The Earliest Anonymous Exposition of Priscian: Two Manuscripts and Their Glosses
Franck Cinato
Two manuscripts containing Priscian’s Ars grammatica, namely Paris, lat. 7505 and Reims, 1094, transmit more or less completely an anonymous marginal commentary — calling itself ‘Expositio’ that it is possible to link the palace schools.
This contribution history of reception Priscian attempts demonstrate early appearance this Expositio, which, although has been diffused through network schools, probably goes back in its extant form end eighth century. However, some indications, for example Tours origin Paris manuscript significant presence explanations depending on supplemented by a good standard Greek, suggest composition participation several generations teachers.
The case Expositio confirms prior first commentators, Sedulius Scottus John Scot (around middle ninth century), grammarians who gravitated circles Carolingian kings explained Prisciani directly margins books.
Utrecht studies in medieval literacy