A Matter of Context: Early Medieval Use of Origen's Discussion of the Arts
Johanna von Gottfried
A MATTER OF CONTEXT: EARLY MEDIEVAL USE ORIGEN'S DISCUSSION T H E ARTS Johanna von Gottfried Available to the early medieval student in classrooms of monastery or cathedral schools and, it seems, Carolingian court as well, were several different traditions curricula for studies. Among them is a short introduction arts which illustrates striking way influence Cassiodorus' Institutiones Middle Ages. The text treatise appears have been very fluid. It found, exam­ ple, ninth century Bible French origin dated by Bernhard Bischoff year 821 . D , Paris B.N. lat. 11505. This version ad­ mirably suits its Biblical context. But copy it, exemplar, scribed on two folia and singleton manuscript Leiden, B.P.L. 28, Beauvais provenance, otherwise contains tenth collec­ tion Horace's poetry glossed from commentaries Aero Por­ phyry. Here quite incongruous, but was first place reader had encountered treatise.
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