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Book/Printed Material Dialogue on Dialectics. Dialogus de dialectica

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Title

  • Dialogue on Dialectics.

Other Title

  • Dialogus de dialectica

Summary

  • This codex, which was created at Tegernsee Abbey under the direction of Froumund (circa 960-1008), is the work of several scribes. Besides Froumund, who copied a part of the text and entered several glosses, at least six other scribes were involved. The textbook Dialogus de dialectica (Dialogue on dialectics) deals with dialectics, one of the three artes liberales (liberal arts) of the medieval Trivium, which consisted of grammar, rhetoric, and dialectics, or logic. It was written by Alcuin (735-804), the great English scholar, theologian, and head of the palace school of Charlemagne who was an important figure of the Carolingian Renaissance. The work is a didactic tractate in the form of a dialogue between Alcuin and his disciple Charlemagne. The manuscript is modestly decorated. The pen-and-ink drawings on folios 1a verso and 19 verso in two different hands are important for their iconography: the first depicts Alcuin writing and Charlemagne sitting enthroned, holding a scroll and a scepter; the second drawing shows Alcuin and Charlemagne engrossed in conversation. The drawings are considered to be among the earliest portrayals of Alcuin and Charlemagne. The manuscript came from Tegernsee to Munich in 1803.

Names

  • Alcuin, 735-804 Author.
  • Froumund, of Tegernsee Scribe.

Created / Published

  • [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [975 to 999]

Headings

  • -  Germany--Bavaria--Tegernsee
  • -  735 to 804
  • -  Alcuin, 735-804
  • -  Charlemagne, Emperor, 742-814
  • -  Codex
  • -  Dialectic
  • -  Dialogues, Latin
  • -  Illuminations
  • -  Logic

Notes

  • -  Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
  • -  "BSB shelfmark: Clm 19437|This description of the work was written by Béatrice Hernad of the Bavarian State Library."--Note extracted from World Digital Library.
  • -  Original resource extent: 46 folios : parchment ; 19 x 12.5 centimeters.
  • -  Original resource at: Bavarian State Library.
  • -  Content in Latin.
  • -  Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.

Medium

  • 1 online resource.

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021668101

Online Format

  • compressed data
  • pdf
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Alcuin, 735-804 Author, and Of Tegernsee Scribe Froumund. Dialogue on Dialectics. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, 975 to 999, 0975] Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021668101/.

APA citation style:

Alcuin, 7. A. & Froumund, O. T. S. (0975) Dialogue on Dialectics. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, 975 to 999] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021668101/.

MLA citation style:

Alcuin, 735-804 Author, and Of Tegernsee Scribe Froumund. Dialogue on Dialectics. [Place of Publication Not Identified: Publisher Not Identified, 975 to 999, 0975] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021668101/>.