The Odyssey of the Manuscripts of Helinand’s Chronicon
The second part of the essay examines the history of the three manuscripts that preserve the fragments of Helinand’s chronicle, viz. the present Mss Vat. Reg. 535 (a former Beaupré Ms), and London, BL, Cotton., Claudius B IX (a former Cambridge, King’s Hall Ms that, through the library of John Dee,...
| Published in: | Sacris erudiri |
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| Language: | English |
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Brepols
2013
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Sacris erudiri
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| Summary: | The second part of the essay examines the history of the three manuscripts that preserve the fragments of Helinand’s chronicle, viz. the present Mss Vat. Reg. 535 (a former Beaupré Ms), and London, BL, Cotton., Claudius B IX (a former Cambridge, King’s Hall Ms that, through the library of John Dee, happened to arrive in Lord Cotton’s collection), and the lost Froidmont Ms used by Tissier for his 1669 edition. This begins by presenting a synthetic and chronological analysis of the late medieval and early modern scholarship on Helinand’s chronicle, exploring the motives behind the interest in the author and his universal history. This work was largely based on the data found in Vincent’s Speculum Historiale. While French historians of the mid-sixteenth century were mainly interested in Helinand’s vernacular poem Vers de la mort, the sixteenth-century Cistercian ressourcement movement prompted the Cistercian monks Karel De Visch and Bertrand Tissier to pay serious attention to Helinand’s Latin œuvre. This resulted in an edition of the books 45-49 of Helinand’s chronicle, as well as a collection of his sermons and some minor Latin works by Tissier in 1669. The movement failed, however, to establish Helinand’s reputation as a renowned historian outside the restricted domain of the Cistercian order, for it was not until the second decade of the twentieth century that Paul Lehmann convincingly argued Helinand’s merits in the field of medieval historiography. At the beginning of the thirteenth century, the Cistercian monk Helinand of Froidmont composed a comprehensive universal history, which was intensively used by Vincent of Beauvais while compiling his Speculum Historiale and Speculum Doctrinale. To date, only the fragments of Helinand’s chronicle contained in two manuscripts and one seventeenth-century printing are available to us. |
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| ISSN: | 2295-9025 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sacris erudiri
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1484/J.SE.1.103832 |