Sedulius Scottus

"Sedulius Scottus's De quodam verbece, a hundred and forty lines of elegiacs, is one of the most exciting Latin poems to survive from the ninth century; it is an impressive piece of serio-comic writing, one that draws daring parallels between the death of a ram and the Passion of Christ."

Besides glosses and other textual annotations, early medieval Latin manuscript commonly feature technical signs, annotation symbols and sigla that reflect readership or provide a framework for interpretation and use. The early medieval Insular book users were particularly keen on using such devices. This article maps the usage of technical signs in a corpus of early medieval Irish manuscripts produced on the Continent or preserved and used there early after the production. In the centre of the inquiry are four manuscripts belonging to an Irish scholarly circle associated with Sedulius Scottus. The article concludes that: • Insular, and specifically Irish, annotators used a specific repertoire of technical signs; • This Insular/Irish repertoire is substantially distinct from the repertoire of technical signs used by Carolingian scribes and therefore allows for discerning books annotated by Insular/Irish users on the Continent; • A noticeable difference exists between various identifiable clusters of manuscripts annotated by Insular/Irish users, suggesting that different annotators and circles drew on different parts of the Insular repertoire; • The manuscripts from the Sedulius group stand out from among other Irish books produced on the Continent on account of the specific mode of annotation, which seems to have been particular to the circle of scholars that produced them; • The Greek Psalter of Sedulius, which contains the subscription of Sedulius Scottus, displays a pattern of sign use distinct from the one found in the manuscripts from the Sedulius group and therefore does not seem related to them; • One or two lightly-annotated manuscripts contain traces of annotation in the manner of the Sedulius circle and therefore may reflect activities of the scholars from this scholarly group.

, _Humanistica Lovaniensia_https://books.google.be/books/p/leuven_university_press?q=&hl=nl&vid=9789462700857&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&redir_esc=y; this article argues that, in light of classical and medieval Latin authors, especially within Virginian tradition, Petrarch's poem and Martini's painting meaningfully intersect, with Petrarch collaborating with Martini in suggesting to him composition and iconography, which become telling, like the three rhyming couplets, restored to a fresh context including MS tradition and MS illumination, Servius, Macrobius, Virgil, Sedulius Scottus, among others.

La relazione prende l'avvio da un rapido confronto fra la grammatica "prescrittiva" moderna dell'italiano per discenti madrelingua e il suo equivalente latino. Il testo scelto come campione per la lingua latina è un vero best seller della tarda antichità, l'Ars del grammatico Donato: l'opera, suddivisa in una breve Ars minor introduttiva e una più corposa Ars maior in tre libri, si impone sulla scena scolastica romana fin dai primi tempi della sua composizione e pubblicazione (seconda metà del IV secolo), e ha una ricchissima storia di tradizione, commento e riuso. Focalizzandoci in particolare sul terzo libro dell'Ars maior, relativo a vitia et virtutes orationis, cercheremo di tracciare alcune linee generali della ricezione di Donato nei grammatici successivi, dalla tarda antichità fino alla rinascenza carolingia: ripetizione o parafrasi del testo-guida; adattamento del testo-guida; ampliamento del testo-guida; discussione del testo-guida. Per ognuna di queste "tipologie di ricezione" saranno presentati, tradotti e commentati alcuni passi che possano rappresentare l'atteggiamento dei grammatici delle varie epoche nei confronti di un testo la cui auctoritas non è mai messa in discussione.

This paper focuses on the different definitions of the so-called mytacism in Latin grammarians (from the early Imperial period to 12th century treatises), starting from an assessment of the textual basis of their statements. Mytacism is a vitium orationis which affects the phonetic realisation of the final group vowel + [m] when followed by another vowel; mytacism also raises various phonetic and rhetorical issues such as weakening of the sound [m], nasalisation of the preceding vowel, elision and hiatus. Two competing theories in modern scholarship (weak nasal consonant vs. nasalised vowel) try to explain the pronunciation of the final group vowel + [m] followed by another vowel: however, ancient grammar does not possess a theoretical and terminological framework stringent enough to give an accurate phonetic description of this sound. Finally, the paper argues that mytacism is a linguistic mistake associated with the ancient perception of word boundary; its varying definitions allow us to recognize at least an elementary “phonological awareness” in ancient grammatical doctrines.

Sedulio Scoto: un profilo biografico e letterario alla luce dei suoi Carmina * * Questa "postilla" trae spunto dalla considerazione relativa alla sostanziale assenza, nel panorama scientifico italiano, di uno studio complessivo, di stampo biografico e storico-letterario, sulla vita e, soprattutto, sulle poesie di Sedulio Scoto. In questo intervento si è tentato di fornire, per quanto possibile, un suo profilo biografico alla luce dei suoi scritti, soprattutto quelli poetici (§ 1). Successivamente, è stato delineato un ritratto letterario dell'autore (§ 2), tentando di leggere le sue opere in chiave didattica e dedicando adeguato spazio al suo Collectaneum Miscellaneum (§ 3). Il paragrafo conclusivo è dedicato integralmente al suo corpus poetico (§ 4). In particolare, una prima sezione (§ 4.1) si sofferma sulla tradizione manoscritta dei Carmina. Dopo un rapido giudizio sulla poetica seduliana (§ 4.2), l'ultima parte (§ 4.3) presenta una analisi dell'intera raccolta, fornendo lo schema metrico e un breve riassunto del contenuto di ogni poesia.

Dutch translation of a short, fine poem by Sedulius Scottus

'Sedulius Scottus, Mijn leven & Carmina Burana, Vooruit', in: Jan Papy (red.), In vestigiis magistri, verjaardagsdagboek ter ere van professor Andries Welkenhuysen, Uitgeverij P, Leuven 2019, 30-31 [ISBN 978 94 9233 9867];

Sedulius Scottus’s Collectaneum Miscellaneum has preserved the contents table of a lost manuscript (here called Σ) transmitting a set of Augustinian works, for some very rare (c. Secundin and c. Gaud.). This manuscript directly served Sedulius, who extracted numerous passages from a dozen different treatises for his Collectaneum Miscellaneum and his Collectaneum in Apostolum. The study of these excerpts, the confrontation of the text they witness with the data of the direct tradition of the works and the analysis of the content of another lost manuscript, the MS. † Chartres, BM, 104 (101), linked to the collection Σ, make it possible to trace the circulation of this collection in the ninth century, to establish relationships with traditions from Liégeois and Auxerrois regions and thus to propose new hypotheses on the biography of Sedulius Scottus and the places that he frequented.

This note aims at pointing out an unnoticed aspect of Juvenal’s Fortleben in Sedulius
Scottus’ oeuvre. In carm. 6, 30, as he sets Hannibal’s loss of an eye in the Alps, and not in the Arno swamps, the Irish teacher and poet seems to reveal his knowledge of a scholion to Iuv. 10, 158 correspondent to the Late Antique redaction, as also does, some years later, Heiric of Auxerre. In the conclusion, the author reflects on the possible sources of the transfer of such episode into the Alpine scenery.