The Bristol Merlin : Revealing the Secrets of a Medieval Fragment (Medieval Media and Culture)

Tether, Leah/ Chuhan Campbell, Laura/ Pohl, Benjamin

Arc Humanities Press（2021/07発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 152 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781641894142
• DDC分類 843.1

Full Description

The discovery of seven manuscript fragments of the Old French Suite Vulgate du Merlin in a set of early printed books in the Bristol Central Library hit global headlines in 2019. This book contains a comprehensive study of these fascinating Arthurian fragments.

Beginning with an extensive contextual history, the authors reveal details of the fragments' origin, their importation to England, and their subsequent journey to a waste pile in a bookbinder's workshop, where they would be incorporated into the bindings of a four-volume edition of the works of Jean Gerson in the early sixteenth century. A full enquiry into the provenance of these host volumes sets out the possible routes from the bookbinder's workshop to their final home in Bristol Central Library.

Using multi-spectral imaging to read the damaged sections of text, the authors also provide a full edition and translation of the narrative contained in the fragments.

Contents

Acknowledgements
List of figures and plates
Introduction
Section 1: Context
1. Codicological and Palaeographic Analysis
2. Bindings
3. Provenance
4. Redaction, Language and Localization
Section 2: Text
1. Principles of Edition and Translation
2. Edition and Translation
Appendix: Table of concordance
Bibliography
Index