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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
For later use of prælectio see the index to the present volume.
[46] E. K. Rand’s introduction to the Loeb _Boethius_, page ix.
For the commented translation of the Analytics see Manitius I. 30; for
the resumption of the Analytics at Chartres, the section on John of
Salisbury’s _Metalogicus_ below, Chapter VI. C.
[47] The history of the use of Quintilian is set forth in Fierville’s
edition of Book I (Paris, 1890). This has been reviewed and extended by
F. H. Colson in the introduction to his edition of Book I (Cambridge
University Press, 1924).
[48] The assignment to Cicero is as early as Jerome. See Cornificius in
Pauly-Wissowa.
Halm shows very little use of the _Rhetorica ad Herennium_ during this
period. There is a full synopsis of this work in Wilkins’s introduction
to his edition of Cicero’s _De oratore_ (Oxford, 1893), page 56. Faral
shows in comparative tables that it is the source of the lists of figures
in the medieval _artes poeticæ_ (_Les arts poétiques du xiie et du xiiie
siècle_, Paris, 1924), pages 52-54.
[49] _Ars rhetorica._ It is praised by Cassiodorus.
[50] Julius Victor makes far the largest use of Quintilian.
[51] See Quintilian I. ix, and compare this and his II. iv with the
exercises of Hermogenes above in Chapter I. B. 2. c.
[52] The best edition of the _De nuptiis Philologiæ et Mercurii_ is
Dick’s, Leipzig (Teubner), 1925.
[53] “Officium uero meum tunc fuerat docte scribere legereque; nunc etiam
illud accessit ut meum sit erudite intellegere probareque.” III. 230.
Many of the usual topics are merely mentioned. Marked agreement with
this book is shown by Priscian, Diomedes, and Charisius; considerable
agreement, by Marius Victorinus and Maximus Victorinus. See Dick’s
references _ad loc._ It is used by Cassiodorus especially, and also by
Isidore. Bede’s use may be through Maximus Victorinus.
[54] Meique prorsum iuris esse quicquid Artes ceteræ proloquuntur. Nam
neque ipsam quam aures uestræ probauere, Grammaticam, neque alteram
opimi oris præcluem facultate, uel illam formarum diuersa radio ac
puluere lineantem sine meis posse rationibus explicari quis dubitat?
Quippe in dicione mea iureque consistunt sex normæ, quis constant ceteræ
disciplinæ. Nam prima est de loquendo, secunda de eloquendo, tertia de
proloquendo, quarta de proloquiorum summa, quinta de iudicando, quæ
pertinet ad iudicationem poetarum et carminum, sexta de dictione, quæ
dicenda rhetoribus commodata est. IV. 336-338.
[55] See below, Chapter VI.
[56] The compend uses Cicero and Quintilian, Aristotle’s _Topics_, but
above all Aristotle’s _Categories_. See Dick _ad loc._
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