Alexander, de Villa Dei, 1175-1240 (French author, teacher, poet and Latin scholar)
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1175~-[1240,1250]- - 1240
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
'Algorismus' by Alexander of Villedieu, also known as Carmen de Algorismo
part
Identifier: MS 215/ff. 1r-6r
Contents
This section of the manuscript contains Carmen de Algorismo by Alexander of Villedieu (born c. 1175, also known Alexander de Villa Dei), a French Franciscan author, teacher, and poet, who wrote textbooks in verse, including Doctrinale Puerorum, for which he achieved some fame. The Carmen de Algorismo is a short treatise in verse on arithmetic. This version has extensive commentaries on the text...
Dates:
15th century
Doctrinale, by Alexander of Villedieu, c 1455
Part
Identifier: MS 138/ff. 3r-29v
Contents
The text Doctrinale by Alexander of Villedieu appears on ff. 3r-29v in MS 138. This text was originally composed by Alexander, a French poet and teacher, around 1200 and came to be a classic on Latin grammar in medieval Europe.The text as it appears here in MS 138 begins on f.3r with the words Scribere clericulis parvo doctrinale novellis, and ends on f. 29v with Plurali numero similes...
Dates:
c 1455
MS 8: Biblia sacra [Bible. Latin. Vulgate], c 1260
Item
Identifier: MS 8
Scope and Contents
The manuscript contains the complete text of the Vulgate. The order of books of the Old Testament is unusual: chapter 15 of Leviticus is found at the end of the book of Esther with an explanatory
rubric; Lamentations and Baruch precede Jeremiah instead of coming after it; the Letter of Jeremiah,...
Dates:
c 1260