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Darrera modificació: 2009-08-12
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Mandeville, John, The Defective Version of Mandeville's Travels, ed. by M. C. Seymour, Oxford, Oxford University Press (Early English Text Society, 319), 2002, xxx + 234 pp.
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- Mandeville's Travels was written in French in c. 1356 by an unknown author, possibly a regular in an abbey in northern France. A copy of this primary version of the book was carried into England before c. 1375 and there developed a separate Anglo-French scribal tradition, known as the Insular Version, which is the source of all of the English and Latin Translations made in England. The English translation known as the 'Defective Version' is the oldest and also circulated most widely. Its name derives from the loss of the second quire in the Insular manuscript, or its antecedent, from which it was translated, containing part of the description of Egypt. Despite this loss of text, the Defective Version established itself as the dominant form of the work in England, and was perpetuated in the printed editions of the text until 1725. Both Chaucer and the Pearl-poet probably encountered the Travels in this form, and it was printed in the editio princeps by Richard Pynson in the mid-1490s.
[Reviews:] Whilst Seymour's text is ultimately speculative, we do now have a coherent, immensely practical English version of the Travels with which to work (Medium Aevum). The publication of this important version will make a substantial contribution to the field of scholarship, especially for those interested in the circulation of the Travels in England and in the Mandeville manuscript tradition (Medium Aevum). Seymour makes light work of the notoriously knotty problems of the Mandeville manuscripts, bringing economy and clarity to matters of orthography, collation, dialect, omission, and lacunae (Medium Aevum).
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* A. P. Bale, a Medium Aevum (), en accés lliure a http://www.articlearchives.com/economy-economic-ind ... 
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