Though the well-known copy of the English Stimulus amoris and The Poor Caitiff which is now MS Downside 26542 is written in a hand not identical with that of A, the two manuscripts resemble one another so much, in handwriting, rubrication, lay-out and contents, that it is hard to suppose that they are not the products of the same scriptorium. [...] The general character of A, as an an- thology of less popular spiritual classics which comprises the unique copies of Julian's short text and of the English Ruysbroek Treatise of Per- fection has previously been remarked.9 That the Downside manuscript should contain Latin extracts from the Horologium and from Mechtild of Hackborn is evidence of the same kind of connoisseurship. [...] It is an anthology of Augustine Baker's Englishings, primarily for the benefit of the Cambrai nuns, of a wide selection from mediaeval and post-Reformation spiritual classics, and its chief importance is that it indicates the probability that we must thank Baker, as will be shown below, for the preservation of a complete long text of Julian and for its study in the seventeenth century, culminating [...] II SCRIBES AND OWNERS OF MANUSCRIPTS AND OF THE PRINTED TEXT 1 A It has already been stated that all that we know certainly about the ownership of A is that it bears the monogram of James Grenehalgh, and that this does not necessarily mean that A was in the Sheen monastic library or privately owned there. [...] The prefatory epistle To the Reader' in the Cressy 1670 edition states that it has been produced at the expense of 'a more Venerable Abbot of our Nation'; and there is a marginal note to this, The V(ery) R(everend) F(ather)Jo(hn) Guscoyn L(ord) Abbot of Lambspring'.
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- Includes bibliographical references (pt. 2, p. 761-773) and indexes
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- Text of the Revelations of divine love. Short text edited from MS BM additional 37790; long text edited from MS BN Fonds anglais 40, collated with MSS BM Sloane 2499 and 3705, Westminster Archdiocesan Archives and Upholland Seminary Library, and with the 1670 Serenus Cressy printed ed Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- J8 1978beb
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Table of Contents
- PART ONE 2
- TABLE OF CONTENTS 6
- PREFACE 8
- SIGLA OF MANUSCRIPTS AND OTHER ABBREVIATIONS 9
- INTRODUCTION 10
- I: Description of Manuscripts and of the Cressy Printed Text 10
- 1 A: London, MS British Museum Additional 37790 10
- 2 C: the Cressy printed text 15
- 3 P: Paris, MS Bibliothèque Nationale Fonds anglais 40 15
- 4 S1: London, MS British Museum Sloane 2499 17
- 5 S2: London, MS British Museum Sloane 3705 17
- 6 U: MS St. Joseph’s College, Upholland 9 18
- 7 W: London, Westminster Archdiocesan Archives MS 18
- II: Scribes and Owners of Manuscripts and of the Printed Text 19
- 1 A 19
- 2 C: Serenus Cressy 21
- 3 Seventeenth-Century Copies of the Long Text 24
- III: Relations Between the Short and Long Texts 27
- IV: Relations Between the Long Text Witnesses 34
- V: Linguistic Characteristics of the Manuscripts 37
- 1 The Language of A 37
- 2 The Language of the Long-Text Copies 41
- VI: Julian: Biographical Data 42
- VII: Norwich in Julian's Age 48
- VIII: Julian’s Intellectual Formation 52
- IX: Theological Content of the Revelations 68
- 1 The Short and Long Texts Compared 68
- 2 Criteria of Analysis 76
- 3 Revelation I 80
- 4 Revelation II 90
- 5 Revelation III 92
- 6 Revelation IV 94
- 7 Revelation V 96
- 8 Revelation VI 97
- 9 Revelation VII 99
- 10 Revelation VIII 101
- 11 Revelation IX 106
- 12 Revelation X 108
- 13 Revelation XI 109
- 14 Revelation XII 110
- 15 Revelation XIII 111
- 16 Revelation XIV 122
- 17 Revelation XV 171
- 18 Revelation XVI 177
- 19 Conclusion 205
- A BOOK OF SHOWINGS 208
- THE SHORT TEXT 208
- PART TWO 288
- SIGLA OF MANUSCRIPTS AND OTHER ABBREVIATIONS 293
- A BOOK OF SHOWINGS 294
- THE LONG TEXT 294
- APPENDIX: RHETORICAL FIGURES EMPLOYED 750
- GLOSSARY 764
- A 764
- B 764
- C 765
- D 766
- E 766
- F 767
- G 768
- H 768
- I 768
- J 769
- K 769
- L 769
- M 770
- N 770
- O 771
- P 771
- Q 771
- R 771
- S 772
- T 773
- V 773
- W 774
- Y 775
- BIBLIOGRAPHY 776
- INDEX OF AUTHORS AND TITLES 790
- A 790
- B 790
- C 790
- D 791
- E 791
- F 791
- G 791
- H 791
- I 791
- J 791
- L 791
- M 792
- N 792
- O 792
- P 792
- Q 792
- R 792
- S 792
- T 792
- V 792
- W 792
- INDEX OF SCRIPTURAL CITATIONS 794
- INDEX OF MANUSCRIPTS CITED 804
