Alexander of Villedieu

Alexander de Villa Dei (also: Alexander Gallus, * 1170 in Villedieu -les- Poêles, Normandy, † unknown) was a French author.

Life

Alexander studied in Paris and teaching in Dol -de -Bretagne later. He is before all things, as the author of a Latin didactic poem, the Doctrinale known that he had completed around the year 1200. The mediated written in leonine hexameters work (building on Donat and Priscian ) Basic knowledge of Latin grammar:

Besides the Doctrinale Alexander wrote numerous other writings, including the Ecclesiale (a kind of Christian counterpart to Ovid's Fasti ) and the Computus ecclesiasticus (which deals with the calculation of the religious feasts ).

Works

  • Doctrinale ( P. 3.4): With Commentum valde utile. Richard Paffraet, Deventer 1495 ( Digitized edition )
  • Medulla aurea de arte grammatica quattuor partium Alexandri de Mendis incuria ... vocabuloru [m ] verissima adaucta. Koelhoff, Colon 1501. Digitized edition of the University and State Library Dusseldorf
  • Doctrinale Alexandri: cum sententiis: notabilibus et vocabulorum lucida Expositione: nonnullis Annexis argumentis cum eorundem replicis. High Fedder, Metz approximately 1508th Digitized edition of the University and State Library Dusseldorf
  • GLOSA prime partis Alexādri Joanis Synthen. Richard Paffraet, Deventer 15.XII.1490. Digitized edition of the University and State Library Dusseldorf
  • GLOSA Joanis Sinthē super secunda parte Alexandri bene emendata. Jakob von Breda, Deventer 31.X.1489. Digitized edition of the University and State Library Dusseldorf
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