Primi sondaggi sul testimone J del volgarizzamento catalano della Consolatio Philosophiae

Abstract: La vicenda testuale del volgarizzamento catalano del De consolatione philosophiae di Boezio si caratterizza per la problematicità dei suoi aspetti redazionali e per la complessità della sua tradizione manoscritta. Il perduto testo originale di questa traduzione, realizzata dal frate domenicano Pere Saplana in un periodo compreso tra il 1358 e il 1362, si è infatti conservato in due redazioni differenti. La prima (?), anonima, è tramandata da un testimone completo in castigliano e da un frammento catalano. La seconda (?), tràdita da un numero elevato di testimoni, è invece il risultato di un lavoro di revisione operato sul testo di Saplana dal domenicano Antoni Ginebreda (1390 c.). In tempi recenti uno dei due codici del Boeci conservati presso l’Arxiu Comarcal de la Segarra di Cervera (sigla J) è stato indicato come possibile latore di una redazione prossima ad ?, considerata in molti punti quella più conservativa rispetto all’originale di Saplana. Il contributo offre un’indagine preliminare riguardante la struttura e i contenuti del testo tràdito dal codice J ponendolo in relazione con quanto tramandato da ? e ?. Parole-chiave: Boezio; volgarizzamenti medievali; volgarizzamenti catalani; Pere Saplana; Antoni Ginebreda Abstract: The history of Boethius’s De consolatione philosophiae Catalan translation is particularly complex for what concerns its manuscript tradition as well as for the textual differences that can be found in the exstant versions of it. The lost original version of this vernacular translation, written around the years 1358-1362 by the Dominican friar Pere Saplana, is preserved in two different versions. The first one (?) is anonymous, and has survived in its complete form in a Castilian translation and in a Catalan fragment. The second (?) is transmitted by a large number of witnesses and is the result of a revision of Saplana’s text made around 1390 by the Dominican Antoni Ginebreda. One of the two manuscripts containing this translation preserved in the Arxiu Comarcal de la Segarra of Cervera (designed as J) was recently mentioned as the possible bearer of a version very similar to ?, considered the closest to Saplana’s original text. The paper offers a first analysis of the structure and the readings of the text of J, comparing them to the versions transmitted by ? and ?. Keywords: Boethius; Medieval Translations; Catalan Translations; Pere Saplana; Antoni Ginebreda

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A poem on the refortification of Dorylaion in 1175

BYZANTINA SYMMEIKTA ◽

10.12681/byzsym.1029 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 21 (1) ◽

pp. 137

Author(s):

Foteini SPINGOU

Keyword(s):

Sixteenth Century ◽

Fifteenth Century ◽

Asia Minor ◽

Original Text ◽

Bodleian Library ◽

Font Size ◽

Manuscript Tradition ◽

Court Literature ◽

History Of ◽

Metrical Analysis

In the summer/autumn of 1175, Manuel Komnenos (1143-1180) undertook the rebuilding of Dorylaion, one of the major aplekta in Asia Minor. For this occasion a poem was written. The strong acquaintance of the poet with the conventions of court literature, the occasional content of the poem and its panegyric character, suggest that the text was written for a small ceremony which took place at Dorylaion. The author is probably an anonymous professional court poet who accompanied Manuel in his expedition. The authorship is further discussed since the manuscript tradition might suggest that John Tzetzes was the author. After a close look at the language, style and metre of the poem, this identification is excluded. In 1908, Spyridon Lambros published the poem on the basis of manuscript Barocci 194 (fifteenth century) of the Bodleian Library. This study re-edits the poem on the basis of two more manuscripts: manuscript Parisinus Graecus 2644 (late thirteenth century) of the Bibliothèque Nationale and Auctarium T.1.10 of the Bodleian Library (sixteenth century). The history of each manuscript is analysed and the relation between them examined. It is established that the Auctarium is a direct copy from the Parisian manuscript. The metrical analysis of the poem follows and special textual problems are discussed. Finally, the translation of the original text is provided.

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Philology and the History of Words: Some Notes on the Humanists’ Etymological Argumentation

Philologia Classica ◽

10.21638/spbu20.2021.110 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 16 (1) ◽

pp. 106-116

Author(s):

Mikhail Sergeev ◽

Keyword(s):

Sixteenth Century ◽

Historical Research ◽

Original Form ◽

Original Text ◽

Perfect State ◽

Language Form ◽

Original Language ◽

Manuscript Tradition ◽

Literary Sources ◽

History Of

The article concerns the influence of humanist scholarship on sixteenth-century etymological practices, testified in the Neo-Latin reference works and special treatises on linguistics and history. Being an important part of historical research, which relied mostly on Greek and Latin literary sources, etymology could not but adopt some important principles and instruments of contemporary philological work, notably on the source criticism. The foremost rule was to study the sources in their original language, form, and eliminate any corrupted data as well as any information not attested in written sources. This presumed that every text had its own written history, which tended to be a gradual deterioration of its state, represented in the manuscript tradition that was subject to scribal errors and misinterpretations. This view on the textual history was strikingly consonant with that on the history of languages, which was treated by the humanists as permanent corruption and inevitable degeneration from the noble and perfect state of their ancient ancestors. In an effort to restore the original text, philology used emendation as a cure for scribal abuse and textual losses; likewise, language historians had their own tool, namely etymology, to reconstruct and explain the original form of words (including the nomenclature of various sciences). The intersection of both procedures is taken into account in the article and it demonstrates how textual conjectures, manuscript collation, and graphical interpretation of misreadings were employed by the sixteenth-century scholars to corroborate their etymological speculations, which established themselves as one of the ways of the reception and criticism of classical scholarly heritage.

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Dialogue of Methodius of Olympus ‘On the Resurrection’ (CPG 1812) and the Methodology of Critical Edition of the Slavonic Texts

Библия и христианская древность ◽

10.31802/bca.2020.7.3.003 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

А.А. Морозов

Keyword(s):

Critical Edition ◽

Original Version ◽

Ancient Greek ◽

Basic Principles ◽

Full Version ◽

Manuscript Tradition ◽

History Of

Диалог «О воскресении» сщмч. Мефодия Олимпийского, написанный в кон. III — нач. IV в. на древнегреческом языке, дошёл до нас в своей первоначальной версии только частично, благодаря фрагментам, сохранённым в трудах более поздних авторов. Полная же версия этого сочинения сохранилась в славянском переводе, текст которого остаётся неопубликованным до сих пор. Описание славянской рукописной традиции данного диалога предваряется кратким описанием истории изданий славянских текстов, а также основных принципов критического издания, предложенных в 1929 г. Антуаном Мейе и Андре Вайяном. В завершении данной статьи даётся описание проекта нового критического издания славянского и греческого текстов данного диалога. The dialogue «On the Resurrection» of Methodius of Olympus, written in the late III — early IV century in Ancient Greek, came to us in its original version only partly thanks to fragments preserved in the works of later authors. The full version of this work has been preserved in the Slavonic translation, the text of which remains unpublished until now. The description of the Slavonic manuscript tradition of this dialogue is preceded by a brief description of the history of the editions of the Slavonic texts, as well as the basic principles of critical edition proposed in 1929 by Antoine Meillet and André Vaillant. This article concludes with a description of the project for a new critical edition of the Slavonic and Greek texts of this dialogue.

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Transfigurations of The Miraculous Mandarin: The Significance of Genre in the Genesis of Bartók’s Pantomime

Studia Musicologica ◽

10.1556/6.2019.00003 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 60 (1-4) ◽

pp. 23-68

Author(s):

László Vikárius

Keyword(s):

Significant Role ◽

Original Version ◽

Primary Sources ◽

Great Success ◽

Complete Work ◽

History Of ◽

Complete Form ◽

Entire History ◽

History Of Composition

Based on a fresh study of all primary sources of Bartók’s The Miraculous Mandarin (composition: 1918/19, orchestration: 1924) the article reconsiders the entire history of composition and repeated revisions of the work. The original choice of genre (expressive “pantomime” in contrast to “ballet”) seems to have played a significant role in this troubled history, which shows the composer’s efforts to transform sections of the original “gesture” music into a more symphonic style often making the music more succinct. Puzzlingly, the first full score of the complete work and a revised edition of the piano reduction published posthumously in 1955 by Universal Edition present an abridged form of the work, which cannot be fully authenticated and was finally restored to its more complete form in Peter Bartók’s new edition of 2000. Looking for the possible origin of the more obscure cuts, discussions with choreographer Aurelio Milloss in 1936 and Gyula Harangozó in 1939/40, both of whom later directed and danced productions of the work under the baton of János Ferencsik with great success (in Milan in 1942 and in Budapest in 1945, resp.), should probably be taken into consideration as these might have resulted in the integration of cuts into the published full score. Apart from trying to understand the different stages of the work’s long evolution, the article argues that it is essential to study the original version in the compositional sources since it reveals Bartók’s first concept of the piece composed in his period of highest expressionism.

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Nicolaas Witsen's letter of 1698 to Martin Lister about a Dutch expedition to the South Land (Western Australia): the original text and a review of its significance for the history of Australian natural history

Archives of Natural History ◽

10.3366/anh.1994.21.2.147 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 21 (2) ◽

pp. 147-167 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

E. CHARLES NELSON

Keyword(s):

Natural History ◽

Western Australia ◽

Original Text ◽

The South ◽

History Of

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‘... Call the Mute Artifacts to Speech’: New Essays on the History of Archeology

Herald of an Archivist ◽

10.28995/2073-0101-2018-4-1274-1279 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 1274-1279

Author(s):

Elena V. Olimpieva ◽

Keyword(s):

20Th Century ◽

Comparative Method ◽

Early 20Th Century ◽

Historical Overview ◽

Historical Experience ◽

Historical Material ◽

Manuscript Tradition ◽

History Of ◽

Publication Practices ◽

Controversial Nature

The article reviews O. A. Shashkova’s ‘... Call the Mute Artifacts to Speech.’ Essays on the History of Archaeography of the 15th - Early 20th Century. Wide array of sources and broad geographical frameworks allow Shashkova to present emergence and development of Russian and European archaeography from the 15th to early 20th century intelligibly enough for educational purposes. A whole chapter is devoted to the manuscript tradition and publishing of sources before Gutenberg. When considering the formation of archaeographical tradition, the author uses comparative method. O. A. Shashkova offers a historical overview and analyzes theoretical and practical issues of archaeography. The reviewer notes the significance of the chosen topic due to a need to reconsider the development of publishing in light of modern views on archaeography and to make it accessible to students and non-professionals. She notes traditional academic approach of O. A. Shashkova to presentation of the development publication practices. The review considers the possibility of using the ‘Essays...’ in studying the history of archaeography and offers possible directions for a broader consideration of historical experience, in particular, of Novikov’s publication projects. The review notes the controversial nature of the author’s approach to systematization of her large historical material in order to consider issues concerning the study of archaeographical practices. It stresses that coverage of issues of development of methods of preparation of publications separately from its historical and practical aspects hinders successful mastering of the material by an untrained reader. It concludes that the publication has high practical value for specialists in archaeography and students.

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Mesyatseslovs memory of the Russian Orthodox Church

Theological Herald ◽

10.31802/gb.2020.38.3.007 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 160-198

Author(s):

Макарий Веретенников

Keyword(s):

Russian Orthodox ◽

Orthodox Church ◽

Russian Orthodox Church ◽

Analysis And Synthesis ◽

Liturgical Texts ◽

History Of ◽

Complete Form ◽

Characteristic Features ◽

Heaven And Earth ◽

The Church

Статья посвящена содержанию, общим принципам построения и характерным особенностям календаря, или месяцеслова, Русской Православной Церкви. Автор использует методы анализа и синтеза. В итоге делаются нижеследующие обобщения. Месяцеслов был принесён на Русь из Византии в достаточно завершённом виде, однако в процессе исторического развития он дополнился особенными русскими праздниками. Календарь-месяцеслов - это грандиозный собор святых, подвизавшихся в разных местах на протяжении веков, единение Церкви Небесной и земной, история святости и история нашей Церкви. Месяцесловным памятям посвящены составленные гимнографами богослужебные тексты, которые поются и читаются в храмах. Традиционно почитается день кончины угодников Божиих, память открытия мощей святых, перенесения их святых мощей или же день канонизации угодников Божиих, реже - день их рождения. Фенологические наблюдения русского народа связаны с повседневной деятельностью и увязаны с месяцесловом, что свидетельствует о его проникновении в повседневную жизнь русского человека. The article is devoted to the content, General principles of construction and characteristic features of the calendar, or mesyatseslov, of the Russian Orthodox Church. The author uses methods of analysis and synthesis. As a result, the following generalizations are made. The mesyatseslov was brought to Russia from Byzantium in a fairly complete form, but in the course of historical development it was supplemented with special Russian holidays. The calendar-mesyatseslov is a grandiose council of saints who have labored in different places over the centuries, the unity of the Church of Heaven and earth, the history of holiness and the history of our Church. Liturgical texts composed by hymnographers, which are sung and read in churches, are dedicated to the mesyatseslovs memory. Traditionally, the day of the death of saints, the memory of the discovery of the relics of saints, the transfer of their Holy relics, or the day of the canonization of saints, less often - the day of their birth are honored. Russian people’s phenological observations are related to their daily activities and are linked to mesyatseslov, which indicates its penetration into the daily life of the Russian people.

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A problem of method in the history of texts and its implications for the manuscript tradition of Terence

Revue d histoire des textes ◽

10.3406/rht.1996.1448 ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 26 (1996) ◽

pp. 269-287 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Benjamin Victor

Keyword(s):

Manuscript Tradition ◽

History Of

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Codex Vatopedinus gr. 610 and Its Place in the Manuscript Tradition of Kallistos Angelikoudes’ Works

Istoriya ◽

10.18254/s207987840015968-3 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 (5 (103)) ◽

pp. 0

Author(s):

Oleg Rodionov

Keyword(s):

Significant Part ◽

Greek Text ◽

Manuscript Tradition ◽

Patristic Literature ◽

History Of ◽

Byzantine Period ◽

The Church ◽

Shed Light ◽

Literary Legacy

The article deals with one of the oldest manuscripts containing a significant part of the theological chapters of Kallistos Angelikoudes, one of the most important hesychast authors of the late Byzantine period. Codex Vatopedinus gr. 610 was written in the late 14th c. It contains a great amount of quotations excerpted from Patristic literature. In the second part of the codex, one can find the chapters of Kallistos Angelikoudes; these 92 chapters were retrieved from a greater collection containing now about 200 chapters. The article discusses the content of the Vatopedi manuscript, pointing out to the use of many Patristic fragments included there in different works by Kallistos Angelikoudes. This may shed light on the origin and purpose of the manuscript. A further study of the history of the text of these chapters allows us to assess the place of the Vatopedi codex in the manuscript tradition of Kallistos Angelikoudes’ literary legacy. The Church Slavonic translation of this collection of Angelikoudes’ chapters made by Paisius Velichkovsky in the 1770—1790s reproduces many peculiarities of the Greek text contained in the Vatopedi manuscript and was presumably based on a copy of that codex.

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Hvem var opænbarligh gen guth i Jyske Lovs Fortale? Et studie i Lovbogens teksthistorie

Fund og Forskning i Det Kongelige Biblioteks Samlinger ◽

10.7146/fof.v52i0.41292 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 52 ◽

Author(s):

Michael H. Gelting

Keyword(s):

Fifteenth Century ◽

Canon Law ◽

Original Text ◽

Standard Text ◽

History Of ◽

The Will ◽

The Law ◽

Further Development ◽

Political Realities ◽

Made In

One sentence in the Prologue of the Law of Jutland (1241) has caused much scholarlydiscussion since the nineteenth century. Did it say that “the law which the king givesand the land adopts, he [i.e. the king] may not change or abolish without the consentof the land, unless he [i.e. the king] is manifestly contrary to God” – or “unless it [i.e.the law] is manifestly contrary to God”? In this article it is argued that scholarly conjectures about the original sense of the text at this point have paid insufficient attentionto the textual history of the law-book.On the basis of Per Andersen’s recent study of the early manuscripts of the Lawof Jutland, it is shown that the two earliest surviving manuscripts both have a readingthat leaves little doubt that the original text stated that the king could not change thelaw without the consent of the land unless the law was manifestly contrary to God. Theequivocal reading that has caused the scholarly controversy was introduced by a conservativerevision of the law-book (known as the AB text), which is likely to have originatedin the aftermath of the great charter of 1282, which sealed the defeat of the jurisdictionalpretensions of King Erik V. A more radical reading, leaving no doubt that the kingwould be acting contrary to God in changing the law without consent, occurs in an earlyfourteenth-century manuscript and sporadically throughout the fifteenth century, butit never became the generally accepted text. On the contrary, an official revision of thelaw-book (the I text), probably from the first decade of the fourteenth century, sought toeliminate the ambiguity by adding “and he may still not do it against the will of the land”,thus making it clear that it was the law that might be contrary to God.Due to the collapse of the Danish monarchy in the second quarter of the fourteenthcentury, the I text never superseded the AB text. The two versions coexistedthroughout the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and soon produced a number ofhybrid versions. One of these gained particular importance, since it was the text thatwas used for the first printed editions of the Law of Jutland in 1504 and 1508. Thus itbecame the standard text of the law-book in the sixteenth century. The early printededitions also included the medieval Latin translation of the Law of Jutland and theLatin glosses to the text. The glosses are known to be the work of Knud Mikkelsen,bishop of Viborg from 1451 to 1478. Based on a close comparison of the three texts, itis argued here that Bishop Knud was also the author of the revised Danish and Latintexts of the law-book that are included in the early printed editions, and that the wholework was probably finished in or shortly after 1466. Bishop Knud included the I text’saddition to the sentence about the king’s legislative powers.An effort to distribute Bishop Knud’s work as a new authoritative text seems tohave been made in 1488, but rather than replacing the earlier versions of the Lawof Jutland, this effort appears to have triggered a spate of new versions of the medievaltext, each of them based upon critical collation of several different manuscripts.In some of these new versions, a further development in the sentence on the king’slegislative power brought the sentence in line with the political realities of the late fifteenthcentury. Instead of having “he” [i.e. the king] as the agent of legal change, theyattribute the initiative to the indefinite personal pronoun man: at the time, any suchinitiative would require the agreement of the Council of the Realm.Only the printing press brought this phase of creative confusion to an end in theearly sixteenth century.Finally, it is argued that the present article’s interpretation of the original senseof this particular passage in the Prologue is in accordance with the nature of Danishlegislation in the period from c.1170 to the 1240s, when most major legislation happenedin response to papal decretals and changes in canon law.

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