Priscian’s institutio de nomine et pronomine et verbo in the ninth century
Marina Passalacqua
Summary The Institutio de nomine et pronomine verbo by Priscian enjoyed, unlike the Institutiones grammaticae of which it is a summary, vast popularity in early Middle Ages, because provided basic elements Latin morphology and swiftly taught students how to decline conjugate. In eighth ninth centuries we find 24 manuscripts text contaminated such an extent that prevents charting any stemma codicum , although possible identify influence particular codices on one another. was well known France, but there are copies also Bavaria, Abruzzi Spain. Only four these contain as well: two works were destined for very different kinds public. Their coexistence Paris, BN, lat. 7498 comes response need have complete corpus Saint-Amand; 7503 position occupied treatise suggests felt summary first section deals with noun, preparation second concerns verbs; Reims 1094 didactic considerations appear predominate; Wolfenbüttel 64, witness presence grammatical texts Lyon, fragment gives impression being scholastic exercise. It has be noted, however, three out four, inserted into seven books . authors whose most frequently occur together Isidore, Bede, Donatus, Servius’s De finalibus Sergius’s littera Phocas, Sedulius, St. Jerome, Eutyches, Agroecius, Consentius, Liber metrorum Maximus Victorinus’s ratione Commentum Artem Donati richest terms great manuals Bologna 797, Orléans 295 Gall 878 Walahfrid Strabo.
Historiographia Linguistica