Old English libraries

by Ernest Albert Savage

[535] MS. Ff. i. 24; Paris, C.M. iv. 232; cf. v. 285.

[536] Sandys, i. 576.

[537] Now Canon. gr. 35 Bodleian; James, lxxxvi. This may be the Liber grecorum in the list of books repaired in 1508.—James, lxxxvi., 163.

[538] James¹⁶, 10.

[539] Op. Maj., 46.

[540] Op. Tertium, p. 55, 56.

[541] James (M. R.), lxxiv.

[542] Mun. Acad., 86, 430, 444; cf. Lyte, 235. Donatus came to be regarded as a synonymous term for grammar. In Piers Plowman a grammatical lesson or text-book is called “Donet.” A Greek grammar was called a “Donatus Graecorum.”

[543] Mun. Acad., 441.

[544] In the right-hand doorway of the west front of Chartres Cathedral are figures of the Seven Arts, Grammar being associated with Priscian, Logic with Aristotle, Rhetoric with Cicero, Music with Pythagoras, Arithmetic with Nicomachus, Geometry with Euclid, and Astronomy with Ptolemy. Cf. Marriage, Sculp. of Chartres Cath., 71-73 (1909).