Abstract
The most significant Latin-Portuguese medieval grammatical treatise, due mainly to its complexity and the great number of folios, remains unpublished. It originates from the Cistercian Monastery of Alcobaça and belongs to the Portuguese National Library, codex Alc. 79. The manuscript presents the (unfinished) incipit Hic incipiunt notabilia que fecit cunctis and is commonly known by the Latin noun Notabilia [noteworthy things]. The Alcobacensis manuscript is a quite elaborate volume, copied perhaps by two hands and it is divided into 31 chapters. The text identifies several main sources, such as Donatus (mid-4th century), Priscian (late 5th to early 6th century), Alexander of Villa Dei (c.1170–c.1250), Giovanni Balbi de Genova (fl.1286–1298), and two pre-modist or speculative grammarians, Petrus Helias (c.1100–post-1166) and Robert Kilwardby (c.1215–1279), but it might have other unnamed references, such as, hypothetically, the Catalan-Aragonese grammaticae proverbiandi (fifteenth century) and the Italian Notabilia by Giovanni da Soncino (? –c.1363).
Acknowledgements
I would like to offer this paper to the memory of Prof. Amadeu Rodrigues Torres (1924–2012), in praise of the great Science Language Professor and of his outstanding personality, and for having stimulated me to research in the field of the History of Latin-Portuguese Linguistics and helping me to interpret numerous issues in the Notabilia’s paleography. I would also like to express my gratitude to Prof. Carlos Assunção (UTAD, Portugal), who, on behalf of the Center for the Studies in Letters (CEL), has funded this research, to Profs. Rolf Kemmler (UTAD, Portugal) and Mónica Augusto (independent scholar, Portugal) for their help in the transcription of the Notabilia, and Prof. Vicente Calvo Fernández (URJC, Spain) for his help in interpreting various abbreviations. Furthermore, I would like to thank two anonymous reviewers who provided helpful observations, which I have tried to accomodate in the last version of this paper.
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