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Record Number: 10936 Author(s)/Creator(s): Hasenohr , Geneviève. Contributor(s): Title: Du bon usage de la galette des rois [a meditation describes in detail the traditional holiday game in which the person who finds the bean hidden in the twelfth night cake is named king; the text appears in a manuscript copied by a Benedictine nun; the article includes an edition of the text Source: Romania , 40241 ( 1996): Pages 445 - 467. Description: Article Type: Edition of Text;Journal Article Subject (See Also): Devotional Literature Editing Texts Epiphany Folklore Literature- Prose Meditacion Sur la Sollempniteit de l'Apparicion Nostre Seigneur Aus Trois Roys, French Devotional Text Monasticism Popular Culture Scribes and Scriptoria Award Note: Geographic Area: Low Countries Century: 15 Primary Evidence: Manuscript; Leiden, Bibliothèque Universitaire, BPL 46A, Fols. 191-194. Paper. Written around 1477 by a nun at the Benedictine monastery of Saint-Victor of Huy. The colophon which precedes the text under discussion gives the date 1477 and states that the nun copyist Illustrations: Table: Abstract: Related Resources: Author's Affiliation: Conference Info: - , - Year of Publication: 1996. Language: French ISSN/ISBN: 00358029

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