%0 Journal Article
%T A Mediaeval Teaching Aid. An Analysis of One Page from the Manuscript by Jakub of Piotrków
%A Masłej, Dorota
%J Terminus
%V Special Issues
%R 10.4467/20843844TE.19.006.11114
%N Special Issue 2 (2019)
%P 147-167
%K macrostructure of a page, layout of prayers and commentaries, creative process, lecture in the Middle Ages, mnemonics, mediaeval teaching, Jakub of Piotrków, basic prayers and commentaries
%@ 2082-0984
%D 2019
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/terminus/article/a-mediaeval-teaching-aid-an-analysis-of-one-page-from-the-manuscript-by-jakub-of-piotrkow
%X 
	
		The purpose of this paper is to characterise page 190v of the manuscript preserved in the Jagiellonian Library (shelfmark 1297). The foregoing research has considered the page as a separate item, while the present study poses new questions concerning the writer’s intention, the function of the page, and its possible status.
	
		The main part of the paper is an attempt to reconstruct the sequence of writing the elements of the layout, or page composition, paying special attention to the relations between them. Reconstructing the probable sequence of writing the texts on the analysed page allows the proposal of a hypothesis of how the author (known as Jakub of Piotrków, the Canon of Płock) worked on it. The analysis shows that the author’s intention could have changed as subsequent elements were being written on the page.
	
		Certain elements of the page were selected for use depending on the audience of the lecture and its purpose. The latest research that linguistic relics like this one, closely bound up with orality of the mediaeval language, are not (were not) complete works in their final shapes, but rather texts in statu nascendi. The text discussed is an example of a genuine teaching aid that served the writer, Jakub of Piotrków, and probably later clergymen in ministering.
	
		* Polish text: D. Masłej, “Średniowieczna pomoc dydaktyczna. Studium jednej karty z rękopisu Jakuba z Piotrkowa,” Terminus 2/17 (2015), pp. 219–240.
	
		 


	
		Publication of this paper was financed by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Poland under the grant 643/P-DUN/2018.