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Ars Ambianensis

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Anonymous grammatical treatise which shows affinities with other, Hiberno-Latin or insular grammars.

Latin language

Ars Ambrosiana

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Latin grammatical commentary of the seventh or eighth century, written in northern Italy (probably Bobbio), possibly but uncertainly by an Irish peregrinus. It is a commentary to Book 2 of the Ars maior of Donatus.

Latin language

Ars Asporii

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Asporius

Asporius

(fl. c.600?)

Asporius, known also as Asperius or Asper Minor (distinguishing him from Aemilius Asper), is the author to whom a grammar based on Donatus’ Ars minor is attributed. The possibility has been considered that he was an Irish or otherwise Insular grammarian and according to Vivien Law, he was probably active in Ireland or Burgundy.

Asporius

Asporius

(fl. c.600?)

Asporius, known also as Asperius or Asper Minor (distinguishing him from Aemilius Asper), is the author to whom a grammar based on Donatus’ Ars minor is attributed. The possibility has been considered that he was an Irish or otherwise Insular grammarian and according to Vivien Law, he was probably active in Ireland or Burgundy.

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A 6th-century or early 7th-century commentary on Donatus, Ars minor, ascribed to one Asperus/Asperius or Asporius, who may have been an Irishman. It represents a Christianised reworking of the material.

Latin language

Ars Bernensis

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Latin grammatical compilation thought to have been produced at an Irish or insular centre. It follows the model of Donatus' grammars and draws extensively on classical and Christian writings. No complete copy of the text survives. The extant sections are headed De partibus orationis, De nomine and De pronomine.

Latin language

Ars Brugensis

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Early medieval lemmatised commentary on books I and III of Donatus’ Ars maior. The work is similar to the Ars Laureshamensis and the grammatical treatises of Murethach and Sedulius Scottus.

Latin language

Ars grammatica (Donatus ortigraphus)

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Donatus ortigraphus

Donatus ortigraphus

(fl. c.815 and later)

Anonymous grammarian, probably of Irish origin, who worked on the continent and produced a grammatical treatise structured as a series of questions and answers, with ample citations from standard grammars such as Donatus and Priscian. The title Donatus ortigraphus is also applied as a shorthand for the work itself.

Latin treatise on grammar and written on the continent by an anonymous Irishman known in modern scholarship as Donatus ortigraphus (DO). The work is conceived as a dialogue between teacher and student, and the structure adopted for the treatment of its subjects is indebted to Donatus.

Latin language

Ars grammatica Pseudo-Clementis

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Clemens Scottus

Clemens Scottus

(fl.c. 814–826)

(Scottus/Scotus), Irish peregrinus, grammarian and teacher active at the court of Louis the Pious.

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Latin grammar (ars grammatica) once attributed to the Irish peregrinus and teacher Clemens Scottus but now regarded as an anonymous work.

Latin language

Ars Laureshamensis

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Anonymous commentary on Donatus, Ars maior, written at Lorsch, perhaps by an Irish or insular grammarian and based on a lost source of Irish origin. It covers all three parts (1, 3 and 2).

Latin language

Ars Malsachani

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Malsachanus

Malsachanus

(s. viii)

Hiberno-Latin grammarian

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.

Latin language

Ars metrica (Cruindmáel)

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Cruindmáel [Cruindmelus]Cruindmáel ... Cruindmelus

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Cruindmáel [Cruindmelus]Cruindmáel ... Cruindmelus

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Short Latin treatise on the grammar of metre, attributed to and presumably written by an Irish scholar named Cruindmelus, which likely represents the Irish name Cruindmáel. It has been dated to the first half of the 9th century.

Latin language

Auraicept na n-éces

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Old IrishMiddle Irish

Bardic syntactical tracts

prose

verse

A collection of Irish tracts on grammar and to a small extent, metre in bardic poetry, replete with specimens from selected poems.

Early Modern Irish

Cúig coitchind tiaghaid in es

verse

60 st.

beg. Cúig coitchind tiaghaid in es

Middle Irish poem (60qq) on the gender and declension of Latin nouns

Middle Irish

Donoet

prose

Middle Breton version of Donatus’s grammar Ars maior, written c.1500 and preserved in a collection of 17 manuscript fragments that later became part of a bookbinding. These fragments also contain glosses that offer notes and commentaries on the text.

Middle Breton

Epistolae (Virgilius Maro Grammaticus)

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Virgilius Maro Grammaticus

Virgilius Maro Grammaticus

(fl. c.7th century)

Scholar and author of two Latin grammatical treatises; often identified as an Irishman

Grammatical work written by Virgilius Maro Grammaticus.

Latin language

Epitomae (Virgilius Maro Grammaticus)

prose

Virgilius Maro Grammaticus

Virgilius Maro Grammaticus

(fl. c.7th century)

Scholar and author of two Latin grammatical treatises; often identified as an Irishman

Grammatical work written by Virgilius Maro Grammaticus.

Latin language

Expossitio latinitatis (Anonymus ad Cuimnanum)

form undefined

Anonymus ad CuimnanumAnonymus 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.

Latin language

Graiméar Uí Mhaolchonaire

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Ó hUiginn (Tadhg Óg mac Taidhg Dhaill)

Ó hUiginn (Tadhg Óg mac Taidhg Dhaill)

(fl. c.1600)

Irish grammarian and poet of the Ó hUiginn family, son of the poet Tadhg Dall Ó hUiginn.

Early Modern Irish

Gramadegau'r penceirddiaid

prose

Einion OffeiriadEinion Offeiriad

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See more (ascr.)Dafydd Ddu of Hiraddug

Dafydd Ddu of Hiraddug

(d. by 1371)

Welsh poet and editor of a Welsh bardic grammar.

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A group of vernacular Welsh bardic grammars whose production spans a long line of transmission, revision and adaptation. The earliest two recensions, from the 14th century and onwards, are associated with or attributed to Einion Offeiriad (fl. 13th century) and Dafydd Ddu (fl. 14th century). Later, more elaborate adaptations were produced by Gutun Owain and Simwnt Fychan. While influenced by the Latin grammatical tradition based on the likes of Donatus and Priscian, the grammars sought to apply concepts about the grammatical features of the vernacular to Welsh bardic poetry.

Middle WelshEarly Modern WelshMiddle WelshEarly Modern Welshgrammar (discipline)

Grammar, dictionary and chronicle in the Irish tongue (Matthew de Renzy)

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de Renzy (Matthew)

De Renzy (Matthew)

(1577–1634)

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In the epitaph for Matthew de Renzy (1577–1634) on a plaque in the church of Athlone, it is claimed that he composed, within three years, “a grammar, dictionary, and chronicle in the Irish tongue”. The nature and true authorship of these works are unknown. As for the grammar, Roderic O'Flaherty (1627/30–1716/18) suggested that it was De Renzi's tutor Tadhg Óg Ó hUiginn who wrote the grammar and that De Renzi intended to have it published under his own name until his tutor came up with a prosodic challenge he could not accomplish. This grammar has been equated with the tract known as Graiméar Uí Mhaolchonaire. Little can be said of the other works ascribed to De Renzy.

Early Modern Irish

Grammatica Latino-Hibernica nunc compendiata

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Ó Maolmhuaidh (Froinsias)

Ó Maolmhuaidh (Froinsias)

(c.1606–1677?)

Irish theologian; author of Lucerna fidelium/Lochrann na gcreidmheach (1676) and a grammar on the Irish language, Grammatica Latino-Hibernica (1677).

First printed book containing a grammar of the Irish language

Latin languagePrinted book

In Donati artem maiorem (lost Irish commentary)

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The hypothetical Irish commentary on Donatus’ Ars maior which according to Louis Holtz, underlies three extant Hiberno-Latin commentaries produced on the continent in the ninth century: those by Sedulius Scottus and Muiredach and the anonymous Ars Laureshamensis. The suggested scenario is that the work originated at home in Ireland and was brought to the continent by Irish peregrini.

Latin language

In Donati artem maiorem (Muiredach)

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Muiredach of Auxerre and Metz

Muiredach of Auxerre and Metz

(fl. 9th century)

also known from Latin sources as Murethach or Muridac; Irish grammarian and author of a commentary on Donatus’s Ars maior.

Commentary on Donatus, Ars maior, written c.840 by Muiredach (Muridac).

Latin language

Institutiones grammaticae (Priscian)

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