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Darrera modificació: 2016-11-28
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
D'Aronco, Maria Amalia, "The edition of the Old English Herbal and Medicina de quadrupedibus: two case studies", dins: Bierbaumer, Peter - Klug, Helmut W. (eds.), Old Names – New Growth: Proceedings of the 2nd ASPNS Conference (University of Graz, Austria, 6-10 June 2007), and Related Essays, Frankfurt am Main - Oxford, Peter Lang, 2009, pp. 35-56.
- Resum
- In 1984, more H.J. de Vriend published a new critical edition of the Old English Herbarium and the Medicina de quadrupedibus for the Early English Text Society. These two tracts are vernacular synopses of various Latin pharmacological texts that circulated throughout western Europe from late antiquity to the middle ages and beyond. They are attested in four witnesses, an extraordinary exception in the history of OE culture where the texts have been generally preserved in sole and unique survivors. It is the very nature of the manuscript tradition of the two Old English pharmacopoeias that prompts me to comment on de Vriend's actual editorial practice. Therefore, the main scope of this paper concerns not so much the undoubted merits of de Vriend's edition as various observations about specific aspects of his edition. In particular, I shall focus on two more general characteristics: his treatment of variant readings, and his handling of scribal emendations.
- Matèries
- Història natural - Vegetals
Medicina - Farmacologia
Veterinària - Menescalia
Crítica textual
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