paradisum voluptatis," etc., ff. 77 b-78 b.

30. Portion of the third part of the Doctrinale of Alexander de Villa Dei. Beginning, "A brevis in mediis datur aut B. sillaba testis." f. 80.

31. "Tractatus [prosodaicus] Henrici grammatici;" in hexameter verse. Beginning, "In mediis ditonas has lector percipe partes." f. 84.

32. Fragment of a treatise on prosody; beginning, "Videamus de hiis qui spiritualium instar habent," f. 87 b. At the beginning of the volume are an index verborum and an incomplete table of contents. Vellum; XIIIth cent. Octavo.

Scope & Content:

includes:

ff. 7-15 Caius Julius Hyginus: Descriptio Mundi: 13th cent.
ff. 7-15 Cosmogony and Cosmography: Descriptio mundi, secundum C. J. Hyginum: 13th cent.
f. 17 Theogerus, Bishop of Metz: Verses on the attributes of Christ: 13th cent.: Lat.
ff. 17 b-19 b Marbode, Bishop of Rennes: De ornamentis verborum, metrice: 13th cent.
f. 20 Hercules: Labores Herculis, metrice: 13th cent.
f. 29 b Bernard Sylvester: Analysis of his Cosmographia: 13th cent.: Lat.: Imperf.
f. 29 b Cosmogony and Cosmography: Analysis of the cosmography of B. Sylvester: 13th cent.: Lat.: Imperf.
f. 30 Bede, Venerable: De schematis et tropis: 13th cent.: Imperf.
ff. 31 b-35 b Bede, Venerable: De arte metricâ: 13th cent.
f. 36 Serlo, Grammaticus: Rules for Latin genders: 13th cent.: Lat.
ff. 55-58 Serlo, Grammaticus: Differentiae: 13th cent.
f. 62 Philosophy: Tractatus de philosophia: 13th cent.
ff. 64-70, 72-77 Matthieu de Vendôme, Abbé de St. Denis, Régent de France: De doctrina versificandi: 13th cent.
ff. 77 b-78 b Sermons: Homiliæ: 13th cent.
f. 80 Alexander de Villa Dei, Dolensis, ord. Minor: Doctrinale puerorum: 13th, 15th centt.
f. 84 Henricus Grammaticus: Tractatus prosodaicus, metrice: 13th cent.

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Latin

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Start Date:

1200

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1299

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13th century

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Names:

Alexander of Villedieu, French author, 1175-c 1240,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000453019936
Bede the Venerable, Saint, c 673-735,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000120962352,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/61539765
Henricus Grammaticus
Hercules
Hyginus, Caius Julius
Marbod of Rennes, Bishop of Rennes, c 1035-1123,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000122379363,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/241082057
Serlo, Grammaticus
Sylvester, Bernard
Theogerus, Bishop of Metz
Vendôme, Matthieu, Abbé de St. Denis, Régent de France