Johannes de Garlandia (philologist)

This article is about the grammarian. For the musicologist, see Johannes de Garlandia (music theorist).

Johannes de Garlandia or John of Garland was a philologist and university teacher. His dates of birth and death are unknown, but he probably lived from about 1190 to about 1270. Of English origin, he studied at Oxford and then at the medieval University of Paris, where he was teaching by 1220; he lived and taught on the Left Bank at the Clos de Garlande (whose name survived till recently in the Rue Galande); this is the origin of the name by which he is usually known. The main facts of his life are stated in his long poem De triumphis ecclesiae ("On the triumphs of the Church").

In 1229, he was one of the first Masters of the new University of Toulouse. His poem Epithalamium Beatae Mariae Virginis was presented in 1230 to the Papal legate Romanus de Sancto Angelo, one of the founders of the university. He was in Toulouse during the turbulent events of 1229–1231 (see Albigensian Crusade), which he describes in De Triumphis. After the death of bishop Foulques of Toulouse in 1231, the Cathars regained influence at Toulouse, university teachers ceased to be paid, and many considered it too dangerous to remain in the city. Johannes de Garlandia was one of those who escaped, disguising himself as a serf or slave.

He returned to Paris, where Roger Bacon heard him lecture. He was still there in 1245, writing his poem De triumphis ecclesiae; he finished it in 1252. He was probably still alive in 1270.

Garland's grammatical works were much used in England, and were often printed by Richard Pynson and Wynkyn de Worde. He was also a voluminous Latin poet. The best known of his poems beside the De Triumphis Ecclesiae is Epithalamium beatae Mariae Virginis, contained in the same manuscript. Among his other works are his Dictionarius, a Latin vocabulary; Compendium totius grammatices printed at Deventer in 1489; and two metrical treatises, entitled Synonyma and Equivoca, frequently printed at the close of the 15th century.

A treatise on alchemy, Compendium alchimiae, often printed under his name, was by a 14th-century writer named Ortolanus (Martin Ortolan, or Lortholain). The 11th century writings on computus by Garlandus have occasionally been attributed to Johannes de Garlandia.

Works

Lost works

References

Wikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article Garland, John.

    Editions

    • F. Ghisalberti, ed., Integumenta Ovidii. Messina, Milan, 1933.
    • Thomas Haye, ed. Johannes de Garlandia. Compendium Grammaticae. Cologne: Böhlau, 1995.
    • Ewald Könsgen, ed. and trans. Johannes de Garlandia. Carmen de misteriis Ecclesie. With commentary by Peter Dinter. Mittellateinische Studien und Texte 32. Leiden: Brill, 2004.
    • Traugott Lawler, ed. and trans. The Parisiana Poetria of John of Garland. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1974.
    • Elsa Marguin-Hamon, ed. and trans. L’Ars lectoria Ecclesie de Jean de Garlande. Une grammaire versifiée du xiiie siècle et ses gloses. Turnhout, Brepols, 2003 (Studia Artistarum : Subsidia, 2)
    • Elsa Marguin-Hamon, ed. and trans. La 'Clavis Compendii' de Jean de Garlande. Turnhout: Brepols, 2009.
    • L.J. Paetow, ed. Two Medieval Satires on the University of Paris: La Bataille des VII Ars of Henri d'Andeli and the Morale Scolarium of John of Garland. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1927. [Latin and English, with biobibliography]
    • Antonio Saiani, ed. and trans. Giovanni di Garlandia. Epithalamium beate virginis Marie. Testo critico, traduzione e commento. Florence: L.S. Olschki, 1995.
    • Auguste Scheler, Lexicographie latine du XIIe et du XIIIe siècles: trois traités de Jean de Garlande, Alexandre Neckam et Adam du Petit-Pont (Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus 1867)
    • Wright, Thomas, editor (1856). Johannis de Garlandia De triumphis ecclesiae. London: Nichols. 
    • E.F. Wilson, ed. The Stella Maris of John of Garland. Edited together with a Study of Certain Collections of Mary Legends made in Northern France in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries. The Medieval Academy of America, Cambridge, MA, 1946

    Additional reading

    • Histoire littéraire de la France, vols. viii., xxi., xxiii. and xxx.;
    • G. Brunet, Manuel du libraire.
    • J. A. Fabricius, Bibliotheca Latina mediae et infimae aetatis vol. iii. (1754)
    • A. Grondeux, E. Marguin, 'L'œuvre grammaticale de Jean de Garlande (ca 1195–1272 ?), auteur, réviseur et glosateur: un bilan' in Histoire Epistémologie Langage vol. 21 (1999) pp. 133–163.
    • Tony Hunt, ‘Les gloses en langue vulgaire dans les mss. de l’Unum Omnium de Jean de Garlande’ in Revue de linguistique romane vol. 43 (1979) pp. 162–78.
    •  C. L. Kingsford (1889). "Garland, John". In Stephen, Leslie. Dictionary of National Biography 20. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 436–9.  – "giving a list also of the works on alchemy, mathematics and music, rightly or wrongly ascribed to him." (Enc. Britt. 1911)
    • P. Meyer, La Chanson de la croisade contre les Albigeois, vol. ii. pp. xxi–xxiii. (Paris, 1875–1879)
    • F. J. E. Raby, A History of Christian-Latin Poetry (1927) p. 386 ff.
    • A.G. Rigg, A History of Anglo-Latin Literature 1066–1422 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), 163–176.
    • John Edwin Sandys, A History of Classical Scholarship i. (1906) 549.
    • E. F. Wilson, "The Georgica Spiritualia of John of Garland" in Speculum vol. 8 (1933) p. 358 ff.
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