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Floriacensis, and the same inscription occurs in the upper margin of fol. 123v°.' 

 The first ten folios are in a rather mutilated state, and in some places the 

 writing is no longer legible. There are a number of marginal notes, most of 

 which are in a modern hand. 



This MS. contains a number of grammatical treatises, which are of great 

 importance for the history of grammatical doctrines in the Middle Ages. 

 They have been studied by Hagen (Catalogus, etc. p. 178 ; Anecdota 

 Helvetica, 1870, pp. xxxii-xxxvii, eli, elv, clxxxv, cxc, cxcii, ccli, celv, 

 189-201, et passim, ap. Keil, Grammatici Latini, Supplementum), and by 

 Manitius (Geschichte, etc., 1911, pp. 127,132, 281, 468). I am here only 

 concerned with the first work in this MS., which occupies fol. 1 r°-31 v°. This 

 is an incomplete copy of the Ars Gramma tica, compiled by an Irishman 

 named Clemens Scottus, who emigrated to France in the time of Charlemagne, 

 and was teaching at the Court-School under the latter's successor, Louis the 

 Pious. A full and excellent account of him has been given by Manitius 

 (Geschichte, etc., 1911, pp. 456-458, 67, 188 ; see also Esposito, Hermathena, 

 1907, xiv, pp. 523, 528 ; 1909, xv, p. 360 ; 1911, xvi, p. 329). 



The work of Clemens is found entire in a tenth-century MS. at Bamberg, 

 M.V.18, fol. 1 r°-70v''. Portions of it occur in MSS. at Eonie, Leyden, Paris, 

 Munich, and Valenciennes (see Manitius, loc. cit., p. 458). It has not yet 

 been printed. 



The Bern MS. comprises the greater part of the treatise : — 



Fol. 1 r''-16r° : In a more or less injured condition. The beginning is 

 missing, owing to the loss of the first quaternion of the MS. 

 Fol. 16 r°-21 r" : The section dealing with pronouns. 

 Fol. 21 r°-23 r° : De Verbo. 

 Fol. 23 r°-27 v : De Adverbio. 

 Fol. 27 V--28 v" : De Participio. 

 Fol. 28 v°-30 r° : De Coniunctione. 

 Fol. 30 r°-31v°: De Prepositionibus. 



The additional matter which follows in the Bamberg MS. is wanting here. 



The work of Clemens Scottus is, like the other grammatical treatises of 

 the early Middle Ages, merely a compilation from the writings of previous 

 grammarians. But none the less the publication of these treatises offers a real 

 interest, as M. Eoger (Ars Malsaehani, Paris, 1905, p. vii, sq.) has well pointed 

 out : — " Si les ouvrages de ce genre n'ont pas de valeur intrinseque, ils 

 presentent un reel inter^t pour I'histoire del'enseignement grammatical au 



' On fol. 127 v° in the upper margin : Liber sci Benedicti Floriacensis Monasterii. 



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