Alexander de Villa Dei
Alexander de Villa Dei (also Alexander Gallus ; * around 1170 in Villedieu-les-Poêles , Normandy ; † unknown) was a French canon and author of a rhyming grammar.
Life
Alexander studied in Paris and later taught in Dol-de-Bretagne . He was canon in Avranches and is best known as the author of a Latin didactic poem, the Doctrinale , which he completed around the year 1200. The work, written in Leonine hexameters , provides (based on Donat and Priscian ) basic knowledge of Latin grammar :
- Regular declination (vv. 29–363)
- Irregular declination (vv. 364–457)
- Comparison of adjectives (vv. 458–498)
- The grammatical genera (vv. 499–693)
- Perfect and supine stems (vv. 694–949)
- Incomplete and irregular verbs (vv. 950-1047)
- Formation of verbs through affixes (vv. 1048-1073)
- Administration of the case (vv. 1074-1368)
- Sentence construction (vv. 1369–1549)
- Prosody and metrics (vv. 1550–2281)
- Word accent (vv. 2282–2360)
- Rhetorical figures (vv. 2361–2641)
In addition to the Doctrinal , Alexander wrote numerous other writings, including a. the Ecclesiale (a kind of Christian counterpart to Ovid's Fasti ) and the Computus ecclesiasticus (which deals with the calculation of ecclesiastical festivals).
Entry in Schedel's world chronicle of 1493
Alexander de Villa Dei has his own short entry including a portrait in Hartmann Schedel's World Chronicle of 1493, a kind of encyclopedia of the late Middle Ages:
"Alexander de villa dei a lerer of the holy writes. sant Benedicten (literally sant Franciscen) ordens even wrote a useful book for the pupils and wrote it in three tayl. and so looks to Scribere clericulis etc. "
(Alexander de Villa Dei: a teacher of the Holy Scriptures, belonged to the order of the Benedictines (some also think of the Franciscans), wrote a useful book for the students at that time and divided it into three parts. [...])
Fonts
- Doctrinale (P. 3.4): With Commentum valde utile . Richard Paffraet, Deventer 1495 ( digitized edition )
- Summarium biblicum - MS-B-202. North. Rhineland [around 1500]. Digitized
- Medulla aurea de arte grammatica quattuor partium Alexandri: de mendis incuria ... vocabuloru [m] verissima adaucta. Koelhoff, Colon 1501. Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf
- Doctrinal Alexandri: cum sententiis: notabilibus et vocabulorum lucida expositione: nonnullis annexis argumentis cum eorundem replicis. Hochfedder, Metz approx. 1508. Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf
- Glosa prime partis Alexandri Joannis Synthen. Richard Paffraet, Deventer 15.XII.1490. Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf
- Glosa Joānis Sinthē super secunda parte Alexandri bene emendata. Jakob von Breda, Deventer 31.X.1489. Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf
Edition
- Dietrich Reichling (Ed.): The Doctrinale of Alexander de Villa-Dei. Critical-exegetical edition with introduction, list of manuscripts and prints, together with registers. Berlin 1893; Reprint Leipzig without year (= Monumenta Germaniae Paedagogica. Volume 12); Reprint (of the 1893 edition) Franklin Books, New York 1974 (= Studies in the history of education. Volume 11). ISBN 0-8337-2920-9 .
literature
- Reinhold F. Glei : Alexander de Villa Dei (approx. 1170–1250), Doctrinale. In: Wolfram Ax (ed.): Latin teachers in Europe. Fifteen portraits from Varro to Erasmus of Rotterdam. Böhlau, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-412-14505-X , pp. 291-312
Web links
- Literature by and about Alexander de Villa Dei in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Alexander de Villa Dei in the German Digital Library
- Works by Alexander de Villa Dei in the complete catalog of incandescent prints
- Publications about Alexander de Villa Dei in the Opac der Regesta Imperii
Individual evidence
- ↑ The frequently mentioned date 1250 is speculation.
- ^ Friedrich Winterhager : Latin lessons for nuns in the Ebstorf monastery around 1490 under the influence of the Bursfeld reform movement. In: Medical historical messages. Journal for the history of science and specialist prose research. Volume 34, 2015 (2016), pp. 79–85, here: p. 83.
- ↑ Hartmann Schedel: Weltchronik 1493. Colored and commented complete edition , introduction and commentary by Stephan Füssel, Augsburg 2004, ISBN 3-8289-0803-9 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Alexander de Villa Dei |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French author |
DATE OF BIRTH | around 1170 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Villedieu (Normandy) |
DATE OF DEATH | around 1240 |