Petris Comestoris Scolastica Historia: Liber Genesis. Edited by Agneta Sylwan. Pp. xc + 227. (Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis, 191.) Turnhout: Brepols, 2004. isbn 2 503 04911 7. €145
TheScolastica Historia of Peter Comestor was a success in its time, but it has waited until now for a modern edition to supersede the Madrid edition of 1699 which is reproduced in PL 198. The present edition of the dedicatory epistle, preface, and discussion of Genesis is based on eight manuscripts...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2006
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2006, Volume: 57, Issue: 1, Pages: 352-353 |
| Review of: | Scolastica historia (Turnhout : Brepols, 2005) (Evans, Gillian)
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| Summary: | TheScolastica Historia of Peter Comestor was a success in its time, but it has waited until now for a modern edition to supersede the Madrid edition of 1699 which is reproduced in PL 198. The present edition of the dedicatory epistle, preface, and discussion of Genesis is based on eight manuscripts of the twelfth century (from about 800 which survive up to the sixteenth century)., Peter Comestor had been a student of Peter Lombard in the Paris of the 1150s who remained in the schools to teach and became cancellarius between 1168 and 1178. It was during this last period that he completed the Historia, basing it on his decades of lecturing. The book is a huge compilation of biblical history, following the sequence of Scripture. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flj028 |