Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Editorial note regarding citations from manuscripts and publications
- A note on chronological terminology
- Introduction
- 1 Italian Renaissance education: an historiographical perspective
- 2 The elementary school curriculum in medieval and Renaissance Italy: traditional methods and developing texts
- 3 The secondary grammar curriculum
- 4 Latin authors in medieval and Renaissance Italian schools: the story of a canon
- 5 Reading Latin authors in medieval and Renaissance Italian schools
- 6 Rhetoric and style in the school grammar syllabus
- Conclusion
- Appendix I BL Harley 2653: the earliest known manuscript of Ianua
- APPENDIX II A handlist of manuscripts of Ianua
- Appendix III Manuscripts of Tebaldo's Regule
- Appendix IV Handlist of manuscripts of school authors produced in Italy and now found in Florentine libraries
- Appendix V Theoretical grammar manuscripts in Florentine libraries examined and included or eliminated as italian school grammars
- Appendix VI Authorities Cited Explicitly in Manuscripts of Major School Authors in Florentine Libraries
- Bibliography
- Index of manuscripts
- General index
Appendix IV - Handlist of manuscripts of school authors produced in Italy and now found in Florentine libraries
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 July 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Editorial note regarding citations from manuscripts and publications
- A note on chronological terminology
- Introduction
- 1 Italian Renaissance education: an historiographical perspective
- 2 The elementary school curriculum in medieval and Renaissance Italy: traditional methods and developing texts
- 3 The secondary grammar curriculum
- 4 Latin authors in medieval and Renaissance Italian schools: the story of a canon
- 5 Reading Latin authors in medieval and Renaissance Italian schools
- 6 Rhetoric and style in the school grammar syllabus
- Conclusion
- Appendix I BL Harley 2653: the earliest known manuscript of Ianua
- APPENDIX II A handlist of manuscripts of Ianua
- Appendix III Manuscripts of Tebaldo's Regule
- Appendix IV Handlist of manuscripts of school authors produced in Italy and now found in Florentine libraries
- Appendix V Theoretical grammar manuscripts in Florentine libraries examined and included or eliminated as italian school grammars
- Appendix VI Authorities Cited Explicitly in Manuscripts of Major School Authors in Florentine Libraries
- Bibliography
- Index of manuscripts
- General index
Summary
In the Italian middle ages and Renaissance, the increasing specialization of education led to the emergence of types of schoolbooks which tended to become not only distinctive themselves but also to differ from university teaching manuals (linked to the studium curriculum of rhetoric, law, philosophy, medicine and theology), as well as from elementary reading texts, theoretical grammar treatises or indeed from other types of medieval and Renaissance manuscript literature. Of course, such boundaries were not rigid. For example, it was not unknown for anthologies of school authors, especially the auctores minores, to include elementary theoretical grammar tracts. Nevertheless, surviving manuscript copies, as well as other contemporary evidence such as curriculum outlines and appointment documents, bear witness to an identifiable genre of school authors.
Medieval and Renaissance Florence offers particularly fertile ground for the investigation of school manuscripts; today's great Florentine libraries – the Medicea Laurenziana, Riccardiana and Nazionale Centrale – can boast hundreds of schoolbooks among their vast manuscript collections.
The following census is based on an examination of 1,305 manuscripts carried out mainly over two years (1992–4); as a result, it has been possible to identify 324 manuscripts as suitable for inclusion as school authors used in grammar schools in the period up to the end of the fifteenth century. At the end of the handlist, there follows a summarial list of all excluded manuscripts.
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- Humanism and Education in Medieval and Renaissance ItalyTradition and Innovation in Latin Schools from the Twelfth to the Fifteenth Century, pp. 386 - 425Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2001