Powell, Susan 2011, John Mirk's Festial edited from British Library MS Cotton Claudius A.II. Volume II. , Early English Text Society, OS 335 , Oxford University Press, Oxford.
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Abstract
The Festial, as the most frequently circulated orthodox English sermon collection of the Middle Ages, presents a particularly difficult task for the editor. There are two recensions, and there is also a comprehensive revision and expansion in four extant manuscripts. The first recension (Group A) presents a complex pattern of copying and re-copying over a long period of time in a variety of different places - inevitably, many intervening manuscripts have been lost (twelve survive). The second recension (Group B) presents a much more stable text (eight manuscripts). In addition, there are twenty partial manuscripts and manuscripts with just a few Festial excerpts, some adapted for different contexts from Mirk’s original. This is the first edition since Theodor Erbe's EETS ES 96 edition of 1905 (based on only 6 MSS), of which only Part I was published. It is the result of a consideration of all the known manuscripts and consists of Introduction, Text, Explanatory Notes, Select Glossary, Glossary of Proper Names, and five Appendices.
Item Type: | Book |
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Themes: | Memory, Text and Place |
Schools: | Schools > School of Humanities, Languages & Social Sciences > Centre for English Literature and Language |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
Refereed: | Yes |
Series Name: | Early English Text Society |
ISBN: | 978-0-19-959037-7 |
Depositing User: | Professor Susan Powell |
Date Deposited: | 06 Oct 2011 11:14 |
Last Modified: | 27 Aug 2021 19:59 |
URI: | https://usir.salford.ac.uk/id/eprint/17917 |
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