Early medieval glosses on Prudentius' Psychomachia : the Weitz tradition / by Sinead O'Sullivan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Sullivan, Sinéad.

Series:

Mittellateinische Studien und Texte ; Bd. 31.

Mittellateinische Studien und Texte, 0076-9754 ; Bd. 31

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christian poetry, Latin--History and criticism.

Christian poetry, Latin.

Manuscripts, Medieval.

Soul in literature.

Prudentius, 348- Psychomachia.

Prudentius.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (409 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book elucidates the significance of glosses on Prudentius' Psychomachia in the German or Weitz manuscript tradition. It redirects attention away from the philological concerns of conventional scholarship toward those of mainstream Carolingian and Ottonian intellectual history.

Contents:

Intro

CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

List of Manuscripts and Abbreviations

Introduction

PART ONE

Chapter One: Prudentius in the Carolingian and Ottonian Worlds

Chapter Two: The Weitz Glosses and Manuscripts

SECTION ONE: THE WEITZ GLOSSES

(1) The Prudentius Manuscripts

(2) Prudentius Glosses

(3) Authorship

(4) Provenance of the Glosses

(5) First Commentary

(6) French or Valenciennes Tradition

(7) German or Weitz Tradition

(8) Clusters of Related Weitz Manuscripts

(9) German Glosses

(10) Centres of Distribution

SECTION TWO: THE WEITZ MANUSCRIPTS

(1) London, British Library, Add. 34248

(2) London, British Library, Add. 16894

(3) Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale Française, lat. 18554

(4) Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale Française, nouv. acq. lat. 241

(5) Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale Française, lat. 13953

(6) Zurich, Zentralbibliothek Ms. Car. C 164

(7) Zurich, Zentralbibliothek Ms. Rh. 62

(8) Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Clm 14395

(9) Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Clm 18922

(10) Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Clm 13108

(11) Kiel, Universitätsbibliothek Cod. MS. KB 145

(12) Bern, Burgerbibliothek Cod. 264

(13) Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale lat. 9968&amp

#8211

72

(14) Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale lat. 9987&amp

91

(15) Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale lat. 10066&amp

77

(16) Cologne, Dombibliothek 81

(17) St Gall, Stiftsbibliothek 135

(18) St Gall, Stiftsbibliothek 136

(19) St Gall, Stiftsbibliothek 292

(20) Einsiedeln, Stiftsbibliothek cod 15

(21) Einsiedeln, Stiftsbibliothek cod 302

(22) Einsiedeln, Stiftsbibliothek cod 312

(23) Einsiedeln, Stiftsbibliothek cod 316

(24) Prague, Universitní knihovna MS VIII H 4.

(25) Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek Cod. 247

(26) Göttweig, Stiftsbibliothek 44 (34)

Chapter Three: The Function of the Weitz Glosses

(1) Lexical Glosses

(2) Grammatical Glosses

(3) Syntactical Glosses

(4) Levels of Interpretation

Chapter Four: The Sources of the Weitz Glosses

(1) Grammatical Works

(2) Glossaries

(3) Encyclopaedic Works

(4) Bible

(5) Patristic and Early Medieval Biblical Commentaries

Conclusion

PART TWO

Editorial Principles

Edition

Appendix to the Edition

Bibliography

Primary Sources

Secondary Sources

Index of Manuscripts

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D

E

G

H

K

L

M

P

R

S

T

V

W

Z

General Index

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F

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J

N

O

Q

U

W.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [349]-373) and index.

ISBN:

1-280-91501-3

9786610915019

90-474-0516-1

1-4294-0721-2

OCLC:

191935943