It may be important to remember that, as we say now in a tone of suspicion,
Bale had an "agenda." I assume that he wasn't lying about the translation,
such as it is, being by Elizabeth herself (who was by now 14), although the
differences between the text of the Godly Meditation that he provides and the
orignal manuscript, which of course still exists, are mysterious. I have no
idea how he got or was given a copy or who else was in on this enterprise or
why the marginal annotations (mostly references to the Bible) are different.
For what Bale was up to see, if I may toot my own horn for a moment, my essay
on E's translation of Marg. of N. in *Silent but for the Word* edited by, need
I mention, Margaret Hannay. There's now an Ashgate facsimile edition of the
Bale. Anne Prescott.
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>Marianne, John Bale appended Elizabeth's translation of the psalm to the her
>translation of Margueriet of Navarre' Godly Meditation. Here's the complete
>reference:
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>Marguerite of Navarre, A Godly Medytacyon of the christen sowle, concerning a
>luve yowardes God and hys Christe ([Wesel: van der Straten,] 1548; STC
17320),
>sigs. F7v-F8r.
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>I can't say whether an original manuscript of the psalm in Elizabeth's
>translation survives. Stephen May would probably know.
>
>Donald Stump
>
>Marianne F Micros wrote:
>
>> Hi, everyone. I want to pick your brains about something. I'm teaching
>> an Elizabethan course and have included writings by Elizabeth -- some
>> taken from the Longman anthology. In that anthology is her translation of
>> Psalm 13 (actually known to us as 14). I think she probably translated it
>> from the Latin Vulgate. However, there is absolutely no information about
>> it in the Longman's. Does anyone know when she did the translation, or
>> anything else about it? Where was this found -- in a particular
>> manuscript? I am going to complain to the publisher about the lack of
>> information. But I did think this was worth teaching. Very interesting.
>> Thanks, Marianne Micros
anne prescott
english, barnard college
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