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Dear Tom,
I am several hundred miles from my notes (alas, the wages of sin -- living in one city, working in another), but this is my recollection on studying the largest ms of Hildegard's works (the so-called Riesenkodex: Wiesbaden, Hessische Landesbibliothek 2). A very detailed description of all relevant mss with H's letters is to be found in the Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis edition.
Best wishes, George
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Dear George,
I have not had the chance to look at the Hildegard MSS. Are you referring
to a specific MS or MSS?
Many thanks,
Tom
At 08:51 AM 11/10/2003 +0000, you wrote:
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>Dear Tom,
>
>I have only looked at one collection that is similar in terms of
>importance and size (and gender of author): Hildegard of Bingen's letter
>collection follows the same structure.
>
>All good wishes,
>George
>***
>George Ferzoco
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>Subject: [M-R] Organization of medieval letter-collections
>
>I have a question about medieval letter-collections with which I hope
>someone can help me.
>
>Some early manuscripts of the letters of Catherine of Siena, completed at
>the end of the fourteenth century and beginning of the fifteenth century,
>organize her letters ad statum. Letters to ecclesiastics are presented
>separated from letters to seculars, and within each larger grouping the
>letters are presented according to a hierarchy of recipients: from Popes to
>nuns, and from kings to ordinary secular women. (I can give more details
>if anyone is interested.) This ordering principle was adopted for the
>first large edition of Catherine's letters, by Aldus in 1500, and remained
>the standard way of presenting Catherine's letters until the first attempts
>at a chronological edition in the mid-19th century.
>
>My question: can anyone give me examples of other medieval letter
>collections (of any kind) ordered in this way?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Tom Luongo
>
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