| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,200,000)
Fiscal Year 2004: ¥500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000)
Fiscal Year 2003: ¥800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000)
Fiscal Year 2002: ¥900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000)
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| Research Abstract |
This project aimed to research, assess, and edit hitherto unedited late medieval religious writings in Western Manuscripts, mainly in MS Pepys 2125, Magdalene College Cambridge [P], and MS G.31, St. John's College, Cambridge [G].
The results of this project concerning P are as follows : an edition of "Dimitte me, Domine,... " (item 3) has been completed and accepted by the Mediaeval Studies (Toronto University) for the next issue. The text is accompanied by extensive textual and other notes, and by an introduction, with a systematic discussion of the manuscript containing the text, then the text's structure, analogues, date, style, and audience. I also presented a paper discussing a method of textual compilation typical to late medieval vernacular writings, comparing related texts in P (item 12, "Toaching of St Barnabas"), MS Hopton Hall, Keio University, and MS Additional 37049, British Library, London.
MS G consists of a single text-a Middle English translation of the Book of Genesis, interspersed with glosses translated from the Latin Historia scholastica [HS by Peter Comestor and the original additions. It also owes to Guyard Desmoulins' La Bible historiale, a medieval French translation of the HS with additional biblical texts and Peter Riga's Aurora, also a then popular metrical Bible story based on the HS. In the light of the sever episcopal persecution of vernacular translations in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, we must conclude that this is a unique and very important attempt to disseminate scriptural text to lay people. The translation is smooth and more idiomatic, and covers most of the biblical text of the Book of Genesis. My proposal to edit this version has been accepted by the Middle English Texts (Heidelberg University). This edition will also include the texts of the HS and the Bible historiale from MS Royal 19.D.III.
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