Excerptiones Prisciani

The Excerptiones Prisciani is a tenth-century compilation of Priscian's Institutiones grammaticae and Donatus's Ars maior.

History

It is found in three manuscripts: Antwerp, Plantin-Moretus Museum, MS 16.2 ; Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, nouv. acq. lat. 586; and Chartres, Bibliothèque municipale, 56. It is thought to have been compiled by the early medieval English monk and scholar Ælfric of Eynsham, and was the basis for the Latin grammar that he wrote in Old English. In compiling his text, Ælfric was working in a Carolingian scholarly tradition of adapting Classical works on grammar.