A Scholarly Edition of the "Gamaliel" (Valencia: Juan Jofre, 1525)

252 Pages·2020·1.804 MB·English, Spanish

by  Laura Delbrugge

AScholarlyEditionoftheGamaliel(Valencia:JuanJofre,1525)
The Medieval and Early Modern
Iberian World
Editedby
LarryJ.Simon(WesternMichiganUniversity)
GerardWiegers(UniversityofAmsterdam)
ArieSchippers(UniversityofAmsterdam)
IsidroJ.Rivera(UniversityofKansas)
MercedesGarcía-Arenal(CCHS/CSIC)
MontserratPiera(TempleUniversity)
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A Scholarly Edition
of the Gamaliel
(Valencia: Juan Jofre, 1525)
By
LauraDelbrugge
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Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Part 1
Introduction
IntroductionandCulturalContextoftheGamaliel 3
1 OriginandContentoftheGamaliel 3
2 BookOne:ThePassionofChrist 4
3 BookTwo:TheDestructionofJerusalem 7
3.1 TextualDisseminationoftheGamaliel’sDestructionofJerusalem
Legend 11
4 BookThree:AdditionalDevotionalNarrativesintheGamaliel 16
4.1 BookThree,ChaptersOnethroughFour:Lazarus,MaryMagdalene,
andMartha,SiblingsandNativesofJerusalem,andaConversation
betweenLazarusandtheVirginMary 16
4.2 BookThree,ChaptersFivethroughEight:ADialoguebetweenChrist
andtheVirginMarybeforetheCrucifixion 18
4.3 BookThree,ChapterTen:TheMakingoftheCrownofThorns 19
4.4 BookThree,ChapterEleven:TheFlighttoEgypt 22
4.5 BookThree,ChapterTwelve:TheDeathoftheInnocents 23
4.6 ChaptersThirteenthroughSixteen:JohntheBaptistandtheBaptism
ofChrist 24
4.7 PenultimateChapter:AShortLetterfromPubliusLentulus(Publio
Lentulo),AmbassadortoJudea,totheRomanSenateaboutJesus
Christ 25
4.8 FinalChapter:ASermonbySaintJerome 27
5 FifteenthandSixteenthCenturyEditionsoftheGamaliel 28
5.1 CatalanEditions 28
5.2 SpanishEditions 32
5.3 BibliographicGhosts 48
5.4 PortugueseEditions 49
6 TheGamaliel:PopularDevotionalasProfitableIncunable 49
7 TheGamalielasApocryphalText 55
8 TheGamalielasAnti-SemiticText 70
9 PontiusPilateintheGamaliel 72
viii contents
Part 2
Edition
EditorialPrinciples 85
1 EditorialCriteria 85
2 ResolutionofAbbreviations 85
3 SpellingandWordDivision 85
4 CapitalizationandPunctuation 87
5 Text-cuts 87
AScholarlyEditionoftheGamaliel(Valencia:JuanJofre,1525) 88
Appendix 217
Bibliography 227
Index 235