Papias (lexicographer)
Papias (
Papias seems to have been a cleric with theological interests, possibly living in
Elementarium doctrinae
Papias set forth his principles in a preface to his dictionary and contributes new features to lexicography. He marks
Papias renders
The Elementarium anticipated some principles of derivational lexicography (disciplina derivationis), that is, a method that generates vocabulary through verbal analogy. The goal is not only to learn the main word in the entry, but to be able to derive other forms of the word. The method had been illustrated earlier by Priscian in his Partitiones duodecim versuum Aeneidos principalium.[15]
Sources and influences
Among the sources used by Papias in addition to Priscian were
Manuscripts and editions
The main study of the manuscript tradition is B. Zonta, "I codici GLPV dell' Elementarium Papiae: un primo sondaggio nella tradizione manoscritta ed alcune osservazioni relative," Studi Classici e orientali 9 (1960) 76–99. The extremely rare
References
- Nathaniel Bailey or Samuel Johnsonthe first modern lexicographer.
- ^ The title is less commonly given as Elementarium Doctrinae erudimentum.
- ^ Richard Sharpe, "Vocabulary, Word Formation, and Lexicography," in Medieval Latin: An Introduction and Bibliographical Guide (Catholic University of America Press, 1996), p. 96 online.
- ^ Sharpe, "Vocabulary, Word Formation, and Lexicography," p. 96.
- ^ Tony Hunt, Teaching and Learning Latin in Thirteenth-Century England (Boydell & Brewer, 1991), pp. 371–372; Jane Chance, Medieval Mythography: From Roman North Africa to the School of Chartres, A.D. 433–1177 (University of Florida Press, 1994), p. 61 online.
- ^ Hunt, Teaching and Learning, p. 371.
- ^ Henry Ansgar Kelly, Ideas and Forms of Tragedy from Aristotle to the Middle Ages (Cambridge University Press, 1993), p. 64.
- Albericus Trium Fontium, Chronica (ca. 1235).
- ^ Sharpe, "Vocabulary, Word Formation, and Lexicography," p. 96.
- John Edwin Sandys, A History of Classical Scholarship (Cambridge University Press, 1906, 2nd ed.), p. 521.
- ^ John Block Friedman, The Monstrous Races in Medieval Art and Thought (Syracuse University Press, 2000), p. 111.
- ^ Hunt, Teaching and Learning, p. 372.
- ^ Sandys, A History of Classical Scholarship, p. 521.
- ^ Hunt, Teaching and Learning, p. 372.
- ^ Suzanne Reynolds, Medieval Reading: Grammar, Rhetoric, and the Classical Text (Cambridge University Press, 1996), p. 79.
- ^ Friedman, The Monstrous Races, p. 239, note 17.
- ^ Hunt, Teaching and Learning, p. 295.
- ^ Chance, Medieval Mythography, p. 59.
- ^ Sandys, History of Classical Scholarship, p. 521; Sauer, Oxford History of English Lexicography, p. 30.
- ^ Hunt, Teaching and Learning, p. 372.
- ^ James D. Tracy, Erasmus: The Growth of a Mind (Geneva, 1972), pp. 23–24.
- ^ Hunt, Teaching and Learning, p. 372.
External links
- [1], list of manuscripts that are available online.
- [2], scanned incunabulum, Dominicus de Vespolate, Milan, 1476 (editio princeps).
- [3], scanned incunabulum, Andreas de Bonetis, Venice, 1485.
- [4], scanned incunabulum, Theodor de Regazonibus, Venice, 1491.
- [5], scanned incunabulum, Boninus, Venice, 1496.