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Medieval rhetoric and poetic to 1400 : $b Interpreted from representative works
Baldwin, Charles Sears
Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism; Poetics -- History -- To 1500; Rhetoric, Medieval
[37] Utuntur notarii domini pape, 928. Fierville, in the study mentioned
above, note 2, finds: (1) stilus gallicus seu Aurelianensis, based on
stress (i.e., rhythmic), (2) stilus Tullianus, based on quantities, (3)
stilus romane curie. See below, Chapter VIII, B and C.
[38] Primo dierum, AH 51: 24.
[39] As in Matthew; see note 12 above.
[40] The references are to the pages of Mari’s _Trattati_. One of John’s
own poems (AH 50: 554) ends each stanza with a hexameter taken from
Vergil, Ovid, or Lucan.
[41] As a document also it is interesting both for its examples and, if
the text may be trusted, for some of its terms: “a rithmo qui constat ex
duabus _percussionibus_” (35); “in prosis que cantantur in ecclesia” (42,
the regular twelfth-century use, as for the hymns of Adam of St. Victor);
“frequenter contigit in gallicis consonantiis” (59); “sed in toto ymnario
quo nos utimur nonnisi tres diversitates metri autentice sunt” (60).
[42] For the common derivation of the _colores_ from the _Rhetorica ad
Herennium_ see the valuable tables in F 52-54.
[43] F presents many interesting correspondences, with indications for
further study.
[44] See above, Chapter V, footnote 31.
[45] Part of the interesting collection of Fulbert’s verse in PL 141 is
printed as prose.
[46] The ignoring of the quantity of an unstressed syllable appears in
such rimes as _chórīs_ with _salvatórĭs_, _vītā_ with _levítă_. Every
dissyllable stresses the penult (Alexander de Villedieu, _Doctrinale_,
2299); and the disregard of quantity is even more marked in calling it
indifferently a spondee. See below, Chapter VIII, note 44.
[47] Called also Bernard of Morlaix or Morlas. The poem, some 3000 lines,
is of 1140. It is printed in Wright’s _Anglo-Latin Satirical Poets and
Epigrammatists of the Twelfth Century_, vol. II, London, 1872 (Rolls
Series). A considerable portion, including the familiar parts, is in
Harrington’s _Medieval Latin_, Boston, 1925, pages 315-322. Bernard’s
rime is no less insistent in his _Mariale_, AH 50: 426.
[48] The modern revival of these parts is due largely to John Mason
Neale. His _Rhythm of Bernard de Morlaix, monk of Cluny, on the
celestial country_ gives verse renderings beginning: “The world is very
evil,” “Brief life is here our portion,” “There Jesus shall embrace
us,” “For thee O dear, dear country,” “Jerusalem the golden,” with
the corresponding Latin text (first ed. 1858; seventh, 1865). _Britt_
(170-173) quotes large portions.
[49] As in the musical setting of Horatio Parker.
[50] For an introduction to the Goliardic poetry see the article
_Goliard_ in Encyclopedia Britannica, with its bibliography.
[51] See the _Hymnum dicat turba fratrum_ above, page 120; the seven
Advent antiphons (_O Sapientia_, etc.) known as the seven O’s, and
_symbolism_ in the index.
[52] Lapis, petra, fundamentum, silex, etc., and further, mel de petra,
oleum de saxo, etc.
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