St Patrick's Purgatory: Two Versions of Owayne Miles and the Vision of William of Stranton Together with the Long Text of Tractatus de Purgato

ISBN-13: 9780197223000 / Angielski / Twarda / 1991 / 438 str.

Robert Easting; R. Easting

Opis

Containing four texts, this volume collates all the major Middle English accounts of otherworld visions seen at St Patrick's Purgatory. It presents a rare edition of Owayne Miles from the Auchinleck manuscript, National Library of Scotland, MS Advocates' 19.2.1., and the couplet version from BL Ms Cotton Caligula A ii and Yale University Library, MS 365 The Book of Brome. It also includes the first parallel-text edition of the two extant manuscripts of the early 15th-century prose Vision of William of Stranton, from BL MSS Royal 17 B xliii and Additional 34193. The long version of the late 12th-century Latin prose Tractatus de Purgatorio Sancti Patricii is edited in full from three of the earliest manuscripts: Lambeth Palace Library MS 51, BL MS Royal 13 B viii, and Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, MS 50. It includes an introduction, commentary on all the texts, and a full Middle English glossary.

Recenzje

'This edition is furnished with an extensive and helpful commentary and bibliography. As well as providing a careful examination of the language of each text, Easting includes a detailed analysis of each manuscript in which these visions occur ... this edition is of undoubted value ... the interest reader will find much useful elucidation in the extensive commentary, in which Easting frequently indicates the iconographic and literary context of each vision ... the quality of its content ensures that perseverance will be rewarded.' Dierdre Kessel Brown, Medium Aevum, Vol. LXII, No. 1