The Date of Composition of Bede’s De schematibus et tropis and De arte metrica.

Carmela Vircillo Franklin.

Among the works which Bede composed specifically as aids to the interpretation of Scripture is the Liber de schematibus et tropis, a small book on the figures of speech with which the Scriptures are adorned. He appended this short treatise to the De arte metrica, a handbook of quantitative and rhythmical poetry, dedicating them both to his pupil Cuthbert. An earlier view assigned these grammatical works to the beginnings of Bede’s career as a scholar and teacher, justifying to a large degree their reputation as immature and derivative school books, unworthy of comparison with Bede’s historical and exegetical works. Bede’s only other grammatical composition, the De orthographia, suffered from a similar reputation. It also was considered insignificant and relegated to Bede’s juvenilia, until Carlotta Dionisotti illustrated its sophistication, and pointed out the internal evidence that suggested its dating to post-709.

Carmela Vircillo Franklin. The Date of Composition of Bede’s De schematibus et tropis and De arte metrica. Revue Bénédictine, Volume 110, Issue 3-4, pp. 199-203. 2000.

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