medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
Erik,
I had not looked at the text in multiple years ago, when I was
inventorying our medieval & Renaissance MSS. I recall not being
impressed, but that was why I did not claim it as an edition.
Tom Izbicki
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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and
culture
Sorry Tom, - to say it is 'discussed' is somewhat of an overstatement.
Victor Leroquais has chosen a single text and transformed it from
medieval french to make it comprehensible to modern readers.
His version is far from any 15th c. text I have seen, and he
does not mention the immense variety found in the composition of
the prayers (especially the petition attached to each of the joys).
He has made no attempt to date its first occurrence in any of the
manuscripts in the Bibliotheque Nationale.
His 'edition' of the text has been available on my own website since
1997*; Had it served its purpose would there be no need to prepare
another. Students of manuscripts feel helpless when they compare
their own readings with his heavily edited 'ideal' modern version.
Only to mention one problem: All have the spelling "[noces]
archedeclin"
No manuscript has 'noces archetriclin' as Leroquais pretend to read
it!
Students are too often discouraged by such non existing
incongruencies.
I would like to comfort them with a clear message: Common sense
has not been or never should be suspended in scholarship.
Best
Erik Drigsdahl
PS: *Cf. http://www.chd.dk/tutor/15joys.html
At 21:42 +0200 12/04/05, Thomas Izbicki wrote:
>This text is discussed in V. Leroquais, Les livres d'heures
manuscripts
>de la Bibliotheque Nationale... (Macon, 1943).
>Tom Izbicki
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