William Touris OFM, the Contemplacioun of Synnaris : Late-medieval Advice to a Prince (Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions / Texts and Sources)

MacDonald, Alasdair A./ McDonald, J. Craig

Brill（2022/05発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 456 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004256965
• DDC分類 821.2

Full Description

The Contemplacioun of Synnaris, by the Observant Franciscan William Touris, written c.1494 and evidently intended for King James IV of Scotland, is a significant and much copied work of Older Scots, although the earliest surviving witness is the English print by Wynkyn de Worde (1499).

The Contemplacioun was the very first work of Older Scots literature to be translated and to be printed. The poem's seven sections comprise a course of meditations for Holy Week. Richard Fox, bishop of Durham, commissioned the English print, in which the stanzas were preceded by Latin sententiae, biblical, medieval and ancient. The work retained sufficient interest to re-emerge in separate versions in both Scotland (1568) and England (1578), drastically revised for Protestant readers.

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

List of Figures and Tables

Abbreviations

Introduction

1 Editing the Text

2 Origins and Contexts

3 The CS as Literature

4 1499—The Latin catenae

5 1578—A Dyall of Dayly Contemplacion

Bibliography

Texts

Treatment of Texts

 1 Scots

 2 Latin

 3 Translations of Sententiae

Prologue (1499)

Poem and Catenae

Textual Notes: Poem

 1 Textual Notes Pertaining to the Scottish Manuscripts

 2 Textual Notes Pertaining to the 1499 English Print

Emendations: Sententiae

Commentary, Sources, Glossary

Commentary: Poem

Sources: Sententiae

Glossary

Index