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Ars Malsachani
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Latin grammatical treatise on the verb and the participle. In the Naples manuscript version of the text, there is also a section on nouns and pronoun but its relationship to the present text is unclear.
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Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale, MS IV.A.34
Here preceded by four chapters on nouns and pronouns.
ff. 241v–256v
Sources
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[ed.] Löfstedt, Bengt, Der hibernolateinische Grammatiker Malsachanus, Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, Studia Celtica Upsaliensia, 3, Uppsala: Uppsala Universitet, 1965.
[ed.] Roger, Maurice, Ars Malsachani: traité du verbe, Paris: Alphonse Picard et fils, 1905.
Internet Archive: <link>
Edition based on the Paris MS, superseded by the above.
Secondary sources (select)
Law, Vivien, “Malsachanus reconsidered: a fresh look at a Hiberno-Latin grammarian”, Cambridge Medieval Celtic Studies 1 (Summer, 1981): 83–93.
Zetzel, James E. G. (ed.), Critics, compilers, and commentators: an introduction to Roman philology, 200 BCE-800 CE, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.
abstract:
Table of contents
Preface
List of abbreviations
Part I: A short history of Roman scholarship
Chapter 1: The face of learning
Chapter 2: The origins of Roman grammar
Chapter 3: Word and world: Varro and his contemporaries
Chapter 4: Past and present: from Caecilius Epirota to Valerius Probus
Chapter 5: Finding the right word
Chapter 6: Dictionaries, glossaries, encyclopedias
Chapter 7: Commentary and exegesis
Chapter 8: Grammar and grammarians
Chapter 9: Author, audience, text
Chapter 10: Dictionaries and encyclopedias
Chapter 11: Commentaries
Chapter 12: Grammars and other forms of erudition
Chapter 13: Early medieval grammars
List of works cited
Indices
Manuscripts
General
Preface
List of abbreviations
Part I: A short history of Roman scholarship
Chapter 1: The face of learning
Chapter 2: The origins of Roman grammar
Chapter 3: Word and world: Varro and his contemporaries
Chapter 4: Past and present: from Caecilius Epirota to Valerius Probus
Chapter 5: Finding the right word
Chapter 6: Dictionaries, glossaries, encyclopedias
Chapter 7: Commentary and exegesis
Chapter 8: Grammar and grammarians
Chapter 9: Author, audience, text
Chapter 10: Dictionaries and encyclopedias
Chapter 11: Commentaries
Chapter 12: Grammars and other forms of erudition
Chapter 13: Early medieval grammars
List of works cited
Indices
Manuscripts
General
