Donatus, Aelius (floruit 354)
Cod. 207, presumably created in Fleury (St. Benoît-sur-Loire), is one of the few and by far the richest representative of a style that evolved in Fleury towards the end of the 8th century; with its extremely rich and high-quality artistic decoration, consisting of three ornamental pages and almost 140 initials, it is an outstanding example of the creative evolution that the insular language of forms underwent in the important cultural centers of the continent. The manuscript, consisting of 197 leaves in Bern as well as 24 leaves in Paris (BNF, lat. 7520), is the oldest grammar manuscript from Fleury; it contains an early medieval corpus of Roman grammarians from antiquity and from the early medieval period: Bede, Donatus, Maximus Victorinus, Julianus Toletanus, Servius Honoratus, Asper minor, Sergius, Petrus Pisanus, Isidore, as well as numerous other anonymous treatises and excerpts.
Online Since: 10/13/2016
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- Asper (Author) | Beda, Venerabilis (Author) | Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Daniel, Pierre (Former possessor) | Donatus, Aelius (Author) | Gravisset, Jakob von (Former possessor) | Isidorus, Hispalensis (Author) | Iulianus, Toletanus (Author) | Lindt, Johann (Restorer) | Maximus, Victorinus (Author) | Optatianus Porfyrius, Publilius (Author) | Petrus, Pisanus (Author) | Servius (Author) Found in: Standard description
This manuscript is part of a substantial Carolingian composite manuscript, the surviving parts of which today are held in the Burgerbibliothek Bern (Cod. 330, 347, 357), the Bibliothèque Nationale de Paris (Ms. Lat. 7665), and in the Universitätsbibliothek Leiden (Voss. Lat. Q 30). Cod. 330 contains the last part of the volume with works on orthography by Cassiodorus, Alcuin-Bede, Caper, Terentius Scaurus, Agroetius, as well as several other texts.
Online Since: 06/25/2015
- Agroecius, Senonensis (Author) | Alcuinus, Flaccus (Author) | Anonymus (Author) | Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Beda, Venerabilis (Author) | Bongars, Jacques (Former possessor) | Caper, Flavius (Author) | Cassianus, Johannes (Author) | Daniel, Pierre (Former possessor) | Donatus, Aelius (Author) | Persius Flaccus, Aulus (Author) | Scaurus, Quintus Terentius (Author) | Vergilius Maro, Publius (Author) Found in: Standard description
This manuscript contains the German version of the Gesta Romanorum, a collection of anecdotes and tales originally in Latin that were compiled around the end of the 13th or the beginning of the 14th century. It was very popular throughout the entire Middle Ages and was published repeatedly. This codex was written 1461 (f. 150vb) in Bavaria.
Online Since: 03/22/2017
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- Bodmer, Martin (Former possessor) | Donatus, Aelius (Author) | Görres, Joseph von (Former possessor) | Hinterberger, Heinrich (Seller) | Kraus, Hans P. (Seller) | Langer, Eduard (Former possessor) Found in: Standard description
This paper manuscript, heavily damaged by woodworm, contains among other items, the following treatises on grammar: the Ars minor cum commento by Donatus (1r-61r), the Regulae grammaticales cum commento by Nicolaus Kempf (69r-91r) and the second part of the Doctrinale by Alexander of Villedieu, with an additional commentary (95r-220v).
Online Since: 03/17/2016
- Alexander, de Villa Dei (Author) | Donatus, Aelius (Author) | Kempf, Nicolaus (Author) Found in: Standard description
A manuscript compilation produced outside of St. Gall in about 800, written and illuminated unusually colorfully with numerous small initials, possibly at the Cloister of St. Denis near Paris. It consists of a large number of texts and excerpts, especially from the works of Isidore of Seville (Liber Sententiarum, Liber Differentiarum, Etymologiae), but also including texts by Augustine, Caesarius of Arles, Defensor (Liber scintillarum), Jerome, Gregory the Great, Eucherius (Formulae spiritalis intelligentiae) and many other authors. Near the end is an incomplete copy of the life story of St. Dionysius.
Online Since: 12/09/2008
- Augustinus, Aurelius (Author) | Caesarius, Arelatensis (Author) | Damasus I, Papa (Author) | Defensor, Locogiacensis (Author) | Donatus, Aelius (Author) | Eucherius, Lugdunensis (Author) | Gelasius I., Papst (Author) | Gennadius, Massiliensis (Author) | Gregorius, Nazianzenus (Author) | Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius (Author) | Isidorus, Hispalensis (Author) Found in: Standard description
School manuscript from the monastery of St. Gall, containing Cassiodorus'Institutiones saecularium litterarum (an educational book on the "Septem Artes Liberales").
Online Since: 12/31/2005
- Alcuinus, Flaccus (Author) | Cassiodorus, Flavius Magnus Aurelius (Author) | Donatus, Aelius (Author) | Isidorus, Hispalensis (Author) | Mallius, Theodorus Flavius (Author) | Sisebut, Westgotenreich, König (Author) Found in: Standard description
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- Alcuinus, Flaccus (Author) | Cassiodorus, Flavius Magnus Aurelius (Author) | Donatus, Aelius (Author) | Isidorus, Hispalensis (Author) | Mallius, Theodorus Flavius (Author) | Sisebut, Westgotenreich, König (Author) Found in: Additional description
Part I of the commentary of the late Roman grammarian Servius (ca. 400) on Virgil's Aeneid (Books 6 through 8 [v. 685]), produced at the Abbey of St. Gall in about 900. Part II of this widely disseminated commentary is found in Cod. Sang. 862.
Online Since: 04/15/2010
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Part 2 of the commentary by the late Roman grammarian Servius (ca. 400) on the works of Virgil, including books 9 through 12 as well as a biography of Publius Vergilius Maro, produced in about 900 in the Abbey of St. Gall. Part 1 of this widely disseminated commentary on Virgil is found in Cod. Sang. 861.
Online Since: 07/31/2009
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Manuscript compilation consisting mainly of grammatical texts, written in a variety of hands in about 800 in the monastery of St. Gall. Some of the texts in this codex are the oldest extant versions, and the text of the anonymous treatise De scansione heroyci versus et specie eorum is the only known surviving version in the world. Grammars include the Ars major and Ars minor by Donatus, a complilation of the two Donatus grammars by Peter of Pisa, the work De metris des Mallius Theodorus, the Ars grammatica by Diomedes, and both De arte metrica and De schematibus et tropis by the Venerable Bede.
Online Since: 12/09/2008
- Beda, Venerabilis (Author) | Diomedes, Grammaticus (Author) | Donatus, Aelius (Author) | Isidorus, Hispalensis (Author) | Mallius, Theodorus Flavius (Author) | Marius Victorinus, Gaius (Author) | Pompeius, Maurus (Author) | Servius (Author) Found in: Standard description
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- Beda, Venerabilis (Author) | Diomedes, Grammaticus (Author) | Donatus, Aelius (Author) | Isidorus, Hispalensis (Author) | Mallius, Theodorus Flavius (Author) | Marius Victorinus, Gaius (Author) | Pompeius, Maurus (Author) | Servius (Author) Found in: Additional description
Manuscript compilation from the St. Gallen scriptorum, dating from around 800 and containing numerous grammatical treatises.
Online Since: 12/31/2005
- Donatus, Aelius (Author) | Hippocrates (Author) | Notker, Medicus (Annotator) | Prosper, de Aquitania (Author) | Sedulius, Caelius (Author) Found in: Standard description
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The Vademecum (personal handbook) of Walahfrid Strabo (ca. 808-849), Abbot of Reichenau. It is one of the few known autographs of a prominent figure to survive from the early Middle Ages. It contains diverse texts and images by numerous hands, written between ca. 825 and 849, among them a labyrinth (on page 277) and different alphabets (pages 320/321), one in runes.
Online Since: 12/12/2006
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- Alcuinus, Flaccus (Author) | Anthemius, Trallianus (Author) | Anthimus, Medicus (Author) | Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Beda, Venerabilis (Author) | Cassiodorus, Flavius Magnus Aurelius (Author) | Donatus, Aelius (Author) | Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius (Author) | Hippocrates (Author) | Hrabanus, Maurus (Author) | Isidorus, Hispalensis (Author) | Orosius, Paulus (Author) | Priscianus, Caesariensis (Author) | Seneca, Lucius Annaeus (Author) | Tschudi, Aegidius (Former possessor) | Walahfridus, Strabo (Author) | Walahfridus, Strabo (Annotator) Found in: Standard description
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- Alcuinus, Flaccus (Author) | Anthemius, Trallianus (Author) | Anthimus, Medicus (Author) | Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Beda, Venerabilis (Author) | Cassiodorus, Flavius Magnus Aurelius (Author) | Donatus, Aelius (Author) | Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius (Author) | Hippocrates (Author) | Hrabanus, Maurus (Author) | Isidorus, Hispalensis (Author) | Orosius, Paulus (Author) | Priscianus, Caesariensis (Author) | Seneca, Lucius Annaeus (Author) | Tschudi, Aegidius (Former possessor) | Walahfridus, Strabo (Author) | Walahfridus, Strabo (Annotator) Found in: Additional description
- Alcuinus, Flaccus (Author) | Anthemius, Trallianus (Author) | Anthimus, Medicus (Author) | Arx, Ildefons von (Librarian) | Beda, Venerabilis (Author) | Cassiodorus, Flavius Magnus Aurelius (Author) | Donatus, Aelius (Author) | Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius (Author) | Hippocrates (Author) | Hrabanus, Maurus (Author) | Isidorus, Hispalensis (Author) | Orosius, Paulus (Author) | Priscianus, Caesariensis (Author) | Seneca, Lucius Annaeus (Author) | Tschudi, Aegidius (Former possessor) | Walahfridus, Strabo (Author) | Walahfridus, Strabo (Annotator) Found in: Additional description
Manuscript compilation with mostly grammatical content, produced during the second half of the 9th century in the Abbey of St. Gall. It contains, among other items, copies of the Ars maior by Donatus, the Ars grammatica by Honoratus, the work Ars de verbo by Eutyches, the Ars grammatica by Diomedes, and Book I of the Etymologies of Isidore of Seville.
Online Since: 12/23/2008
- Diomedes, Grammaticus (Author) | Donatus, Aelius (Author) | Eutyches, Grammaticus (Author) | Isidorus, Hispalensis (Author) Found in: Standard description
The Abba-Ababus-Glossar in palimpsest form, one of the oldest manuscripts in the Abbey Library which survives in book form. This glossary, in which each Latin word is explained using another, was apparently written over older texts from the 5th century in the Cloister of Bobbio. The texts underneath, which vary in legibility, include fragments of the Psalms and of the book of Jeremiah from the Old Testament as well as extracts from works by the grammarian Donatus and the Roman poet Terence. Includes a miniature of a speaker in declamatory pose.
Online Since: 12/09/2008
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