Krey—John of Salisbury and the Classics. 
969 
CHAPTER II. 
KNOWLEDGE OF THE CLASSICAL AUTHORS AS SHOWN BY HIS 
QUOTATIONS. 
That there was a classical revival in the twelfth century has 
become a generally recognized fact, but to what extent the 
scholars of that time were acquainted with the originals is not 
so well known. Sandys has traced the survival of certain au¬ 
thors in special localities and in his enumeration of extant 
manuscripts the significant fact appears that an unusual num¬ 
ber of them were copied in the twelfth and early thirteenth 
centuries. 1 The general use of classical writers at this time is 
shown by several contemporary documents which describe the 
curricula of the schools. The most noteworthy is the so-called 
.Dictionarius of John de Garland which is a work of the later 
twelfth and not of the thirteenth century. 2 The manuscript- 
gives an exposition of the subjects and authors which are studied 
in the schools, prescribing the parts of a work which ought or 
ought not to be read. 3 The great list of classical authors is 
certainly surprising but the work shows in addition that whole 
and not merely parts of them were used. The heptateuchon of 
Theodore 4 of Chartres is a similar document which treats par¬ 
ticularly of the curriculum of Chartres and it serves materially 
to confirm the general prevalence of classical studies. The will 
of John 5 6 of Salisbury likewise enumerates a partial list of the 
books which he left to the library at Chartres and it contains 
1 A History of Classical Scholarship from the Sixth Century, B. C. 
See also Teuffel and Schwabe, and Norden: Die AntiJce Kunstprosa. 
2 Through the kindness of Dr. L. J. Paetow of Wisconsin, who has 
possession of a copy of this manuscript, the writer is enabled to present 
these facts. 
3 Among the classical authors mentioned are Statius, Virgil, Juvenal, 
Horace, Ovid, Sallust, Cicero, Martial, Petronius, Symmachus, Suetonius, 
Livy and Seneca. 
4 Clerval, Les Ecoles de Chartres au Moyen Age, pp. 220-248. 
5 Migne, Intro, p. xii. 
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