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Also complicated by the fact that what is usually printed with the Vulgate as
the Psalms is not Jerome's 'Vulgate' at all but an old Latin version. A very
good critical edition is needed when working in the Latin Psalms.
Unfortunately, mine is currently misplaced--the two volume work in green.
published by Brill, I think.
--V. K. Inman
Quoting "Ferzoco, G.P." <[log in to unmask]>:
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> Dear Juris,
>
> I'm not near such a reference now, but whenever I have encountered similar
> incongruities I have very often found that the old, non-Vulgate versions of
> the Bible -- and their glosses -- provide answers. Check for a *Vetus itala*
> near you, and explore!
>
> It may also be useful for you to check later medieval glosses for echoes the
> 'id est ad manus' phrase in your first citation; it smacks of 'glossalalia'
> [= scanno? clobberist? :-) ] to me.
>
> Best wishes, George Ferzoco
>
> ________________________________
>
>
> In Book VI cap. xvii of _De proprietatibus rerum_, Bartholomaeus Anglicus
> (=BA) evidently has this quotation:
>
> Psal.: sicut oculi ancille in manibus, id est ad manus, domine
> sue, ita, etc.
>
> Curiously, Ps. 122.2 iuxta LXX opens
>
> ecce sicut oculi servorum in manibus dominorum suorum
> sicut oculi ancillae in manibus dominae eius
> ita...
>
> while Ps. 122.2 iuxta Hebr. opens thus:
>
> ecce sicut oculi servorum ad manum dominorum suorum
> sicut oculi ancillae ad manum dominae suae
> sic...
>
> Not being up on my early-13th-century Biblical studies, I'm wondering if
> BA--who wrote c. 1230-1245?--would have known both or would have had a
> Vulgate before him which has both (as my Fischer et al. has, though this
> is en regarde)?
>
> If so, I would expect "vel" where BA has "id est," a simple confusion of
> .i. for .l.
>
> Advice, learned ones? As always, my thanks in advance.
>
> --
> Juris
>
> Juris G. Lidaka
> Department of English
> West Virginia State University
> Institute, WV 25112-1000
> USA
>
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