Analecta Dublinensia : three medieval Latin texts in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin

264 Pages·1975·13.842 MB·English

by  Colker, Marvin L.

THE MEDIAEVAL ACADEMY OF AMERICA
PUBLICATION NO. 82
ANALECTA DVBLINENSIA

ANALECTA DVBLINENSIA
THREE MEDIEVAL LATIN TEXTS IN THE LIBRARY
OF TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN
edited by
MARVIN L. COLKER
The University of Virginia
THE MEDIAEVAL ACADEMY OF AMERICA
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS
1975
The publication of this book was made possible by grants of funds
to the Mediaeval Academy from the Carnegie Corporation of New York
Copyright ©1975
By The Mediaeval Academy of America
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 75-1954
ISBN 910956-56-1
Printed in the United States of America
To Philip Ian Colker
This Book Is Dedicated
Contents
Preface 1
1. CONTRA RELIGIONIS SIMVLATORES
Introduction 5
Summary 9
Text 17
Notes 52
Index Nominum 59
Index Rerum Memorabilium 60
Index Auctorum et Operum Romanorum
ac Medii Aeui Citatorum 62
2. EPISTOLAE AD AMICVM AND THREE POEMS
Introduction 65
Summary 75
Text 91
Appendices 161 & 162
Notes 164
Index Nominum 173
Index Rerum Memorabilium 174
Index Verborum uel Significationum Inusitatiorum 177
Index Auctorum et Operum Romanorum
ac Medii Aeui Citatorum 178
CONTENTS
3. A COLLECTION OF STORIES AND SKETCHES:
PETRONIVS REDIVIVVS
Introduction 181
Summary 189
Text 195
Notes 236
Index Nominum 253
Index Rerum Memorabilium 254
Index Verborum uel Significationum Inusitatiorum 256
Index Auctorum et Operum Romanorum
ac Medii Aeui Citatorum 257
Preface
OVER the past decade I have been privileged to work on the re-cataloging of the
medieval Latin manuscripts at Trinity College Dublin. In the course of this
effort, I came upon three unpublished medieval Latin texts that were of out-
standing literary merit: a vigorous dialogue about the hypocrisy of sinful monks,
which provides valuable insights into the psychology of monks who have strayed
from the monastic ideal; a series of letters which reveal internal politics at the
monastery of St Albans and narrate the sufferings of a student persecuted by his
jealous teacher; and a collection of mainly realistic and often racy stories which
derive much of their language from Petronius-the collection also contains
critical descriptions of various segments of medieval society.
Through Analecta Dublinensia I wish to share with the reader these three
remarkable texts, each of which, when generally known, should attain the status
of a medieval classic. I transcribed them directly from the Dublin manuscripts; in
the case of the letters, I depended upon an extremely clear microfilm for my
collation of the Hereford manuscript, which is probably a copy of the Dublin
manuscript. To provide ease of citation I divide the Latin texts into sections,
marked by numbers inserted in square brackets. As closely as possible I adhere
to the orthography, but not to the capitalization or punctuation, of the Dublin
manuscripts. Square brackets in the texts are used to set off scribal errors which
should be disregarded, whereas angular brackets enclose my editorial additions.
There remains the pleasant duty to thank the authorities of Trinity College
Dublin and of Hereford Cathedral who have permitted the use of their manu-
scripts, and to name gratefully the sources of the generous grants which enabled
me to carry on the cataloging at Trinity College Dublin: Trinity Trust, the
University of Dublin Fund, the University of Virginia, the American Philosophi-
cal Society, the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endow-
ment for the Humanities, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial
Foundation. I am indebted, for very helpful comments, to Paul Meyvaert,
Executive Secretary of the Mediaeval Academy of America, to Giles Constable,
Professor of History at Harvard University, and to William O'Sullivan, Keeper of
Manuscripts at Trinity College, Dublin.
Marvin L. Colker
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