Verse Epigrams Added to Peter Riga’s Aurora from Olomouc
Manuscript Olomouc, Vědecká knihovna, MS M I 306 is an early-thirteenth-century Carthusian manuscript containing the Old Testament of Peter Riga’s Aurora in its third and final medieval version before additional revision was effected by Aegidius of Paris or any other anonymous corrector (fols 4r-124...
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| Language: | English |
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Brepols
2016
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Sacris erudiri
Year: 2016, Volume: 55, Pages: 391-418 |
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| Summary: | Manuscript Olomouc, Vědecká knihovna, MS M I 306 is an early-thirteenth-century Carthusian manuscript containing the Old Testament of Peter Riga’s Aurora in its third and final medieval version before additional revision was effected by Aegidius of Paris or any other anonymous corrector (fols 4r-124r). The two old-testament books that belong to the third version, i.e. Liber Iob and Cantica Canticorum, were appended after the books of second version (fols 125r-157r), and between these two clearly defined sections a short collection of verse epigrams was entered gradually by seven hands that are all different from the one that wrote Riga’s text (fol. 124rv). In addition, further poetry was scribbled in a haphazard manner on the last folio of the manuscript (fol. 158v), edited as an appendix. This article presents a critical edition of the poetic anthology form Olomouc (50 pieces, 102 verses) as well as a brief study of its contents, compositional aims and relationship with other collections of the same type. The compilation comprises mostly proverbial sentences that in many cases can be identified as excerpts from works by major classical and medieval authors. Added to the proverbs are also a few well-known riddles. The generally uniform character of the pieces in this anthology suggests that the various compilers had a similar idea of what kind of verses should be selected and added to the already existing ones. Thus, even though it had started as space filler, this literary construct raises some interesting questions about our understanding of the creative processes involved in the medieval anthologizing habit. |
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| ISSN: | 2295-9025 |
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1484/J.SE.5.112607 |