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Latin: Didactic & Technical

Rome’s instructional literature: Ovid’s playful Ars Amatoria, Virgil’s Georgics, and the agricultural manuals of Cato, Varro and Columella. Every text below is a complete parsing reader: click any word for its lemma, morphology, and full entry from Lewis & Short.

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Praefatio Commentarii in Cyclum VictoriiAbbo of Fleury
Carmina (Fragments)Accius
De MusicaAdalbold of Utrecht
Statistica EuropaeAdam Adalbert Barits
FragmentsAemilius Macer
De Controversiis AgrorumAgennius Urbicus
Liber ParabolarumAlan of Lille
De Cursu et Saltu Lunae ac BissextoAlcuin
Propositiones ad Acuendos IuvenesAlcuin
Suppletio DefectuumAlexander Neckam
De AmoreAndreas Capellanus
Liber de VirtutibusAngela Nogarola
SylvaeAngelo Poliziano
Commemoratio Brevis de Tonis et Psalmis ModulandisAnonymous
ComputatioAnonymous
Computus PaschalisAnonymous
De Arte IlluminandiAnonymous
De ComputoAnonymous
De Computo PaschaliAnonymous
De Musica IAnonymous
De Musica IIAnonymous
De Rebus BellicisAnonymous
De Septem ArtibusAnonymous
De SepulchrisAnonymous
Fragmentum MusicesAnonymous
Liber de Natura FalconumAnonymous
Mensura Monochordi BoetiiAnonymous
Monochordum EnchiriadisAnonymous
Musica EnchiriadisAnonymous
Scholia EnchiriadisAnonymous
Versus de LapidibusAnonymous
Versus de ScachisAnonymous
Carminum FragmentaAntonio Telesio
Brevis PimentorumApicius
De Re CoquinariaApicius
AetnaAppendix Vergiliana
MoretumAppendix Vergiliana
FragmentsAppius Claudius Caecus
De MusicaAribo
De MusicaAugustine, Saint
Epistola ad BernardumAurelian of Réôme
Septem Sapientum SententiaeAusonius, Decimus Magnus
ArateaAvienus
Expositio et Ratio Omnium FormarumBalbus
De Ordine Docendi ac StudendiBattista Guarino
Prohemium in Librum de NavigationeBenedetto Cotrugli
De Cantu seu Correctione AntiphonariiBernard of Clairvaux, Saint
TonaleBernard of Clairvaux, Saint (attributed)
Tractatus Cantandi GradualeBernard of Clairvaux, Saint (attributed)
Cita et Vera Divisio Monochordi in DiatonicoBernelinus
De Consona Tonorum DiversitateBerno of Reichenau
MusicaBerno of Reichenau
De Institutione ArithmeticaBoethius
De Institutione MusicaBoethius
Vita ScolasticaBonvesin da la Riva
Navis Aeria et Elegiarum MonobiblosBrno Zamanja
De Agri CulturaCato the Elder
De Die NataliCensorinus
De Architectura PrivataCetius Faventinus
KalendariumChronographer of 354
Aratea (Fragments)Cicero, Marcus Tullius
De ArboribusColumella, Lucius Junius Moderatus
De Cultu HortorumColumella, Lucius Junius Moderatus
Res RusticaColumella, Lucius Junius Moderatus
Cato Minor, sive Disticha MoraliaDiogo Pires
Liber de PaschateDionysius Exiguus
FragmentDorcatius
De Rerum Natura (Fragments)Egnatius
Paraenesis DidascalicaEnnodius
De Agrorum QualitateFrontinus
De AquaeductuFrontinus
De Arte MensoriaFrontinus
De ControversiisFrontinus
De LimitibusFrontinus
StrategemataFrontinus
Versus de Uncia et PartibusFulbert of Chartres
De Hortis (Fragments)Gargilius Martialis
Liber MedicaminisGerard the Falconer
De Divisione NumerorumGerbert of Aurillac
ArateaGermanicus
Aratea (Fragments)Germanicus
Ars MemoriaeGiordano Bruno
Ars Reminiscendi, Triginta Sigilli, Sigillus SigillorumGiordano Bruno
Cantus CircaeusGiordano Bruno
CanesGiovanni Darcio
De Hortis Hesperidum (Book I)Giovanni Gioviano Pontano
De Hortis Hesperidum (Book II)Giovanni Gioviano Pontano
AlconGirolamo Fracastoro
CynegeticaGrattius
Epistola ad Michaelem de Ignoto CantuGuido of Arezzo
Micrologus de Disciplina Artis MusicaeGuido of Arezzo
Prologus in AntiphonariumGuido of Arezzo
Quomodo de Arithmetica Procedit MusicaGuido of Arezzo
Regulae RhythmicaeGuido of Arezzo
Tractatus Correctorius Multorum Errorum in Cantu GregorianoGuido of Arezzo
Liber de ComputoHelperic of Auxerre
De Coloribus et Artibus RomanorumHeraclius
Epistola ad Hugonem MonachumHeriger of Lobbes
MusicaHermann of Reichenau
Ars PoeticaHorace
De Harmonica InstitutioneHucbald of Saint-Amand
De Bestiis et Aliis RebusHugh of Fouilloy (attributed)
Speculum Imaginum Veritatis OccultaeJacob Masen
De MusicaJohn Cotton
Carmina de ComputoManfred
Ratio EmbolismorumManfred
AstronomicaManilius
De GemmisMarbod of Rennes
Institutionum Principalium Liber PrimusMichele Marullo
CynegeticaNemesianus
De Aucupio (Fragments)Nemesianus
Descriptio Physico-Politicae Situationis Regni HungariaeNikola Škrlec
Status Actualis Oeconomiae PublicaeNikola Škrlec
De MusicaNotker the Stammerer
Mensura Quadripartitae FiguraeOtker of Regensburg
Ars AmatoriaOvid
HalieuticaOvid
GeorgicsP. Vergilius Maro (Virgil)
De InsitionePalladius
Distichorum Liber (to Vittore Martinengo)Panfilo Sasso
Monita ad AstralabiumPeter Abelard
CarmenPietro da Parma
Kalendarium AntiquumPolemius Silvius
FragmentsPorcius Licinus
Commentum de Agrorum QualitatePseudo-Agennius Urbicus
Commentum de ControversiisPseudo-Agennius Urbicus
Liber de AssePseudo-Balbus
Canones Lunarium Decemnovennalium CirculorumPseudo-Bede
De Argumentis LunaePseudo-Bede
De Arithmeticis NumerisPseudo-Bede
De Arithmeticis PropositionibusPseudo-Bede
De ComputoPseudo-Bede
De Cyclo PaschaliPseudo-Bede
De Divinatione Mortis et VitaePseudo-Bede
De Divisionibus TemporumPseudo-Bede
De EmbolismoPseudo-Bede
De Loquela per Gestum DigitorumPseudo-Bede
De Mensura HorologiiPseudo-Bede
De Ratione CalculiPseudo-Bede
De Ratione ComputiPseudo-Bede
De Ratione UnciarumPseudo-Bede
Dionysius de AnnisPseudo-Bede
EphemerisPseudo-Bede
Liber ProverbiorumPseudo-Bede
Musica Quadrata seu MensurataPseudo-Bede
Musica TheoricaPseudo-Bede
Prognostica TemporumPseudo-Bede
Ars Geometriae et ArithmeticaePseudo-Boethius
De Disciplina ScholariumPseudo-Boethius
GeometriaPseudo-Boethius
Disticha (Appendix)Pseudo-Cato
Disticha CatonisPseudo-Cato
Versus ex ColumbanoPseudo-Cato
De Munitionibus CastrorumPseudo-Hyginus
Opuscula de MusicaPseudo-Odo of Cluny
SententiaePseudo-Seneca
SententiaePublilius Syrus
Sententiae (Appendix)Publilius Syrus
Sententiae BalbiPublilius Syrus
De Ratione Paschae et MensisQuintus Julius Hilarianus
FragmentsQuintus Tullius Cicero
De Harmonica InstitutioneRegino of Prüm
De MusicaRemigius of Auxerre
PhilobiblonRichard de Bury
Secretum SecretorumRoger Bacon
De Solis ac Lunae DefectibusRuđer Bošković
De Condicionibus AgrorumSiculus Flaccus
Epistula ad Isidorum de EclipsibusSisebut
Hymnus de Ratione TemporumSisebut
FragmentsSueius
Res RusticaeVarro
Epitoma Rei MilitarisVegetius
ExcerptaVinidarius
On ArchitectureVitruvius Pollio
HortulusWalafrid Strabo
De Nominibus Duodecim MensiumWandalbert of Prüm
HorologiumWandalbert of Prüm
MusicaWilliam of Hirsau
De Arte et Scientia GeomantiaeWilliam of Moerbeke
Liber Guillelmi FalconariiWilliam the Falconer
ProverbiaWipo of Burgundy

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