Rudimenta linguae umbricae et rudimenta linguae oscae
Ex inscriptionibus antiquis enodata

Published in 1835–9, these analyses of the Umbrian and Oscan languages attempt to reconstruct their grammar from epigraphic evidence.

Georg Friedrich Grotefend (Author)

9781108077323, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 5 March 2015

326 pages, 2 b/w illus.
25.4 x 17.8 x 1.7 cm, 0.57 kg

The philologist Georg Friedrich Grotefend (1775–1853) combined his career as a senior master at schools in Frankfurt and Hannover with the publication of school textbooks on German and Latin, and academic research in ancient history and languages. He was a co-founder of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica series of historical sources, still widely consulted today, and is also remembered for his role in deciphering Old Persian cuneiform. During his lifetime he was best known for his study of the geography and history of pre-Roman Italy (published 1840–2 and also reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection) and his analyses of the fragmentary evidence for the Umbrian and Oscan languages, published in Latin in 1835–9 and now reissued in this volume. Inscriptions from buildings, tablets, coins and vessels allow Grotefend to reconstruct significant portions of the grammars of these early languages belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European family.

Part I. Rudimenta linguae umbricae: 1. Fundamenta totius operis continens
2. Ex iguvinis tabulis quartam cum sexta septimaque comparans
3. Inscriptiones umbricas summatim explicans
4. Iguvinarum tabularum preces interpretans
5. Quartam iguvinam tabulam exponens
6. Iguvinarum tabularum sextam septimamque illustrans
7. Iguvinas tabulas nondum explicatas complectens
8. Res tractatas summatim repetens
Part II. Rudimenta linguae oscae: 1. Oscum Bantinae tabulae fragmentum
2. Capuae Messanaeque inscriptiones
3. Herculanenses et Pompejanae inscriptiones
4. Nummi Samnitici cum vasis Nolanis
5. Saxum Abellanum ad fines agri inter Abellam Nolamque regendos
6. Alphabeta Osca
7. Osci sermonis indoles
Appendix
Tabulas.

Subject Areas: Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1]