Are the traces of Geneva marginal commentary and Sarum missal in FQI and
Amoretti noted anywhere in print?
Jameela Lares
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On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Anne Prescott wrote:
> One reason that I like pondering the Geneva version when reading Spenser,
> although of course he would know others as well--not least because the
> Geneva wasn't used in church, I gether--is that one can find traces of the
> marginal commentary in, say, *Amoretti*. What's more startling, though,
> are the traces of the Sarum Missal in TFQ Book I.xii and in Amoretti. Anne
> Prescott.
>
> On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Andrew Zurcher wrote:
>
> >
> > Dear Yngve Nordgaard,
> >
> > I've been waiting for one of our resident specialists to answer your
> > question, which they may have done privately for all I know. However, in
> > case not: you may want to try Carol Kaske's article on the Bible in The
> > Spenser Encyclopedia. It lists the Bibles in currency at the time and
> > suggests one or two probabilistic arguments for Spenser's preferences,
> > citing along the way some research on the subject. To your list you could
> > sensibly add, in English, the Rheims New Testament.
> >
> > You might want to worry about your question, though--Spenser may have
> > preferred, for all we know, a Latin or Greek version of the Bible, and even
> > polyglott editions were in Pembroke by 1560 (see Elisabeth Leedham-Green,
> > Books in Cambridge Inventories, p. 93). Popular Latin versions (here I'm
> > citing Kaske) included the Vulgate, the Erasmus parallel-text translation
> > of the New Testament, and the Junius-Tremellius-Beza Bible.
> >
> > andrew zurcher
> >
> >
> > >Spenser used conceits from the Song of Salomo. But which bible translation
> > >did he use? The Geneva Bible, the Great Bible or the Bishop's Bible?
> > >
> > >Yours sincerely,
> > >
> > >--
> > >Yngve Nordgaard, graduate student of comparative literature
> > >University of Oslo, Norway
> >
> >
>
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