Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Editorial note regarding citations from manuscripts and publications
- A note on chronological terminology
- Introduction
- 1 Italian Renaissance education: an historiographical perspective
- 2 The elementary school curriculum in medieval and Renaissance Italy: traditional methods and developing texts
- 3 The secondary grammar curriculum
- 4 Latin authors in medieval and Renaissance Italian schools: the story of a canon
- 5 Reading Latin authors in medieval and Renaissance Italian schools
- 6 Rhetoric and style in the school grammar syllabus
- Conclusion
- Appendix I BL Harley 2653: the earliest known manuscript of Ianua
- APPENDIX II A handlist of manuscripts of Ianua
- Appendix III Manuscripts of Tebaldo's Regule
- Appendix IV Handlist of manuscripts of school authors produced in Italy and now found in Florentine libraries
- Appendix V Theoretical grammar manuscripts in Florentine libraries examined and included or eliminated as italian school grammars
- Appendix VI Authorities Cited Explicitly in Manuscripts of Major School Authors in Florentine Libraries
- Bibliography
- Index of manuscripts
- General index
Appendix I - BL Harley 2653: the earliest known manuscript of Ianua
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 July 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Editorial note regarding citations from manuscripts and publications
- A note on chronological terminology
- Introduction
- 1 Italian Renaissance education: an historiographical perspective
- 2 The elementary school curriculum in medieval and Renaissance Italy: traditional methods and developing texts
- 3 The secondary grammar curriculum
- 4 Latin authors in medieval and Renaissance Italian schools: the story of a canon
- 5 Reading Latin authors in medieval and Renaissance Italian schools
- 6 Rhetoric and style in the school grammar syllabus
- Conclusion
- Appendix I BL Harley 2653: the earliest known manuscript of Ianua
- APPENDIX II A handlist of manuscripts of Ianua
- Appendix III Manuscripts of Tebaldo's Regule
- Appendix IV Handlist of manuscripts of school authors produced in Italy and now found in Florentine libraries
- Appendix V Theoretical grammar manuscripts in Florentine libraries examined and included or eliminated as italian school grammars
- Appendix VI Authorities Cited Explicitly in Manuscripts of Major School Authors in Florentine Libraries
- Bibliography
- Index of manuscripts
- General index
Summary
BL Harley 2653 is a parchment codex, inc. Incipit Donatus gramatice artis. Poeta que pars ortionis est? Nomen. Quare […] It has been examined by Albinia de la Mare, who writes, ‘The script is certainly Germanic – S. German, Austrian or, I suppose, Swiss, s. XII. Certainly not Italian.’ However the text contained in this Germanic manuscript seems almost certainly to be Italian in origin, as suggested by the post antique geographical place names mentioned, all of which are Italian (Milan, Alatri (12r); Pavia, Milan, Fiesole, Pisa, Italy (38v); Pavia, Italy, Bologna (39r)). This means that the text of Ianua was circulating in Italy for some time before the second half of the twelfth century, by which time it had already reached Germanic localities. An Italian provenance from no later than the earlier XIIc. is also confirmed by the use made of Ianua by the Italian grammarian Paolo da Camaldoli in his own elementary grammar, entitled Donatus, itself datable to the later XIIc.
Harley 2653 provides a full text of Ianua, even beginning with the usual ‘Incipit Donatus gramatice artis’, and so it must be wondered why this text has not previously been identified. The answer is that, unlike most other versions of Ianua, it does not begin with the verse prologue, inc. Ianua sum rudibus primam cupientibus artem.
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- Humanism and Education in Medieval and Renaissance ItalyTradition and Innovation in Latin Schools from the Twelfth to the Fifteenth Century, pp. 369 - 372Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2001