11 manuscript fragments (10 on parchment, 1 on paper): 1) Alexander de Villa Dei, Doctrinale, with commentary. 2) Grammar. 3) Eberhardus of Bethune, Grecismus. 4) The Venerable Bede, Grammatical text. 5-8) Alexander de Villa Dei, Doctrinale (each fragment produced in a different location). 9) Grammar, in verse. 10) Priscian, Institutiones grammaticae, Books 17-18. 11) Grammar
Description:
In Latin.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Alexander, de Villa Dei., Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735., and Priscian, active approximately 500-530.
Subject (Topic):
Latin language, Grammar, and Manuscripts, Medieval
BEIN MS 1042.2: Imperfect: Beinecke Library has fragments of 16 leaves from first two quires., BEIN MS 1042.2: These fragments were removed from the original binding of the ms. Harangues et oraisons des anciens, Beinecke MS 1042 (Paris, circa 1530). From the collection of Anne de Polignac, comtesse de Rochefoucauld (wife of François II), which later came into the possession of the duc de Rohan, and then was purchased at the Labitte sale by Comte Ernest Armand. Purchased from Sam Fogg, London, on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund., BEIN MS 1042.2: Unbound. Covered in sheet of paper with manuscript note: Cahier A et B d'un livret imprimé à Angoulême en 1491 et intitulé: Questiones super minorem Donatum., Description based on bibliographies., and "Expliciunt questiuncule gra[m]maticales super donatum minorem engolisme impresse bene vise [et] correcte. Anno salutis christiane .M.CCCC.xCii.xvi. die mensis aprilis"--Colophon.
