Note 2 — Chapter VII · LATIN POETIC IN THE TWELFTH AND THIRTEENTH CENTURIES
Reading edition
In 1199; represents the new school of Paris as against the conservatives of Orléans; 2645 hexameters; in use at Troyes, 1436 (Carré (G.), L’enseignement secondaire à Troyes, Paris, 1888, pages 18, 19, 49).
First printed at Venice by Wendelin of Spires, 1470; more than 160 editions by 1500 (Allen (P.), The Age of Erasmus, page 41), though meantime attacked by Valla and Sulpitius Verulanus.
Ed. Reichling (D.) Berlin, 1893, with an introduction of 300 pages, including the researches of Thurot. See also Manacorda, index.
Generally speaking, the Doctrinale was current throughout Europe for three hundred years.
Fierville (Ch.) exhibits the interesting return to Priscian of a thirteenth-century grammarian evidently dissatisfied with the method of Alexander (Une grammaire inédite du xiiie siècle ... Paris, 1886).