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Ars grammatica Pseudo-Clementis
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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.
Manuscript witnesses
MS
Bamberg, Staatsbibliothek, MS Class. 30
incipit: In dei nomine pauca incipiunt de philosophia et de partibus eius
ff. 1r–54r.2
Text
Bamberg, Staatsbibliothek, MS Class. 30
incipit: In dei nomine pauca incipiunt de philosophia et de partibus eius ... Finit de partibus orationis Complete text followed by (1) an inscription; (2) a treatise on metrical feet, f. 54r; (3) the tract Pauca de barbarismo collecta de multis, f. 56v; and (4) a verse dedication to Lothair, f. 70v, beg. Pauca tibi, Caesar, de multis, magne Hlothari).
ff. 1–54r
Text
Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, MS Clm 14401/3
rubric: Dialogus inter discipulum et magistrum de philosophia et eius speciebus incipit: Omnibus divina stipulante gratia
ff. 154r–168v
Sources
Primary sources Text editions and/or modern translations – in whole or in part – along with publications containing additions and corrections, if known. Diplomatic editions, facsimiles and digital image reproductions of the manuscripts are not always listed here but may be found in entries for the relevant manuscripts. For historical purposes, early editions, transcriptions and translations are not excluded, even if their reliability does not meet modern standards.
[ed.] Puckett, Anna, “Clementis qui dicitur ars grammatica: a critical edition”, Unpubl. Ph.D. diss., UCLA, 1978.
A new edition by Puckett for Brepols may be forthcoming.
Secondary sources (select)
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
343 “The text [...] is not by [Clemens]. It is an anonymous catechistic ars on the parts of speech, with many close parallels to other early medieval artes, including Anonymus ad Cuimnanum, Malsachanus, Cruindmel, and the Ars Bernensis.”
