Category: Poetry
We see in these examples, selected as fairly typical, that some of the variants have evidently the character of errors, while in other cases the difference of reading is due to an alternative version. The circumstances, however, of these two cases are not distinguishable, the...
We see in these examples, selected as fairly typical, that some of the variants have evidently the character of errors, while in other cases the difference of reading is due to...
2. v. 7701-7746, three of them are found in AdBTΛP₂ only, and are omittedin SΔ[AG], viz. v. 7015*-7036*, vii. 2329*-2340* and 3149*-3180*. Then, as regards the text generally, the five MSS. first mentioned all have connexions of various kinds with th...
3. v. 6280) AdBT is a group which is very frequently found in specialPassing now to the third recension, which has the preface and epilogue as in Λ and S, but excludes the additional passages, we find it represented by eight manuscripts, with Fai...
4. iv. 2501-2684 comes after 2864, then follows 3049-3232, then 2865-3048,From the coats of arms which it contains the book would seem to have been written for Thomas Mompesson of Bathampton, sheriff of Wilts in 1478 (K. Meyer, _John Gower’s Beziehung...
5. v. 7303, where AdBT omit two lines necessary to the sense whichB. BODLEY 294, Bodleian Library (Bern. Cat. 2449). Contents, as in T, ff. 1-197 _Conf. Amantis_, &c., ff. 197-199 v^o _Traitié_, f. 199 v^o ‘Quia vnusquisque,’ ff. 199 v^o-201 _...
6. vi. 183-283 (written in K by the third hand), there are atleast twenty-five. (3) In a certain part of the third book H₃ suddenly ceases to follow the third recension text, and almost regularly gives the readings of the ERCLB₂ group. Th...
7. v. 6400 to the end he prints from a manuscript of the unrevised firstrecension, inserting however the additional passages in the seventh book and the conclusion (after the Chaucer greeting) from one of his other MSS. The account of the books ‘Qui...
8. xxxii. The story of the daughter of Paulus Emilius and her little dogis told by Valerius Maximus, _Mem._ i. 5. 3. Finally, the details of the defeat of Perseus seem to be taken from the account of a catastrophe which about the same time befell th...
9. iii. 367 tawh B[AN] On inquiry in the locality I find that Terranova, which has always had a column for its emblem, claims Guido as a native: see _Memorie Gelesi_ by Sign. S. D. Navarra, Terra...