The Seligenstädter Lateinpädagogik

Southern Germany, end of the fifteenth century
Humanist handwriting

Universitetsbibliothek, Uppsala (Sweden)
Ms. C678

Date of Publication of the Facsimile: 1989
Publisher: Kungl. Vitterhets Historie och Antikvets Akademien, Sweden
Printer: Almqvist & Wiksell Tryckeri AB, Uppsala Sweden)

The original manuscript contains an elementary Latin grammar, written by a German Humanist for the education of a young nobleman. There are numerous German glosses -- that is, explanatory notes -- throughout the text. The reproduced folios on display show diagrams of the hand, which was frequently used as a convenient mnemonic device during the Middle Ages -- in this case to help the student memorize his Latin declensions.

fol. 39v (80K)

fol. 40r (80K)

fol. 61v (88K)

fol. 62r (98K)

Vergilius Vaticanus

Liber Iesus