ANONYMI CHRISTIANI TRACTATUS DE FIGURIS SENTENTIARUM ET VERBORUM (NOTA MARGINALIS IN PARIS. 1741)†

摘要

Nota Marginalis is written in the form of commentary outside the main text of Alexander (5. Alexandri opusculum de figuris sententiarum atque elocutionis [106v]) in cod. Paris. 1741. The documentation of N.M. itself might have been made in the 13th century. The text consists of 47 epitomes, which are grouped according to word figure and sentence figure. The method of defining the figure is identical to that of Paris. 2087: the examples are Christian and identical to those of 2087. Thus, there is no doubt that N.M. belongs to the tradition of Paris. 2087. The sequence of epitomes, however, differs from that of 2087, because N.M. is recorded according to the sequence of Paris. 1741: the scribe of N.M. may have tried to address the lack of Christian examples in Paris. 1741. As for authorship, it is not easy to know who the author is, but on this question, I have found an interesting example from Basil of Caesarea (AD 330–379). Based on this, I would like to suggest that the author of N.M. might be a student of Basil, who was an excellent teacher of rhetoric. From this, it can be assumed that N.M. might have been composed in the 5th century.