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Record Number:
11904
Author(s)/Creator(s):
Gwara , Scott.
Contributor(s):
Title:
Manuscripts of Aldhelm's "Prosa de Virginitate" and the Rise of Hermeneutic Literacy in Tenth-Century England [descriptions of several "Prosa de virginitate" manuscripts with a proposed textual transmission; the author suggests that Glastonbury and Canterbury were the Benedictine centers that produced the extensive glosses and were responsible for the Aldhelm revival in the tenth century].
Source:
Studi Medievali 35, 1 (Giugno 1994): Pages 101 - 159.
Description:
Article Type:
Journal Article
Subject
(See Also)
:
Aldhelm, Bishop of Sherborne, Saint- Prosa de Virginitate
Glosses
Latin Literature
Literature- Prose
Manuscripts
Monks
Rhetoric
Virginity in Literature
Award Note:
Geographic Area:
British Isles
Century:
7, 9- 10
Primary Evidence:
Manuscript; 1) London, British Library, MS Royal 7 D.xxiv, pars ii, fols. 82-168. The text has both Latin and Old English glosses in nine different hands. It is dated to the tenth century.2) Membra disiecta from an early ninth century manuscript:New Haven, Yale Unive
Illustrations:
Eleven figures. All diagrams reconstructing the quires in the early ninth century manuscript now dispersed among the libraries at Yale, Cambridge, British Library, Bodleian, Philadelphia Free Library, and Oslo.
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Year of Publication:
1994.
Language:
English
ISSN/ISBN:
03918467