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St Florian manuscript of Rhetorica Alcuini / Alerani [sic?] † St Florian manuscript of Rhetorica Alcuini / Alerani [sic?]

  • Latin
  • s. viii–xii
  • Continental manuscripts
  • parchment

A work now lost but apparently still seen in the twelfth century at the monastery of St Florian near Linz (Austria). The source is an inventory of books ‘quos frater Heinricus huic contulit ecclesiae’, which is found in Göttweig, Benediktinerstift, MS 33, f. 148v. As recorded in editions from 1721 onwards, it includes the title Rhetorica Alerani, which has been taken to suggest that it contained a work, possibly a grammatical work, attributed to Ailerán, scholar of Clonard. The updated edition by Gottlieb (1915), however, reads Rethorica Alcvvini (a reading echoed by the 18th-century transcript in the Göttweig MS), which calls to mind Alcuin’s Disputatio de rhetorica. A digital facsimile of the manuscript in Göttweig can be consulted online.

Identifiers
Title
St Florian manuscript of Rhetorica Alcuini / Alerani [sic?]
Provenance and related aspects
Language
Latin
Date
s. viii–xii
Anywhere between the lifetime of the subject mentioned and the twelfth century.
Hands, scribes
Codicological information
State of existence
lost
Material
parchment
Continental manuscripts

Sources

Secondary sources (select)

Gottlieb, Theodor, Mittelalterliche Bibliothekskataloge Österreichs, I: Niederösterreich, Vienna, 1915.
Internet Archive: <link>
12
Manitius, Max, Geschichte der lateinischen Literatur des Mittelalters, 3 vols, vol. 1: Von Justinian bis zur Mitte des zehnten Jahrhunderts, Munich: Beck, 1911.
Digital.ub.uni-duesseldorf.de: <link> Digital.ub.uni-duesseldorf.de: View in Mirador
10 (and 10 n. 5)
Czerny, Albin, Die Bibliothek des Chorherrnstiftes St. Florian, Geschichte und Beschreibung, Linz, 1874.
Internet Archive: <link>
235

Offers a text of the list of manuscripts. “Das Verzeichniss ist abgedruckt bei Pez Anecdota tom. 2. p. XI. der Dissert. Isag.”

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Dennis Groenewegen
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October 2024
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