Grammatica Petri Helie vtilissima, veri Prisciani imitatoris
By: cum magistri Johannis Sommerfelt breui quadam commentatione in eundem
Contributors: Sommerfeld, Jan, d. 1501; Priscian, fl. ca. 500-530; Flach, Martin, d. 1500, printer; Engelberg (Abbey); Otto Vollbehr Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Arte deni[que] & impensis prouidi viri Martini flach ciuis Argentinensis
Published: 1499
Place of publication: [Strasbourg, France]
Language: lat
Number of pages: 14
Subjects: Glossaries, vocabularies; Latin language; Parts of speech
Other titles: [S]icut ab esse rei soliti rem promere dicunt; Grammatica Petri Helie utilissima, veri Prisciani imitatoris
Notes: Imprint from colophon.  Ampersand in imprint statement represents a tironian sign.

Not by Petrus Helias.  This work contains the definitions and rules of Priscianus in verse, but has no connection to the work of Helias.  Cf. Charles Thurot.  Extraits de divers manuscrits latins pour servir à l'histoire de doctrines grammaticales au Moyen-Age.  Paris, 1869 (reprinted Frankfurt am Main, 1964), p. 21-22.  Polykarp Leyser  (Historia poetarum et poematum Medii Aevi , 1721, p. 2067-8) quotes the explicit of a 1406 manuscript that states the work covers 14 books of Priscian's Institutiones.

Signatures: A⁸ B⁶, a-z⁸ A-Z⁸ 2a-2e⁸ 2f¹⁰ (last leaf blank).

Includes index.

Capital space.  Commentary typographically distinguished from the verses.

LC copy has inscriptions: Gregorius Miltenberger, oriund[us] ex fagijs Nactus est librum istem Anno domini 1564.  Frum Capucinorum Montis Angelorum (1 inscription dated 1635, another 1637).  Marginal ms. annotation in multiple hands.  Leaf [16] in front has a long ms. passage, headed "Grammaticae inuentia".

Goff H-14

Hain-Copinger 8422*

GW M32277

BM 15th cent., I, p. 155 (IA. 2220)

Illustrated ISTC (CD-ROM, 2nd ed.) ih00014000