At 15:10 14.01.99 -0800, you wrote:
>Mr. Lieberknecht:
>
>the OE redaction of the Visio Pauli (in Oxford, Bodleian
>Library, Junius 85 and 86) begins with the sun complaining
>briefly to God about mankind, then the earth doing so at
>greater length, with a list of mankind's sins. The text is
>interpolated into a Soul and Body homily, so the beginning
>and end are imperfect. But the sun and earth do complain to
>God about mankind. There is no general judgment here, and
>maybe this isn't what you mean by "cosmic witnesses," but
>the laments are there, and I thought mention might be
>helpful.
> I was working with Healey's edition of the OE, and
>with Rudolf Willard's "The Address of the Soul to the
>Body," PMLA 50, 1935. I don't have access to Healey's
>edition at this university, so I apologize if my notes are
>horribly wrong, or if I misunderstood the inquiry.
>
>s rowley
Dear Ms. Rowley,
Many thanks for your reply, and for putting me right on this point! Even
without a general cosmic judgement, the motif as you describe it is very
much what I had claimed to be absent from the tradition of the Visio Pauli.
I stand corrected. As regards Healey, I had browsed her introduction in my
incomplete xerocopy, but having my, ahem, difficulties with reading Old
English I had not looked at the text itself... The next time I will think
twice before claiming expertise for the Visio Pauli!
Yours,
Otfried
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