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Quaestiones supra Prisciano minori

Author

Gentilis de Cingulo

Typology

Commentum per modum quaestionis

Date

1290 - 1320

  • Venezia, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Cod. lat. 488
  • Quaestio utrum grammatica sit scientia
  • Quaestio utrum grammatica sit scientia sermocinalis
  • Quaestio utrum nomen possit esse primae personae
  • Quaestio utrum discretio sit possibilis
  • Quaestio utrum verbum debeat praecedere nomen
  • Quaestio utrum proprium sit verbi agere et pati
  • Quaestio utrum in verbo personali intelligatur nominativus
  • Quaestio utrum relativum cum antecedente confirmatur intransitivum
  • Quaestio utrum eadem sint principia congruitatis et perfectionis
  • Quaestio utrum omnis modus significandi accipiatur a proprietatibus rerum
  • Quaestio utrum oratio sit subiectum in Prisciano Minori
  • Quaestio utrum haec sit congrua: 'Petrus est fortissimus hominum vel Graecorum'
  • Quaestio utrum haec sit congrua: 'Sortes est fortissimus asinorum'
  • Quaestio utrum constructio sit possibilis
    • There are no precise references for dating the work (Martorelli Vico 1985: xix). We therefore limit ourselves to reporting the period of activity of Gentilis de Cingulo (1290-1320). Pinborg supposes that the questions were written at the beginning of this period, around 1290 (Pinborg 1967: 310).
    • The work is not a literal commentary but a commentary per modum quaestionis on books XVII and XVIII of Priscian’s Institutiones grammaticae.
    • As reported by Martorelli Vico, the text presents a notable gap at the end of the second quaestio (Utrum grammatica sit scientia sermocinalis): “mancano la risposta al quarto ed ultimo argomento nonché tutti gli argomenti e parte della solutio della nuova quaestio” (Martorelli Vico 1985: xxiii).
    • In addition, the text is presumably incomplete, with the fourteenth question (Utrum haec sit congrua: ‘Sortes est fortissimus asinorum’) stopping at the beginning of the solutio (Martorelli Vico 1985: xxiii).
  • Grammar

    • Studies

    • Glorieux P., La faculté des artes et ses maîtres au XIIIe siècle, Paris 1971
    • Pinborg J., Die Entwicklung der Sprachtheorie im Mittelalter, Copenhagen 1967
    • Roos H., Die Modi significandi des Martinus de Dacia Forschungen zur Geschichte, Münster-Westf-Kopenhagen, 1952

    Editions

    • Martorelli Vico R. (ed.), Quaestiones supra Prisciano minori, Pisa 1985

    Queritur utrum grammatica sit scientia et arguitur quia omnis scientia […]

    Matteo Stettler