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Darrera modificació: 2009-11-20
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Keiser, George R., "Reconstructing Robert Thornton's Herbal (15th-century manuscript fragments)", Medium Aevum, 65 (1996), 35-53.
- Resum
- At the end of Lincoln Cathedral, Dean and Chapter Library, MS 91, one of the two Thornton MSS, are seven fragments -- fols 315-21 -- apparently the inner edges of leaves that were torn away during an unhappy moment in the history of the codex. These fragments follow a book of medical recipes, the Liber de diversis medicinis (fols [280.sup.r]-[314.sup.v]), which constitutes a third, separate, and clearly unrelated booklet following on two other separate and distinct booklets, the first a collection of vernacular romances and other narratives (fols [1.sup.r]-[178.sup.v]), the second a collection of moral and devotional writings, mostly in the vernacular (fols [179.sup.r]-[279.sup.v]). Despite the abundant attention given to the Lincoln Thornton MS in the past two centuries, these fragments have gone almost unnoticed -- and not surprisingly. The rich collections in the two preceding booklets, including unique texts of the prose Alexander, the alliterative Morte Arthure, and Sir Percevall of Galles, as well as the Liber itself, are of sufficient quantity and interest to occupy the attention of a legion of scholars over many generations. Moreover, the scant nature of the text on these fragments (usually no more than two, three or four words per line) and the presence of marginal headings on three leaves indicating they contained a herbal have encouraged, understandably, no previous attempts to identify the nature of the text more accurately.
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