Bod-Inc: E-065
Exercitium
Exercitium grammaticale puerorum.
Analysis of Content
a1r ‘Complanctus'. Incipit: ‘Complanctus super puerorum nimia detentione in obscuris et inutilibus grammatice. Gravi merore et iniquo animo ferendum existimo . . .’
a1v ‘Prologus'. Incipit: ‘[G]rammatice noticia eiusque institutio que Latinum et Grecum . . .’ Explicit: benedictus in sempiternum regnat. Amen
a2v ‘Diuisio libri'. Incipit: ‘[H]oc exercitium puerorum grammaticale pro nostris paruulis . . .’ Explicit: secundi finis concluditur
a3v ‘Ut preceptorum labor minuatur'. Incipit: ‘Pro pueris nostris instituendis in hoc opusculo . . .’ Explicit: multo breuius peruenient
a4r ‘Modus exercitandi se in hoc opusculo'. Incipit: ‘Si queratur quis erit modus quo . . .’ Explicit: conuigationis vsque finem
a4r Exercitium grammaticale puerorum. Incipit: ‘[A]ntequam ad genera et declinationes nominum procedatur . . .’ Explicit: in modico fidelis supra multate . . .secula regnat Extracts edited by Johannes Müller, Quellenschriften und Geschichte des deutschsprachlichen Unterrichts bis zur Mitte des 16. Jahrhunderts (Gotha, 1882; repr. Darmstadt, 1969), 7-42, and see also 244-52; Marijke van der Wal, ‘Latijn leren en de moedertaal observeren, Grammatikale opmerkingen over de volkstaal in het "Exercitium puerorum” 1485', Gramma (1988), 243-57; see also Helmut Puff, ‘Exercitium grammaticale puerorum. Eine Studie zum Verhältnis von pädagogischer Innovation und Buchdruck um 1500', in Schule und Schüler in Mittelalter. Beiträge zur europäischen Bildungsgeschichte des 9. bis 15. Jahrhunderts, ed. Martin Kintzinger, Sönke Lorenz and Michael Walter, Beihefte zum Archiv für Kulturgeschichte, 42 (Cologne, Weimar, and Vienna, 1996), 411-39.
Imprint
Imprint: Hagenau: Heinrich Gran, 30 July 1491. 4°.
Collation
Collation: a b8 c4 d e8 f4 g–i8 k4 l m8 n–v4.8.
References
ISTC: ie00135400
GW: GW 9499;
Hain: HC 6768;
BMC: BMC III 682;
Proctor: Pr 3173;
Others: BSB‑Ink E‑136; Sheppard 2228.
LCN: 14380859
Copies
Copy number: E-065(1)
Binding: Nineteenth-century half calf; bound for the Bodleian Library; cloth over paper boards; leather index tabs.
Size: 207 × 150 × 24 mm.
Size of leaf: 200 × 134 mm.
Initials, some with extensions into the margins, and paragraph marks are supplied in red or blue; capital strokes and underlining in red.
Provenance: Duplicate from the Royal Library, Munich; pencil no. ‘4197'(?) on a1r. Acquired between 1847 and c.1892, possibly in 1850; not in Catalogus (1843) with Appendix.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 5Q 6.57.
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