Pearl: Text and Translation

ISBN-13: 9781554814589 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 224 str.

Jane Beal; Jane Beal

Spis treści

• Acknowledgements
• List of Abbreviations
• Introduction
• A Note on the Text Pearl
• Appendix A: Literary Sourcebook – Key Passages
• Parable
• Parable of the Pearl of Great Price
• Parable of the Treasure in the Field
• Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard
• Descriptions of Pearls
• From Pliny, Natural History
• From Albert the Great, De animalibus
• From Marbod of Rennes, De lapidibus
• From Bartholomæus Anglicus, De proprietatibus rerum
• From The Peterborough Lapidary
• From Medieval Latin and French Bestiaries
• Life of Saint Margaret of Antioch (from the Legenda Aurea)
• The Spring of Narcissus (from The Romance of the Rose)
• The Story of Orpheus and Eurydice (from King Alfred's Version of Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy, trans. Walter John Sedgefield)
• Dante Meets Matilda and Beatrice in the Earthly Paradise (from Dante's Purgatorio XXIX-XXXIII, trans. A. S. Kline)
• Pygmalion and Galatea (from Ovid's Metamorphoses)
• The Phoenix of Arabia (from Ovid's Metamorphoses)
• Origen on the Song of Songs
• The New Jerusalem (Revelation 21)
• Appendix B: List of Biblical Source Passages
• Appendix C: List of Significant Liturgical Dates
• Appendix D: Chart of Concatenation Words
• Select Bibliography