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T1 Fr. Augustine Baker O.S.B: Vox Clamantis in Deserto Animae. Edited by John Clark. Pp. xvi + 207. Illustrated. (Analecta Cartusiana, 119:22.) Salzburg: Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, 2004. isbn 3 900033 23 4. Paper €40
JF The journal of theological studies
VO 57
IS 2
SP 788
OP 790
A1 Gribbin, Anselm J.
A1 Szuromi, Szabolcs Anzelm 1972-
A2 Szuromi, Szabolcs Anzelm 1972-
LA English
YR 2006
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1783719656
AB John Clark's editorial work on the writings of Dom Augustine Baker (1575–1641) continues apace, with the first printed edition of Vox Clamantis in Deserto Animae. This work was written by Baker for the English Benedictine nuns of Cambrai, prior to leaving the convent: he acted as the nuns’ chaplain from 1624 to 1633. Clark has utilized four seventeenth-century copies of the text, manuscripts containing extracts, and later transcriptions, though his edition is based primarily on Downside Abbey MS 26602, which Abbot Justin McCann dated c.1650. Although this is not the earliest copy of Vox Clamantis, great care was made in copying it from the lost original, and it conforms with other seventeenth-century copies.
K1 Rezension
DO 10.1093/jts/fll052