Vocabvlarivm Petrarchicvm Minvs: A Handlist of Late Antique and Medieval Latin Words in the Works of Petrarch

Vivien Anne Law, 1954–2002

Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 124. Biographical Memoirs of Fellows, III ◽

10.5871/bacad/9780197263204.003.0009 ◽

2005 ◽

Author(s):

Michael Lapidge ◽

Peter Matthews

Keyword(s):

Old English ◽

Late Antique ◽

Anglo Saxon ◽

Early Medieval ◽

True Nature ◽

Medieval Latin ◽

Medieval Manuscripts ◽

The Relationship

Vivienne Law acquired a mastery of the field of late antique and early Medieval Latin grammar, her first task was to familiarise herself with the early medieval manuscripts in which grammatical texts were transmitted. This task necessitated constant travel to British and continental libraries in order to provide herself with transcriptions of grammatical texts; it also necessitated the acquisition of a huge collection of microfilms of grammatical manuscripts. Her work on these manuscripts soon revealed a vast and uncharted sea of unedited and unstudied grammatical texts, for the most part anonymous. A major component of her life's work was the attempt to chart this sea. Her earliest publications reveal a profound experience of grammatical manuscripts and a refusal simply to reiterate the opinions of earlier scholars. All these publications report new discoveries, such as previously unknown Old English glosses to the Ars grammatica of Tatwine, an early 8th-century Anglo-Saxon grammarian; or unsuspected aspects of the relationship between Anglo-Saxon and continental learning as revealed in the transmission of the grammars of Boniface and Tatwine; or the true nature of the jumbled and misunderstood grammar attributed to the early Irish grammarian Malsachanus.

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Historia Apollonii regis Tyri: A Fourteenth-Century Version of a Late Antique Romance. Ed. from Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, MS Vaticanus Latinus 1961, by William Robins. Toronto Medieval Latin Texts. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2019, xi, 123 pp., 1 b/w ill.

Mediaevistik ◽

10.3726/med.2019.01.136 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 32 (1) ◽

pp. 497-498

Author(s):

Albrecht Classen

Keyword(s):

Early Modern ◽

Fourteenth Century ◽

Central Italy ◽

Third Century ◽

Late Antique ◽

Medieval Latin ◽

Vatican City

One of the great medieval bestsellers, actually since the second or third century C.E., was the Historia Apollonii regis Tyri, extant not only in countless Latin manuscripts and then early modern prints, but also in numerous vernaculars. The present edition of Ms. Vaticanus Latinus 1961 makes available a highly trustworthy version from the middle of the fourteenth century copied in northern or central Italy, which contains part of a world chronicle, the Historie by Riccobaldo of Ferrara, into which the Historia Apollonii is embedded. Marginal notes indicate that this manuscript was in the possession of Giacomo di Giovanni Orsini in 1397, a good dating instrument, the terminus ad quem for our text. The language is mostly in classical or late antique Latin, but there are inferences from medieval Italian.

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