tid00341930

Text-inc Id:

tid00341930

Headings:

Donatus, Aelius Janua. Add: Cato: Disticha

Subjects:

grammar

Analysis of content:

1. [a1] [Carmen.] Incipit: [I]anuam sum rudibus primam cupientibus artem | Nec sine me quisquam rite peritus erit ... Explicit: ‘Ergo legas studiumque tibi rudis adiice lector | Nam celeri studio discere multa potes. [8 lines]’
2. [a1r] Donatus, Aelius [pseudo-]: [Rudimenta grammatices: Ianua]. Incipit: ‘[P]oeta que pars est? Nomen est. Quare est nomen? Quia significat substantiam ...’ [c2v] Explicit: ‘... quia coniungit ceteras partes orationis in oratione.’ ‘Explicit Liber Donati.’
3. [c3r] [Epistola Catonis.] ‘[C]um ego Cato animadverterem quam plurimos homines graviter errare ...’ [c3r] Explicit: ‘... Legere enim et non intelligere est negligere.’
4. [c3r] [Breves sententiae.] Incipit: ‘Itaque Deo supplica. ...’ [c3v] Explicit: ‘Libenter ferto amorem.’
5. [c3v] [Disticha Catonis.] Incipit: ‘Si Deus est animus nobis ut carmina dicunt | Hic tibi precipue sit pura mente colendus ...’ [c8r] Explicit: ‘... Hos brevitas sensus fecit me coniungere binos.’

Imprint:

[Venice Nicolaus Jenson 4° Janua also recorded as Donatus minor (i.e., Rudimenta grammatices). For identification of the text as the medieval grammar Janua see W. O. Schmitt, ‘Die Ianua (Donatus) – ein Beitrag zur lateinischen Schulgrammatik des Mittelalters und der Renaissance’, Beiträge zur Inkunabelkunde, 3e Folge 4 (1969) pp.43-80 Secundo folio: Huic Deo. Ac[cusativ]o hunc Deum. ... about 1478]

Collation:

[a-c⁸]. 24 ll. Woodcut frame (red ink) on [a1r]; woodcut initials on [a1r] and [c3r]. Other initials in red ink.

References:

Source: BSB-Ink I-128 (digital copy (urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb00035885-4). ISTC: id00341930 GW 8991. created by Alessandra Panzanelli.