Excerptiones de Prisciano : the source for Ælfric's Latin-Old English grammar
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Excerptiones de Prisciano : the source for Ælfric's Latin-Old English grammar
(Anglo-Saxon texts, 4)
D.S. Brewer, 2002
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 400-405) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
First edition of 10th-century compendium of grammatical lore, second only in importance to AElfric's own Grammar.
When the famous Anglo-Saxon scholar AElfric wrote the first grammar in a European vernacular, he used as his direct source the Excerptiones de Prisciano excerpts from major curriculum authors of the medieval schools, including Donatus, Isidore and Priscian himself . The tenth-century text, probably of English origin, most probably compiled by AElfric, is an ambitious compendium of grammatical lore, and it is, with the exception of AElfric's own Grammar, arguably the most sophisticated Latin-learning text of the Anglo-Saxon age. Edited here for the first time,the Excerptiones appear with all scholia, an English translation, and a full contextual introduction.
DAVID W. PORTER is Professor of English, Southern University, Baton Rouge.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Incipiunt "Excerptiones de Prisciano": de voce
- de littera - de numero litterarum, de differentia litterarum, de affinitate litterarum, de consonantibus, de diptongis, de sillaba
- de partibus. Part 2 De nomine: de accidentibus
- de apellatiuis nominibus
- de patronomico
- de possessiuo
- de comparatiuo
- de diminutiuo
- de denominatiuo
- incipiunt quinque declinationes cum generibus
- de numero
- de figura
- de que
- de casu. Part 3 Incipit pronomen: de personis
- de generibus
- de figura
- de -met
- de -pte
- de -ce
- de eccum et de cum
- de interest et refert
- de cuia
- de numero
- de casu. Part 4 Incipit verbum: de tempore
- de speciebus
- de figura
- de personis incipit
- de numero verborum
- de coniugatione actiui verbi
- de verbis passiuis
- incipiunt octo forme praeteriti perfecti omnium verborum
- de verbis defectiuis. Part 5 Incipit adverbium: de accidentibus aduerbii
- de figuris
- de significatione
- de localibus aduerbiis. Part 6 Participium incipit: de accidentibus
- de casu
- de temporibus
- de singulis participiis
- de numero
- de figuris. Part 7 Incipit coniunctio. Part 8 Incipit praepositio: de accentu
- de declaratione praepositionum casus accusatiui
- de casu ablatiuo
- de sex loquelaribus. Part 9 De interiectione. Part 10 De nominibus numerorum secunvum priscianum.
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