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Heidi Graw wrote:
> >"mb" <azythos2@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> >news:1156963590.531581.154580@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> >> Peter T. Daniels wrote:
> > ...
> >> I have yet to find an electronic university library catalog that isn't
> >> fully searchable from any computer on earth with web access.
> >>
> >> I just read his entry in the Britannica. (Did you?) Try looking for
> >> Rabanus Maurus. What you're looking for might be a chapter in his De
> >> arte grammatica.
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> > mb wrote:
> > No, the exact ref is available (other post)
>
> This is turning into quite the sleuthing game. <chuckle>
No, it is not. If you had bothered to read the Encyclopaedia
Britannica's entry on him, you would know exactly when his collected
(albeit unsatisfactorily edited) works were published; and you _give_
the references directly below your extensive but pointless quote from
Rydberg!
> I have a copy of a documented published in 1938 written by Carl Selmer who
> also references Maurus in a footnote:
> "Hrabanus Maurus' treatise "De inventione linguarum (Migne, PL, CXII, 1579).
That's the reference.
> Another document dated 1973 written by Fred C. Robinson also makes a
> reference to Maurus...however, with an interesting twist: St. Boniface may
> have been the author! The footnote claims PL. CXII, cols. 1581-82.
That's the reference.
> Levison, p. 291, inclines to accept Hrabanus' authorship, adding that in any
> case, the treatise appears to be connected with the Fulda circle of the
> ninth century."
>
> It is unclear to me whether or not Selmer and Robinson actually read "De
> inventione linguarum."...they may have just quoted from another source which
> quoted from something even more previous. Rydberg, however, appears to
> have actually read the document. And this is what I'm looking for...a copy
> of that document...the whole thing!
You _have_ the reference.
> I would think from a linguistic point of view this may even be of interest
> to sci.lang members. What I also find interesting is that any of the books
> I have about runes do *not* make a reference to Maurus! Hmmm....
>
> Ah well... It'll be interesting to see if this document is actually
> available to scholars and other interested people.
Every academic library I've ever been in has a complete set of Migne
taking up a great deal of space in a dusty corner. It remains the only
place where quite a few useless Greek and Latin authors like Rabanus
(again, see the Britannica -- he made no original contributions, but
was an encyclopedist) have ever been published. Migne undertook the
project strictly as a money-making venture; see the small book called
*God's Plagiarist* (I don't remember the author) published by Chicago
about 20 years ago. Unfortunately it doesn't include a list of the
contents of the several hundred volumes he produced and sold by
subscription to parish priests all over France (and perhaps elsewhere
in the world as well).
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