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Pauca de barbarismo collecta de multis
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An early medieval Latin compilation of material on barbarisms, solecisms, metaplasms, figures of speech and other topics discussed in Book 3 of Donatus’ Ars maior. Headings: De barbarismo, De soloecismo, De ceteris uitiis, De metaplasmo, De scematibus, De tropis. The verse dedication which follows the text in the Bamberg manuscript is usually interpreted as an attribution to Clemens Scottus.
Manuscript witnesses
MS
Bamberg, Staatsbibliothek, MS Class. 30
incipit: [Q]uid est barbarismus? [discourse marker] Pompeius ostendit ita dicens
ff. 56v.13-70v.3
Text
Bamberg, Staatsbibliothek, MS Class. 30
incipit: [Q]uid est barbarismus? Pompeius ostendit ita dicens Here followed by the poem beg. Pauca tibi Caesar de multis magne Hlothari.
ff. 56v–70v
Text
Leiden, University Library, MS BPL 135/3 (ff. 87-111)
rubric: Incipit Expositio in barbarismo
ff. 87r–93v
Text
Valenciennes, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 393
rubric: Inicipiunt pauca de barbarismis collecta de multis incipit: Quid est barbarismus? Pompeus ostendit ita dicens
ff. 112v–123r
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.] Mari, Tommaso, Pauca de barbarismo collecta de multis: studio ed edizione critica, Testi e studi di cultura classica, 66, Pisa: Edizioni ETS, 2017.
abstract:
L’opera conosciuta come Pauca de barbarismo collecta de multis è una compilazione grammaticale latina di età carolingia che attinge alla dottrina di numerosi grammatici tardoantichi su uitia et uirtutes orationis. Nel presente volume, che ne è l’editio princeps, l’autore descrive la tradizione manoscritta dell’opera, analizza le sue fonti grammaticali e letterarie e ne esamina la lingua, per poi delinearne una contestualizzazione storico-culturale. L’edizione è corredata da un ricco apparato critico che include puntuali raffronti con il testo e la tradizione manoscritta delle fonti della compilazione. Concludono il volume gli indici dei passi citati. Questo libro è pensato in primo luogo per gli studiosi della tradizione grammaticale latina tardoantica ed altomedievale, ma si rivolge anche a chi studia la fortuna dei classici latini nel Medioevo.
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 Describes the text as a “collection of material on barbarism, solecism and figures of speech [...] parallel to Donatus, Ars maior, Book 3”
