A Hitherto Unidentified Middle English Translation of ‘Les Quatre Requêtes de Notre-Dame à Jésus’статья из журнала
Аннотация: A short text treating the four requests made by the Virgin Mary to her son on the Wednesday night immediately before the Crucifixion—pleas that he should not make her witness his painful death—survives in two similar copies from the close of the fifteenth century: Cambridge, University Library, MS Ff.vi.33 (F), fos 33r–37r, and Magdalene College, Pepys Library, MS 2125 (P), fos 144r–145r.1 The former codex, MS F, is a small anthology written by William Darker of the Sheen Charterhouse, probably for the Bridgettine monastery of Syon;2 it includes the Rule of St Saviour delivered to St Bridget of Sweden, and translations of St Augustine’s Regula ad servos Dei, the Carthusian Scala Claustralium and the Benjamin Minor of Richard of St Victor.3 The latter, MS P, was originally a more private, devotional miscellany, comprising over fifty items, including: two partial translations of the Ps-Bonaventuran Meditationes vitae Christi (around the mid-fourteenth century, hereafter MVC);4The Chastising of God’s Children; multiple copies of Richard Rolle’s three English writings (as six items); prayers with indulgences; and other popular religious texts commonly found in similar devotional compilations, such as the Vernon and Simeon sister manuscripts, Oxford, University College 98 and British Library, Harley 2398.5 The thematic thread through these texts concerns penitence and the love of Jesus; a religious house most likely owned the manuscript at the same time as the integration of this text into the manuscript.6 This article introduces this little-known text, titled ‘Of iiij requestes of Oure Lady made to hyr sone Ihesu’ in the F copy (hereafter FR), along with its hitherto unidentified source, a dialogue usually called ‘Les quatre requêtes de Notre-Dame à Jésus’ (hereafter QR). This dialogue occurs in an anonymous Passion narrative allegedly translated from Latin in 1398 at the request of Isabeau de Bavière, Queen Consort of Charles VI of France (1385–1422) (conventionally the Passion Isabeau, hereafter PI).7
Год издания: 2015
Авторы: Mayumi Taguchi
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Источник: Notes and Queries
Ключевые слова: Medieval Literature and History, Reformation and Early Modern Christianity, Historical Studies of British Isles
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Том: 62
Выпуск: 3
Страницы: 364–372