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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
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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
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Conference Info:
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Year of Publication:
1996.
Language:
French
ISSN/ISBN:
00358029