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A Latin quatrain found in Paris BNF lat. 12949, where it appears at the end of an extensively glossed copy of Porphyry’s Isagoge in Boethius’ Latin translation. This quatrain attributes the set of glosses to one ΙCΡΑ, written in Greek script, who has been identified with Israel the Grammarian and may be the author of this small verse.

Manuscript witnesses

MS
Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, MS lat. 12949 
context: Translatio Isagoges Porphyrii (Boethius)   rubric: Incipit liber artis dialecticae introductiones quae et Ysagogae Porphyrii   incl. Scripturae finem sibi quaerunt hic Ysagogae, Glosses to Porphyry (ΙCΡΑ)   Boethius' Latin translation of Porphyry's Isagoge, which has been edited by Lorenzo Minio-Paluello, Categoriarum supplementa: Porphyrii Isagoge, translatio Boethii et anonymi fragmentum, vulgo vocatum ‘Liber sex principiorum’ (Bruges 1966). The text is amply glossed in the margins and interlinear spaces. The last page contains a Latin quatrain beg. Scripturae finem sibi quaerunt hic Ysagogae, which serves as a kind of signature identifying the author of the glosses: the second line reads ‘ΙCΡΑ hunc scripsi glossans utcumque libellum’. This ΙCΡΑ, written in Greek script, has been read as the name of Israel the Grammarian.
in section: f. 46r–f. 52v

Sources

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[ed.] Silagi, Gabriel, and Bernhard Bischoff, Poetae Latini aevi Carolini, vol. 5: Die Lateinischen Dichter des deutschen Mittelalters: die Ottonenzeit, fasc. 3, MGH Antiquitates, Berlin: Weidmann, 1979.
Dmgh.de: <link>
648
[ed.] Traube, Ludwig, Poetae Latini aevi Carolini, vol. 3, MGH Antiquitates, Berlin: Weidmann, 1896.
Dmgh.de: <link>
685 Superseded.

Secondary sources (select)

Lapidge, Michael, and Richard Sharpe, A bibliography of Celtic-Latin literature, 400-1200, Royal Irish Academy Dictionary of Medieval Latin from Celtic Sources, Ancillary Publications, 1, Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, 1985.
195, 200 [id. 724; 744.]
Jeudy, Colette, “Israël le grammairien et la tradition manuscrite du commentaire de Remi d'Auxerre à l’Ars minor de Donat”, Studi medievali 18 (1977): 185–248.
204
Jeauneau, Édouard, “Pour le dossier d’Israel Scot”, Archives d'histoire doctrinale et litteraire du Moyen Âge 52 (1985): 21–36.