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Ars Ambrosiana

  • Latin
  • prose
Latin grammatical commentary of the seventh or eighth century, written in northern Italy (probably Bobbio), possibly but uncertainly by an Irish peregrinus. It is a commentary to Book 2 of the Ars maior of Donatus.
Language
  • Latin
Form
prose (primary)
Textual relationships
(Possible) sources: Ars maior (Donatus)Ars maior (Donatus)View incoming data
Related: Liber de verbo (BNF MS 7491)Liber de verbo (BNF MS 7491)

Anonymous grammatical treatise on the verb, probably composed in the 8th century and preserved in a single MS.

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[ed.] Löfstedt, Bengt, Ars Ambrosiana: commentum anonymum in Donati partes maiores, Corpus Christianorum, Series Latina, 133C, Turnhout: Brepols, 1982.

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Zetzel, James E. G. (ed.), Critics, compilers, and commentators: an introduction to Roman philology, 200 BCE-800 CE, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.  
abstract:
Table of contents
Preface
List of abbreviations
Part I: A short history of Roman scholarship
Chapter 1: The face of learning
Chapter 2: The origins of Roman grammar
Chapter 3: Word and world: Varro and his contemporaries
Chapter 4: Past and present: from Caecilius Epirota to Valerius Probus
Chapter 5: Finding the right word
Chapter 6: Dictionaries, glossaries, encyclopedias
Chapter 7: Commentary and exegesis
Chapter 8: Grammar and grammarians
Chapter 9: Author, audience, text
Chapter 10: Dictionaries and encyclopedias
Chapter 11: Commentaries
Chapter 12: Grammars and other forms of erudition
Chapter 13: Early medieval grammars
List of works cited
Indices
Manuscripts
General
Law, Vivien, The Insular Latin grammarians, Studies in Celtic History, 3, Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1982.
93–97
Contributors
Dennis Groenewegen
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September 2018, last updated: June 2023