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This is possibly a dead end, but you never know. De Bruyne was extremely
knowledgeable. It is mentioned in the introduction to the critical edition of
Greek 1 Maccabees:
Les anciennes traductions latines des Machabe/es par Dom Donatien de Bruyne avec
la collaboration de Dom Bonaventure Sodar, O. S. B., Abbaye de Maredsous 1932 (=
Anecdota Maredsolana 4).
Do let us know what, if anything, you find!
Bob
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> I too am curious about Maccabees because it contains a passage widely used in early medieval commemorative liturgy. I have ransacked my notes and am not turning up anything more specific than a note that Mayke de Jong has written on Hrabanus Maurus' commentary on Maccabees which he wrote for Empress Judith. If you google her and Hrabanus you get a list of her publications which contains a couple of articles that look promising. There's a good chance that she touches on manuscript transmission, although probably earlier than what you are looking for. Most everything else I have run across on Maccabees is more exegetical in focus and is not concerned about historical reception of the books, so I would be curious to hear about whatever you turn up.
>
> Best,
>
> Julian Hendrix
>
>
> On Mar 24 2006, Jim Bugslag wrote:
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> >> i just recently came across a reference to this (unpublished, i assume) ms.
> >> which was said to be a latin versification of Maccabees, the prologue of which
> >> stated that it was written at the request of a very important 12th c. bishop.
> >> looking at my source again i see that it says "of Kings and of Maccabees".
> >
> >Christopher,
> >This combination of Kings and Maccabees is ringing a vague bell, but I can't quite
> >put my finger on it. According to Henry Mayr-Harting, Ottonian Book Illumination,
> >vol. 1 p. 38, in the 10th century, the resistance of the Maccabees to the Seleucids
> >was seen as a biblical type of the resistance of contemporaries to the Hungarians.
> >He cites Jean Dunbabin, "The Maccabees as exemplars in the tenth and eleventh
> >centuries," in _The Bible in the Medieval World: Essays in Memory of Beryl
> >Smalley_, ed. Katherine French and Diana Wood (Oxford, 1985), pp. 60-67, which
> >might, perhaps, steer you towards the right track.
> >Cheers,
> >Jim Bugslag
> >
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