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Type: Early works to 1500. Description: WHS fragment is an incomplete bifolium, ff. 4.7 (Schwenke 17,9-31; 18,16-19,9; 28,35-29,5; 29,44-30,20) of a 33-line edition. Publisher: [Mainz : Johann Gutenberg and Johann Fust (Type of the 42-line Bible), ca. 1453-1454]. Subject: Latin language—Grammar—Early works to 1500.
Donatus, Aelius; Language: Latin; Call number: 113.5; Electronic Resource; Extent: 1 vellum bifolium : 27.7 x 22.7 cm (f. 11 measures 27.7 x 19 cm) Format: Book; Type: Early works to 1500; Specimens; Description: WHS fragment is ff. 2 (incomplete) and 11, of a 30-line edition. Publisher: [Mainz : Johann Gutenberg (Donatus and Kalendar type), ca ...
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This fragment is one of the earliest such Donatuses, printed in the earliest state of the Gutenberg Bible type, as used for setting the first, 40-line pages. It was recovered from the binding of a late 1470s book bound for one of the great monasteries of the Austrian Danube valley.
Works. He was the author of a number of professional works, of which several are extant: Ars maior – A commentary on Latin grammar. Ars minor – A commentary on parts of Latin Speech.
Aelius Donatus was a famous grammarian and teacher of rhetoric at Rome, one of whose pupils was Eusebius Hieronymus (later St. Jerome). Donatus wrote a large and a small school grammar, Ars maior and Ars minor. The latter was written for young students and gives, by question and answer, elementary.
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Apr 27, 2017 · Donatus was an erudite traditional pagan who describes pagan rites not only from books but personal experience. For a discussion of his life and career, see Kaster 1988 (pp. 275–278), with a detailed and critical judgment of all testimonies, and Schmidt 1989 (pp. 143–144) with a slightly different position concerning the date of the ...
25. Virgil was large in person and stature, with a swarthy complexion, a peasant's brow, and uneven health, for he commonly suffered from pain in his stomach, throat, and head; indeed, he often spat up blood. He was sparing of food and wine. With regard to pleasure, he was partial to boys.
