Note 83 — Chapter V

The interior schools were known as claustral, and the exterior for secular students as canonical. Ekhehard, in his life of B. Notker, is the first who accurately distinguishes the two sorts of schools. “Traduntur post breve tempus Marcello scholæ claustri cum beato Notkero Balbulo et cæteris monachici habitus pueris: exteriores vero, id est canonicæ, Isoni cum Salomone et ejus comparibus.” It is probable however that the law directing a total separation of the scholars under different masters, could not in all cases be carried out as rigidly as at the great abbey of St. Gall’s, where the studium was, in Notker’s time, the first in Europe; and in many monasteries both schools continued to be directed by the same scholasticus.