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moyen age. Faute d'avoir sous la main les livres de classe des maitres qui 

 enseignerent au vii", au viii" et au ix° sitele, on se fait quelques illusions 

 sur leurs connaissances ; la publication de trait^s comme celui de notre 

 grammairien, comme ceux de Clement I'trlandais, de Smaragde, etc., permettra 

 de reformer ou de preciser ce que nous savons a cet egavd, et contribuera ainsi 

 k felairer una ^poque peu connue." I may add that they are also of 

 importance for the textual criticism of the earlier grammarians they quote, as 

 frequently they worked on better Mss. of the latter than we now possess. 

 Sometimes, too, they preserve passages from grammarians whose works are 

 no longer extant. 



By far the greater portion of the compilation of Clemens comes from 

 Priscian and Donatus. In addition he quotes many passages from Pompeius,' 

 Cominianus,- Consentius,' Probus/ Sergius/ Virgilius Maro Grammatieus,^ 

 Isidorus,' Maximianus (i.e. Maximus Victorinus), Paperinus or Papirianus, 

 Hieronymus, and Augustinus.^ The origin of the passages quoted under the 

 names of Plinius Secundus and Terrentius Grammaticus is doubtful. A 

 number of examples are cited from Vergil the poet, Luean, Horace, Cicero, 

 Sallust, Suetonius, and luveneus, but these are taken from the foregoing 

 grammarians. A considerable portion of the Ars, fol. 16 r°-31 v° of the 

 Bern ms., was transcribed by me in full, but I have not thought it worth 

 while to publish it until an opportunity of seeing the Bamberg MS. should 

 present itself. In the meantime as a specimen of the work and of the 

 manner in which grammar was taught in the court-school at that period, 

 I give as an Appendix to this paper that section of the treatise which deals 

 with conjunctions, on fol. 28 v°-30 r° of the MS. 



I cannot terminate without recording my thanks to the authorities of 

 the City-Libraries at Ziirich and Bern for the readiness with which they 

 gave me access to their mss., and also to Dom Louis Gougaud of the 

 Benedictine Abbey, Farnborough, Hampshire, for assistance rendered during 

 the compilation of this paper. 



' Cf. Hagen (Anecdota Helvetica, pp. clxsxv-cxc). 



2 Cominianus is always quoted from the Ars Grammatica of Charisius, and the extracts in Clemens 

 are of no little value for the emendation of the text of the latter, cf. Hagen, pp. clv-clxiii. 

 ' Cf. Hagen, pp. cxc-cxcii. 



* Cf. Hagen, pp. cli-clii. 



* Some of the passages quoted by Clemens under the name of Sergius do not occur elsewhere, 

 cf. Hagen, pp. cxcii-cxcv. 



* The forty -three passages quoted by Clemens from Virgilius are printed by Hagen on pp. 189-201. 

 ' Cf. Hagen, pp. cclv-cclvi. 



^ On the last four cf. Hagen, pp. ccli-ocliv. 



