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The Kassel Fragment from an Early South English Legendary

Published:2024-06-01 Issue:2 Volume:142 Page:241-262
ISSN:1865-8938
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Author:

Schultze Dirk¹

Affiliation:

1. Georg-August-Universität Göttingen Göttingen Germany

Abstract

Abstract A print of Siliceus’s Arithmetica (Paris 1526), once preserved in the Landesbibliothek in Kassel, but now lost, contained a fragment of one parchment leaf until it was removed in 1904. The text, vaguely identified by Wiedemann (1994) as a “Vita Thomae Beket”, is here more precisely identified as part of the “Life of St. Thomas of Canterbury” from an early South English Legendary. I describe fragment and text in detail, and the text is analysed with respect to dialect and to its position in the transmission history. A diplomatic edition of the text preserved in this fragment makes this early witness of an important Middle English legendary available for the first time.

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Link

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/ang-2024-0020/pdf

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