Prisciani grammatica [17de-eeuwse titel]
Priscianus Caesariensis - gest. na 530 (VIAF: 76294069) - auteur
Manuscript 533 is a twelfth or thirteenth-century copy of the Institutiones Grammaticae, an exposition on Latin grammar by the early sixth-century author Priscian. This was the standard textbook for the study of Latin grammar at the time. The complete work consists of eighteen books. Books I-XVI deal with sounds, word-formation and inflexions, while books XVII-XVIII discuss syntax. Due to the size of the last two books, almost a third of the entire work, they were often copied apart. Books I-XVI were known as the 'Larger Priscian' (Priscianus maior); the other two as the 'Smaller Priscian' (Priscianus minor) or 'On Construction' (De constructione). This copy contains the Priscianus maior. The text is written in a protogothic script in a single column per page. Decoration throughout is limited to red and blue lombards. There is no hierarchy; initials that introduce new books have not been executed differently from those that introduce chapters. The main exception is the decorated initial at the beginning of the prologue. This is an elaborately decorated letter C, portraying two connected animals, possibly griffins, the mouth of one of which produces flower ranks. Its empty areas have been coloured in with red and light blue ink. Throughout the manuscript marginal annotations are found, both contemporary and in a later, 15th-century, hand. That the manuscript was still in use by that time, is also shown by an inscription on the last leaf: 'Liber beate Marie de Dunis sub custodia Bernardi Valke anno 1481'. Valke was a cantor at the abbey at that time. The custodia is difficult to explain; possibly Valke brought the book with him to the abbey upon entering, donated the book (as monks could not possess anything), yet was allowed to keep it for use. In any case, by 1481 the book had come into the possession of Ten Duinen. Furthermore, this leaf contains some notes in Hebrew, possibly probationes pennae. The manuscript is bound in a seventeenth-century binding of the 'Campmans' type. [Summary by Dr. Mark Vermeer]
In bovenmarge van f. 1r door meermaals de titel 'Prisciani grammatica', in verschillende handen
Inc. (f. 1r): 'Cvm omnis eloquentie doctrinam et omne studiorum'; expl. (f. 134r): 'neque erant astrorum ignes nec lucidus extra [sic] sideria polvs. Sub XVI libro conclvditvr varie declinationes VIII parcivm orationis a prisciano lvcvlenter disserte'
Blijkens eigendomsinscriptie op f. 134v was dit boek in 1481 in beheer bij Bernard Valke, die als cantor verbonden was aan de Duinenabdij
Marginalia in zowel contemporaine hand als in latere, 15de-eeuwse hand
De Poorter, A., Catalogue des manuscrits de la bibliothèque publique de la ville de Bruges (Catalogue général des manuscrits des bibliothèques de Belgique 2), Gembloux: Duculot, 1934
Janzen, Jenneka. Written Culture at Ten Duinen. Cistercian Monks and their Books c. 1125-c. 1250. [Onuitgegeven doctoraatsthesis: Universiteit Leiden, 2019]
Gibson, Margaret, Priscian, "Institutiones grammaticae": a handlist of manuscripts, Scriptorium 26, 1972, pp. 105-124
Online catalogue description by Dr. Mark Vermeer. Online catalogusbeschrijving door Dr. Mark Vermeer.
Cisterciënzerabdij Ten Duinen (S.O.Cist.)
Mmmonk: Middeleeuwse Monastieke Manuscripten - Open - Netwerk - Kennis
B_OB_MS533 - Prisciani grammatica [17de-eeuwse titel]