medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
From: Tom Izbicki <[log in to unmask]>
> Lost can mean someone walked off with it, as in the case of the
Quedlinburg Gospels:
>
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CEEDD1439F932A35756C0A966958260
yes, but the Chartrain ms. case seems to have simply been "misplaced" --it was
in the municipal library at Chateaudun (30 miles or so south of Chartres).
my Pet Theory was that a well-known Chartrain scholar (and canon of the
cathedral) took it back to Chartres for safekeeping at the beginning of the
war, with perfectly good intentions, recalling perhaps the destruction of
Chateaudun in the 1870 Acute Collective Psychotic Episode.
in this imaginative scenario, the ms. would have been safely housed in the
municipal library at Chartres.
which looked something like this, after being rather radically redecorated by
a single bomb (accidentally dropped) from an American plane in May of 1944,
http://us.a2.yahoofs.com/groups/g_2658397/e159/__sr_/b747.jpg?grArX0IBTrdawX7K
http://us.a2.yahoofs.com/groups/g_2658397/e159/__sr_/e4b3.jpg?grArX0IBs0NXV56s
destroying (not "walking off with") over 800 mss.
but, it seems that someone down in Chateaudun was going through some old boxes
a few months ago, and the "lost" ms. was found.
so much for Speculation.
and, btw, Library Science.
c
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