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The Medieval Accessus ad Auctores

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Edwin A. Quain S.J.
Edwin A. Quain S.J.*
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The custom of medieval commentators on classical authors of prefixing to their works a schema generally called an accessus has long been known. In such a prefatory note they treated of items such as the following: vita auctoris, titulus operis, intentio scribentis, materia operis, utilitas, and cui parti philosophiae supponatur In different works the number of these items might be curtailed or expanded, but the common purpose of providing an introductory summary to the work in question, is present in all forms of the accessus.

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Traditio , Volume 3 , 1945 , pp. 215 - 264
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1 The first mention of the accessus by a modern scholar is that of Sebastian Gunther, Geschichte der litter arischen Anstalten in Baiern (München 1810) I, 271: ‘Ich habe mehrere solche Auslegungen gesehen, die grossentheils die Aufschrift führten: explanationes oder accessus ad poetas.’ Sporadic mention is found, mainly in M. Manitius, Geschichte der lateinischen Literatur des Mittelalters (München, 3 v. 1911–1931) especially I, 167; 482; 505; 512. III, 314; most of Manitius’ references are to Schepss and Przychocki as below. Traube, L., Vorlesungen und Abhandlungen II, Einleitung in die lateinische Philologie des Mittelalters (edit. Lehmann, P, München 1911) 165: ‘Man fasste diese sogennanten accessus öfters zusammen und hatte dann eine richtige Schulliteraturgeschichte. Es scheint, dass hierbei Remigius von Auxerre ein leitendes Beispiel war. Gewöhnlich sind die accessus nach bestimmten Gesichtspunkten angelegt. Man findet diese Gesichtspunkte der römischen Literatur zuerst bei Boethius. Da wird nach sechs Dingen gefragt: intentio, utilitas, ordo, si germanus propriusque liber, inscriptio operis, ad quem philosophiae partem. Später heisst es in principio omnium librorum tria [oder quattuor oder quinque] requirenda esse videtur: persona, tempus, locus.’ Lehmann, P., ‘Literaturgeschichte im Mittelalter I,’ Germanisch-romanische Monatschrift 4 (1912) 572: ‘ Kommentaren älterer lateinischer Dichter vorangeschickt waren und kurz über den Autor und seine Schriften nach einem bestimmten Schema orientierten; in diesen Accessus ad poetas, die für die Einführung in die schulmässige Lektüre berechnet waren, hatte man literargeschichtliches Material.’ Przychocki, G., ‘Accessus Ovidiani,’ [Symbolae ad veterum auctorum historiam atque ad medii aevi studia philologa], Rosprawy Akademii Umiejetnosci Wydzial Filologizny (Dissertations of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Philological section) Series III, 65–126 (Krakow 1911; also published separately, same year). Schepss, G., Conradus Hirsaugiensis Dialogus super Auctores sive Didascalon (Würzburg 1889). Young, Karl, ‘Chaucer's Appeal to the Platonic Deity,’ Speculum 19 (1944) 1–13.Google Scholar

2 Complete references to the studies made in these fields on the accessus will be given below when each of these fields will be explored as to its use.Google Scholar

3 Cf. Rand, E. K., ‘The Classics in the thirteenth century,’ Speculum 4 (1929) 252.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

1 Cf. n.1, supra. ‘Conradus Hirsaugiensis natione Teutonicus, Spirensis dioecesis, vir in divinis scripturis et in saecularibus litteris valde peritus, philosophus, rhetor, musicus et poeta insignis, multa praeclara composuit opuscula, in quibus ornata sententiarum dispositio et venusti sermonis cultura nulli veterum inferiorem suum declarat auctorem Quidquid autem Conradus scripsit, Tullianam resonat eloquentiam Claruit sub Conrado imperatore, a.d. 1140,’ Fabricius III, 79, quoted by Schepss, op. cit. 8. As to Conrad, cf. M. Manitius, op. cit. III, 315.Google Scholar

2 Dialogus 20–33.Google Scholar

3 Dialogus 57–60.Google Scholar

4 Schepss 10–11.Google Scholar

5 Cf. Haskins, C. H., The Renaissance of the Twelfth Century (Cambridge, Mass. 1933) 93–126 and Paré, G., Brunet, A., Tremblay, P, La Renaissance du XII e siècle (Paris 1933) 56–179.Google Scholar

6 Cf. supra, introd. n. 1.Google Scholar

7 Monac. lat. 19475 (olim Tegernseensis 1475, s. xii) is a collection of accessus to the following auctores: Ovid (Epp.), Prudentius, Cato, Avianus, Maximianus, Homerus Latinus, Physiologus, Theodulus, Arator, Prosper, Sedulius, Ovid (Ars Amat., Remedia, Ex Ponto, Tristia, Amoves, Fasti), Lucan, Cicero, Boethius, Priscian, Horace. MSS catalogues often suggest and occasionally mention the presence of accessus; cf. Vat. lat. 1593 (Ovid, Metamorph.) s. xii ex. (Codices Vaticani Latini, ed. Nogara, B., Romae 1912, I, 87); Vat. Reg. 72, 138, 230 (Codices Reginenses Latini in Bibliotheca Vaticana, ed. Wilmart, A., Romae 1937). For references to other MSS, cf. Przychocki 79.Google Scholar

8 Przychocki, op. cit. 80–85.Google Scholar

9 Cf. Conrad, supra, at n. 2: “Quorum omnium brevis solutio videtur mihi quaedam ad auctores intelligendos introductio Nec etiam a te magna requiro; non ut totius domus apertae supellectilem scruteris, sed clausis claves adhibeas ostiis; non au torum quaero lectionem vel explicationem ”Google Scholar

10 Conrad, Dialogus 45; Przychocki, op. cit. 106; The sections of the text italicized above are, in Przychocki, in Roman but with a space between the letters to make them stand out.Google Scholar

11 The proofs of these statements Will be given in extenso in the later chapters of this paper when we treat of the rhetoricians and dialecticians.Google Scholar

12 Przychocki 103. Apparently Przychocki got his notion of the influence of scholastic philosophy on the development of the accessus from the remarks of Ehwald, R., ‘Ad historiam carminum ovidianorum recensionemque symbolae,’ Programm des Herzoglichen Gymnasium Ernestinum zu Gotha 2 (1892) 1–2, from which he quotes in another connection: ‘Nolo fusius nunc in haec ipsa inquirere eorumque initia, quae tarnen omnia cum Aristotelicae philosophiae studiis coniuncta ad unum quasi fontem referenda esse clamat codicum diversissimorum consensus, nec tertio decimo demum saeculo scholasticum hunc excultum esse usum, sed prioribus iam saeculis in monasteriorum scholis illa ratione scriptores veteres esse explicatos saeculi undecimi docet Benedictoburanus commentarium metamorphoseon cum praefatione continens in quo leguntur haecce, ex quibus etiam ante scriptores ipsius aetatis latiore quasi circuitu eadem adnotari solita esse concludas: cum multa possent inquiri in capite uniuscuiusque libri, moderni autem gaudentes brevitate tria principaliter inquirenda statuere id est materiam intentionem et cui parti philosophiae supponatur.’ Ehwald in this connection refers to Haase, F, De medii aevi studies philologicis (Breslau 1856) 13: ‘Non autem credendum est fuisse magnum quoddam studium historiae litterariae, quo qui vera nesciebant, falsa effingere adducerentur; a quo studio quantopere abhorruerint medii aevi docti homines, saepissime ii testati sunt qui post vulgatam philosophiam Aristotelicam commentarios in libros cuiuslibet generis scripserunt; hi enim praefatione constanter sic composita usi, ut libri de quo agerent quattuor causas explicarent, ubi causam efficientem memorabant, brevissime plerumque libri auctorem appellabant, raro aliqua de eius vita et scriptis addebant.’ Both of these inferences are drawn from the late (13th century) use of the accessus; cf. Paré-Brunet-Tremblay, op. cit. 116, ‘Ces introductions, dont le plan consiste régulièrement à exposer les causes efficiente, matérielle, formelle et finale de l'ouvrage, telles qu'on en rencontre souvent au XIIIe siècle.’ They do not seem to refer to the invention of the technique in the works of early Aristotelian commentators, a conclusion which, as we shall see, can be maintained.Google Scholar

13 A detailed discussion of this matter would go far beyond the scope of this paper, but out of the welter of bibliographical data that is given on the subject, the following are really valuable. Bartsch, H., Albrecht von Halberstadt und Ovid im Mittelalter (Quedlinburg 1861) is the source of much else that has been written along these lines; Comparetti, D., Virgil in the Middle Ages (New York 1929) is mainly on Virgil but has many remarks on Ovid; Peeters, F, Les Fastes d'Ovide (Bruxelles 1938); Schevill, G., Ovid and the Renaissance in Spain (Berkeley 1916) in which the first chapter gives a survey of the data outside of Spain; Sedlmayer, J., ‘Beiträge zur Geschicht der Ovidienstudien im Mittelalter,’ Wiener Studien 6 (1884); Nogara, B., ‘Di alcune vite e commenti medioevali di Ovidio,’ Miscellanea Ceriani (Milano 1910) is most informative and suggestive; Pansa, G., Ovidio nel medioevo e nella tradizione popolare (Sulmona 1924) and De Nino, A., Ovidio nella tradizione popolare di Sulmona (Casalbordino 1886) contain many oral traditions which provide a contrast to the literary traditions. Ghislaberti, F, Integumenta Ovidii Joannis de Garlandia (Milano 1933); Paetow, L. J., The Battle of the Seven Liberal Arts (Berkeley 1929) and The Arts Course in Mediaeval Universities (Berkeley 1914); Paris, G., Les anciennes versions françaises de l'Art d'aimer et des Remědes d'Amour d'Ovide (Paris 1884) is essential for the study of Ovid's influence on French literature; the following will be helpful: Faral, E., Recherches sur les sources latines des contes et romans courtois du moyen-ǎge (Paris 1913); Jeanroy, A., Les origines de la poésie lyrique en France au moyen ǎge (Paris 1925); a good summary will be found in Rand, E. K., Ovid and His Influence (Debt to Greece and Rome, Boston 1924) and the same author's ‘The Metamorphoses of Ovid in Le Roman de la Rose,’ Studies in the History of Culture (1942) is a detailed study of the influence of Ovid on Jean de Meun. On MSS of Ovid cf. Manitius, M., ‘Beiträge zur Geschichte römischer Dichter im Mittelalter,’ Philologus 47 (1889) and ‘Philologisches aus alten Bibliothekskatalogen,’ Rheinisches Museum (1892); also Buttenweiser, H., ‘Manuscripts of Ovid's Fasti: the Ovidian Tradition in the Middle Ages,’ Trans. Amer Philol. Assoc. 71 (1940) 45–51. For Chaucer cf. Shannon, E. F., Chaucer and the Roman Poets (Harvard Studies in Comp. Lit. 7, Cambridge, Mass. 1929).Google Scholar

14 Vat. lat. 1479; cf. B. Nogara, Miscellanea Ceriani (n. 13, supra).Google Scholar

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16 Origen, De Principiis IV, 11 (GCS, Origines Werke V, ed. Koetschau, P, Leipzig 1913, p. 311–312): ‘Tripliciter ergo describere oportet in anima sua unumquemque divinarum intelligentiam litterarum: id est ut simpliciores quique aedificentur ab ipso, ut ita dixerim, corpore scripturarum (sic enim appellamus communem ilium et historialem intellectum); si qui vero aliquantum iam proficere coeperunt et possunt amplius aliquid intueri, ab ipsa scripturae anima aedificentur; qui vero perfecti sunt et similes his, de quibus apostolus dicit: “Sapientiam autem loquimur inter perfectos, sapientiam vero non huius saeculi neque principum huius saeculi, qui destruentur, sed loquimur dei sapientiam in mysterio absconditam, quam praedestinavit deus ante saecula in gloriam nostram,” hi tales ab ipsa “spiritali lege,” “quae umbram habet futurorum bonorum,” tamquam ab spiritu aedificentur. Sicut ergo homo constare dicitur ex corpore et anima et spiritu, ita etiam sancta scriptura, quae ad hominum salutem divina largitione concessa est.’ Noteworthy also is Gregorius Magnus, Hom. xv in Evangelia (PL 76, 1131) where he is explaining Luke viii, 4–15. It is the parable of the seed that fell by the wayside, among thorns, on rocks and on good ground, which was explained by Christ to the Apostles as the word of God. Gregory remarks: ‘Unde et idem Dominus per semetipsum dignatus est exponere quod dicebat, ut sciatis rerum significationes quaerere in iis quae per semetipsum noluit explanare. Exponendo ergo quod dixit figurate se loqui innotuit, quatenus certos vos redderet cum vobis nostra fragilitas verborum illius figuras aperiret.'Google Scholar

17 Jerome, St., Ep. xxii, 30 Ad Eustochium, (ed. Hilberg, I., CSEL 54, 1910) 189 and Augustine, St., Confessiones I, xiii (ed. Knöll, P, Leipzig 1926) 15.Google Scholar

18 Augustine, St., De doctrina Christiana II, 60 (Florilegium Patristicum 24, ed. Vogels, H. J., Bonn 1930) 46. cf. Exod. iii, 22; xi, 2; xii, 35.Google Scholar

19 Deut. xxi, 10–13: ‘Si egressus fueris ad pugnam contra inimicos tuos, et tradiderit eos Dominus Deus tuus in manu tua, captivosque duxeris, et videris in numerum captivorum mulierem pulchram, et adamaveris eam, voluerisque habere uxorem, introduces eam in domum tuam; quae radet caesariem et circumcidet ungues et deponet vestem in qua capta est.'Google Scholar

20 Maurus, Rhabanus, De clericorum institutione III, 18 (PL 107, 396).Google Scholar

21 Cf. Paré-Brunet-Tremblay, op. cit. 147–149.Google Scholar

22 Thurot, C., ‘Extraits de divers manuscrits latins pour servir à l'histoire des doctrines grammaticales au moyen ǎge,’ Notices et extraits des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque Nationale 22, 2 (1868) 103–104.Google Scholar

23 Distinctly refreshing is the viewpoint of Douglas Bush, Mythology and the Renaissance Tradition (Minneapolis 1932) 6, 12: ‘ the genial Ovid would probably have been less disturbed than [modern] scholars if he had known not merely that he would not wholly die, but that through the centuries he would be, like Caesar's wife, all things to all men. Some, though by no means all of the elements of that popularity [of Ovid in the Middle Ages] were alien to the real Ovid, but we can ill afford to patronize medieval students who, whatever their occasional vagaries, had a vital contact with Latin literature. Their classical past was a usable one—as ours hardly is—and the diversity of uses that the Latin authors served is the best proof of a fruitful tradition. How was a medieval translator to make intelligible to readers such a poem as the Ars Amatoria? With the self-confidence and independence that is sometimes called medieval naiveté he made over Ovid for his own purposes and to suit his own world.’ When a humane openmindedness such as this becomes the characteristic trait of writers on the Middle Ages we shall no longer have discussions to which the word of Abailard—said, no doubt unfairly, of Anselm of Laon—applies: ‘Cum ignem accenderet, domum suam fumo implebat, non luce illustrabat’ (PL 178, 123).Google Scholar

24 Przychocki, op. cit. 108. Thilo-Hagen, Servii Grammatici in Vergilii Aeneidos (Leipzig 1923) I, 1–3. Cf. Vita Vergilii Donatiana, in Brummer, J., Vitae Vergilianae (Leipzig 1912) 11–19.Google Scholar

25 Vat. lat. 2781; Przychocki 108.Google Scholar

26 Przychocki 110.Google Scholar

27 Cod. Marcianus, s. xii.Google Scholar

28 Cf. supra, at n. 2.Google Scholar

29 Halm, C., Rhetores minores latini (Leipzig 1863) I, 141; I, 102–103. To these may be added Julius Victor, C., Ars rhetorica (Halm 374, 424) and Albinus, De arte rhetorica dialogus (ibid, 527): ‘Plenaria causa septem habet circumstantias, personam, factum, tempus, locum, modum, occasionem, facultatem. In persona quaeritur quis fecerit, in facto quid fecerit, in tempore quando fecerit, in loco ubi factum sit, in modo quomodo fieri potuisset, in occasione cur facere voluisset, in facultate, si ei suppeditaret potestas faciendi.'Google Scholar

30 Rabe, H., Rhetores graeci VI (Leipzig 1913) 140.Google Scholar

31 Przychocki 114–115.Google Scholar

1 Roman law as codified by Justinian was in the Middle Ages known as the Corpus iuris civilis, and Digest, Code, Institutes, and Novels were grouped, somewhat arbitrarily, into a) three Digesta (Digestum Vetus, Infortiatum, Digestum Novum), b) the Codex [I–IX], c) the Tres Libri [Cod. X–XII], d) the Instituta, e) the Authenticum (Novellae). Cf. Hazeltine, H. D., ‘Roman and Canon Law in the Middle Ages,’ CMH V, 697–764; F C. von Savigny, Geschichte des römischen Rechts im Mittelalter, III (2nd ed. Heidelberg 1834) 422–504.Google Scholar

2 The sources for this story are given by Savigny, Geschichte III, 92–102 and are mainly: an Italian chronicle of the fourteenth century which says: ‘E per commandamento de esso sommo Pontefice Papa Innocenzio II li pisani pridie nonas augusti armorno 46 galee: furono alla costa de Malfi et quello di per forza lo preseno cum septe galee e doe naue: in la quale citta trouorno le pandette composte dalla Cesarea Majesta de Justiniano Imperatore; dopoi brusunno quella, e l'altro di andorno a trani; et quello preseno per forza.’ The second item is to be found in an historical poem of the fourteenth century, reading: Malfia Parthenopes datur et quando omne per aequor Unde fuit liber Pisanis gestus ab illis Juris, et est Pisis Pandecta Caesaris alti. Savigny rejects the story, leaning on the testimony of Odofredus who mentions that a copy of the Digest had been brought to Pisa from Constantinople in the time of Justinian. He concludes: ‘Und so ist also die ganze Sache noch immer unter die zahlreichen Fabeln zu rechnen, wodurch der Patriotismus der Italiener die Ehre der Vaterstadt zu verherrlichen suchte.’ To this negative testimony may be added the account in a twelfth-century chronicle written by a contemporary: ‘A. D. MCXXXVI. Pridie nonas Augusti fuerunt Pisani cum xliv galeis super Malfim et ipso die capta est, et cum septem galeis et duabus aliis multis navibus, combusta est et prorsus exspoliata est. Eadem vero die Trani capta est.’ This chronicle continues with other events and makes no mention of the finding of the Pandects. The similarity between this and the Italian account given above, suggest that the contemporary record was embellished two centuries later. Cf. Annales Pisani di Bernardo Maragone, in Muratori, Rer Ital. Scriptores VI, ii, 9–10 (edit. Gentile, M. L.): Maragone lived between 1110 and 1188 and was a prominent figure in the political life of Pisa, cf. Schaube, A., ‘Bernardo Maragone doch der Verfasser der Annales Pisani,’ Neues Archiv der Gesellschaft für ältere deutsche Geschichtskunde 10 (1885) 141–161. Kantorowicz, H., ‘Ueber die Entstehung der Digestenvulgata,’ Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte, Rom. Abt. [Hereafter cited as ZRGRom.] 30 (1909) 203: ‘Die Erzählung dass die Hs. in Amalfi gelegen habe, dann 1135 (oder 1137) von den Pisanern erbeutet ist Legende.'Google Scholar

3 The testimony of Odofredus as to Irnerius having been a teacher of the artes liberales before he turned to the study of the law is accepted by Savigny IV, 10–11 and III, 427 Odofredus said: ‘Dominus Yr. (Irnerius) qui fuit apud nos lucerna iuris i.e. primus qui docuit in civitate ista. Nam primo coepit studium esse in civitate ista in artibus Sed dominus Yr. dum doceret in artibus in civitate ista coepit per se studere in libris nostris, et studendo coepit docere in legibus et ipse fuit maximi nominis et fuit primus illuminator scientiae nostrae et quia primus fuit qui fecit glosas in libris nostris, vocamus eum lucernam iuris’ (In Dig. vetus, L. 6 de iust. et iure). Cf. Savigny IV, 11, testimony of Chronicon Urspergense as to the influence of the Countess Matilda on the direction of Irnerius’ studies. This background of Irnerius in the artes is a pregnant source for our interest in the origin of the accessus technique among the jurists. Fitting made a great deal of the study of law in the rhetorical schools of the Middle Ages, particularly the genus iudiciale; cf. Fitting, H., Die Anfänge der Rechtsschule zu Bologna (Berlin 1888) 92; cf. however the serious restrictions to this view in Kantorowicz, H., ‘A Medieval Grammarian on the Sources of the Law,’ Revue d'histoire du droit (Tijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis) 15 (1937) 37–39 and ZRGRom. 33 (1912) 417; 436.Google Scholar

4 Kantorowicz, H., Studies in the Glossators of the Roman Law (Cambridge 1938) 33. (Hereafter cited as: Kantorowicz, Glossators.)Google Scholar

5 Rashdall, H., The Universities of Europe in the Middle Ages (New edition, Powicke, F M. Emden, A. B., Oxford 1936) I, 121 and Kantorowicz, ZRGRom. 31 (1910) 50.Google Scholar

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7 Thus: Warnerius, Wernerius, Guarnerius, Gernerius, Irnerius, Hirnerius, Yrnerius. Cf. Savigny IV, 15.Google Scholar

8 Kantorowicz, Glossators is an edition of Brit. Mus. Royal MS 11. B. XIV which contains forty-one pieces of legal writings of the twelfth century by Irnerius and his followers, accompanied by a commentary on the glossators that is always illuminating and frequently brilliant. For an extensive review of this work see Kuttner, S., ‘Zur neuesten Glossatorenforschung,’ Studia et Documenta Historiae et Iuris 6 (Romae 1940) 275–319.Google Scholar

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1 Smalley, Beryl, The Study of the Bible in the Middle Ages (Oxford 1941) 74: ‘After a short prologue Hugh [of St. Victor] summarizes the various kinds of sacrifice prescribed in Leviticus, the persons who are to offer, the times and the seasons. This is not quite equivalent to the usual prologue, known as accessus or materia, with its causa scribendi, materia, intentio which was common to the grammarians, the theologians, and the lawyers.’ From this statement, I infer that the practice of an accessus was not notably developed among the exegetes. In any case, it would not seem that its use in that field or among the theologians is of great significance for the origins of the practice. Abailard in his Commentariorum super S. Pauli Epistolam ad Romanos libri quinque (PL 178, 785–786) speaks of Intentio generalis omnium epistolarum and of intentiones propriae [singularum epistolarum], materia and modus tractandi. Thierry of Chartres in his De sex dierum operibus mentions intentio, utilitas, titulus; cf. Hauréau, B., Notices et extraits de quelques manuscrits latins de la bibliothèque nationale I (Paris 1890) 52, citing from Paris B.N. lat. 647, (saec. XII). Cf. Wilmart, A., Codices Vaticani Reginenses, pp. 118 [Vat. Reg. lat. 50, fol. 77v] and 176 [Vat. Reg. lat. 79, fol. 74r], both of the twelfth century.Google Scholar

2 Abaelardi, Petri Glossae super Porphyrium (ed. Geyer, B., Beiträge zur Geschichte der Philosophie des Mittelalters, XXI, 1, 2, Münster 1919, pp. 2 and 111–113) has intentio, materia, modus tractandi, utilitas, per quam partem logicae. This work is a commentary on Boethius and hence it is clear whence Abailard took at least this use of the technique. Cf. also Cousin, V, Oeuvres inédits d’ Abélard (Paris 1848) 608. Jansen, W, Der Kommentar des Clarenbaldus von Arras zu Boethius De Trinitate, Ein Werk aus der Schule von Chartres im 12. Jahrhundert (Breslau 1926) 3*, a work which purports to be a complete edition of the MSS, strangely omits three folia. Thus, fol. 66r: ‘Librum hunc de Trinitate inchoantibus primo videndum est, quae sit auctoris intentio, quae libri utilitas, ad quem scribat [fol. 69r] Christianae religionis. etc.’ From the length of the indicated gap, it would appear that this is a rather substantial prologue and its omission is somewhat hard to understand.Google Scholar

3 ‘Sex igitur sunt quae in principio cuiusque doctrinalis operis inquirenda sunt, videlicet subiectum, agens, forma, finis, libri titulus et genus philosophiae.’ Le Opere di Dante, Testo Critico della Società Dantesca Italiana (Firenze 1921) Ep. XIII, 436.Google Scholar

4 Cf. Meyer, P, ‘Les manuscrits français de Cambridge’ (cod. St. Johns F − 30), Romania VIII (Paris 1879). This work of Peter of Peckham is said to be a vernacular adaptation of the Elucidarium of Honorius of Autun, in which he tells us: Cinc choses sunt en ja enquere Au commencement en liver fere: Ki fut autur e l'entitlement E la matire e la furme ensement, E la fin, par quei ceo est resun Fu fete la composiciun (487–492). He then continues in some detail on each one of the points and makes a distinction between ‘une fin générale e une autre espéciale.’ The entrance of the technique of the accessus into the vernacular in the thirteenth century is, perhaps, the final goal of this practice that had come so far over the centuries. Pierpont Morgan MS 761 (saec. xiii ex.) contains a complete text of this work.Google Scholar

5 Boethius’ works on mathematics, mainly translations from Nicomachus, show no indication of its use in that field. It is very probable that his interest in mathematics preceded his work on Porphyry and Aristotle, and hence it may be suggested that he did not become acquainted with the accessus until he turned to the philosophers.Google Scholar

6 This is not to imply that the practice was completely sterile in the twelfth century. The use of the technique could have been a stimulating and effective school practice even though the students were unaware of the steps whereby they were constrained to decide where in the field of philosophy they should locate the works of Ovid or Lucan.Google Scholar

7 Suringar, W H. D., Historia critica scholiastarum latinorum (Lyon 1854) I, 213, publishes a ‘Fragmentum scholiastae inediti ad Ciceronem De Inventione Rhetorica,’ to which he assigns a date very close to that of Boethius, on evidence that seems to me to be rather scanty.Google Scholar

8 The personal popularity of Abailard in the schools of Paris and his use of this technique in his lectures would have been a potent means of spreading the acquaintance with this form of prologue, among students of the twelfth century.Google Scholar

9 Cf. Kozik, Ignatius S., ‘St. Jerome's Biblical Preface’ (Fordham University, unpublished Master's dissertation, 1938).Google Scholar