Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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The Wind Diagram in London, British Library, Add. MS 18929: Analysis and Edition

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The article analyses the content of the wind diagram which appears at the end of Burchard of Mount Sion’s Descriptio Terrae Sanctae in London, British Library, Add. MS 18929 (Lo2). The diagram, although mentioned in numerous articles, has not been thoroughly studied.
In particular, no scholarly attention has been devoted to the connection between the diagram and the text of the Descriptio. The present article is intended to ﬁll this lacuna. It also attempts to locate the various place names provided by the diagram on a modern map, in order to explore the spatial logic which guided its maker. An appendix includes an annotated edition of the wind diagram.

Some Comments on the Manuscript Tradition of the Short Version

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This short paper is meant to shed light on the textual tradition of the SV, which had hitherto received limited attention. It shows that among the twenty-nine extant witnesses of this redaction, two are particularly close to the archetype and must therefore be given considerable weight in any future attempts to edit this work: Wr2 and Mu5.

Handschriften- und Siglenverzeichnis der Descriptio Terrae Sanctae

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This list presents all known manuscripts of Burchard’s Descriptio and assigns a siglum to each of them. A short introduction discusses three aspects of the list’s production: its genesis and conception, the choice of sigla, and some challenges posed by the manuscript transmission.

Paul Schneevogels erstes gedrucktes Gesprächsbuch, der Thezaurus eloquencie für junge Bakkalare, zusammengestellt im Sommer 1483

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Oliver Humberg: The Thezaurus eloquencie, the First Colloquial Book for Young Graduates by Paulus Niavis to Have Been Printed, Com-posed in Summer 1483. A Critical Edition. Paulus Niavis or Schneevogel published ﬁve Latin colloquial books for learners of different ages and needs. The presumably oldest one does not bear the title Latinum Ydeoma, as the subsequent ones do, but rather Thezaurus eloquencie.
This book addresses the communicative needs of young graduates, including travelling, applying for and starting careers as schoolmasters or city clerks, investing money in silver mines, sharing university life with roommates, communicating with other scholars, mostly priests, and ﬁnally discussing the possible adoption of monastic life. This paper provides an overview of the book’s content, relates its individual parts to other works by Niavis, presents the few sections that have been discussed so far, scrutinizes the textual transmission and its stemma and offers the ﬁrst critical edition of the Thezaurus along with historical annotations. This provides a reliable textual basis to evaluate the source’s value for the history of scholars’ life in the late 15th century.

Oxford, MS Bodl. 292: A New Witness for Konrad von Mure’s Novus Graecismus

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This article identiﬁes a new witness for part of Konrad von Mure’s thirteenth-century pedagogical treatise, Novus Graecismus, in Oxford, MS Bodl. 292. Further evidence is also adduced for the identiﬁcation of the scribe of the relevant part of this manuscript, known as ›V.f.I.‹, as someone from the German-speaking world. A series of textual and interpretative issues from Konrad’s Novus Graecismus are then discussed, focussing on lines 9.713, 9.714, 9.721, 9.723– 7 24, 9.741, 9.776, 9.796 – 797, 9.799 – 800, 9.812 – 814, 9.843 – 844, 9.852 – 853, 9.877 – 879, 9.886 – 887, 9.889, 9.917, 9.924– 9 25, 9.927, 9.973– 975, 9.990 – 992, 9.1014, 9.1020 – 1022; further remarks are made on 8.1111 – 1112, 9.768, 9.772, and 9.824.