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Expossitio latinitatis (Anonymus ad Cuimnanum)

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Anonymous commentary on Donatus’ Ars maior. It is thought to have been written by an insular perhaps Irish author and addressed to one Cuimnanus, whose name may be, like Cummianus, a Latinised version of the Irish personal name Cummíne.

Manuscript witnesses

Text

Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Additional C 144

Text

St. Paul im Lavanttal, Stiftsbibliothek, MS 2/1

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Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, MS Pal. lat. 1746

Sources

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[ed.] Bischoff, Bernhard, and Bengt Löfstedt, Anonymus ad Cuimnanum: Expossitio latinitatis, Corpus Christianorum, Series Latina, 133D, Turnhout: Brepols, 1992.

Secondary sources (select)

Law, Vivien, The Insular Latin grammarians, Studies in Celtic History, 3, Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1982.

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