Richard Rolle: The Fifteenth-Century Translations

390 Pages·2018·2.748 MB·English

by  Tamás Karáth

Richard Rolle
MEDIEVAL CHURCH STUDIES
Editorial Board under the auspices of the
Department of History, University of Nottingham
Ross Balzaretti, Peter Darby, Rob Lutton, Claire Taylor
Previously published volumes in this series are listed at the back of the book.
Volume 40
Richard Rolle
The Fifteenth-Century Translations
Tamás Karáth
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ISBN 978-2-503-57769-2
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DOI 10.1484/M.MCS-EB.5.114127
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Contents
List of Illustrations vii
Acknowledgements ix
Abbreviations xi
Introduction 1
Chapter 1. Rolle in Hindsight: Legacy and Translations 13
Richard Rolle and his Mystical Experience 13
Fourteenth-Century Criticism of Rolle’s Mysticism 21
Rolle and/in Translation 26
Chapter 2. The Latin Translations of Ego dormio and The Form of Living 35
The Latin Ego dormio: Text, Manuscripts, and Translation 35
Author/Speaker and Addressee in the Latin Ego dormio 42
Rolle’s Ego dormio in the Cloister 49
The Latin Ego dormio and Universal Salvation 57
An Afterthought: The Latin Translation of The Form of Living 73
Chapter 3. Richard Misyn’s Translation of Incendium amoris 77
Richard Misyn: Hermit and Prelate 78
The Manuscripts of Misyn’s Fire of Love 89
Misyn as Translator 109
Misyn as Editor 121
Misyn’s Purpose of Text 133
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Chapter 4. The English Translations of Rolle’s Emendatio vite 141
Readers and Uses of the English Versions of the Emendatio
on the Basis of Manuscript Evidence 147
Hiding Translators: Characteristics of the Textual Strategies 162
Theological Speculations in the English Translations of the Emendatio 212
The Taming of Rolle: Overwriting Affects in the Translations 224
Conclusion 239
Appendix I. Additions in Misyn’s Translation of Incendium amoris 245
Appendix II. Omissions in Misyn’s Translation of Incendium amoris 257
Appendix III. Different Meanings and Errors in Misyn’s Translation
of Incendium amoris 271
Appendix IV. Translations of Rolle’s Key Terms Related to
calor in Misyn’s Incendium amoris 289
Appendix V. Misyn’s Translation of Rolle’s Emendatio vite: Calor,
canor, and the Bodily Responses to Emotional Fervour 307
Appendix VI. Omissions and Additions in the Version C Translation of
Emendatio vite (New Haven, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript
Library, Takamiya Collection, MS 66) 313
Appendix VII. The Version F Translation of Rolle’s Emendatio vite 343
Works Cited 351
Index of Manuscripts 365
General Index 367
List of Illustrations
Figures
Figure 1. ‘Richarde heremita’, BL, MS Cotton Faustina B.VI, fol. 8v.
Mid-fifteenth century. 7
Figure 2. ‘Richard hampole’, BL, MS Additional 37049, fol. 52v.
1460–1500. 8
Figure 3. ‘Unidentified portrait’, BL, MS Stowe 39, fol. 16v. First half
of the fifteenth century. 9
Figure 4. ‘Master and disciple’, BL, MS Additional 37049, fol. 85r.
1460–1500. 67
Figure 5. ‘Master and disciple’, BL, MS Additional 37049, fol. 85v.
1460–1500. 67
Figure 6. ‘Scholar in a cathedra’, BL, MS Additional 37049, fol. 86v.
1460–1500. 68
Figure 7. ‘Student and master’, BL, MS Additional 37049, fol. 87v.
1460–1500. 68
Figure 8. ‘Student and master’, BL, MS Additional 37049, fol. 89v.
1460–1500. 69
Figure 9. ‘Student and master’, BL, MS Additional 37049, fol. 96r.
1460–1500. 69
viii list of illustrations
Tables
Table 1. The revisions of references to the addressee in CUL, MS Dd.5.64. 44
Table 2. Misyn’s translations of ardor and feruor. 117
Table 3. Misyn’s translations of sighs in Rolle’s Incendium. 131
Table 4. Dramatic effects in the Version A translation of Emendatio vite. 163
Table 5. Translations of jubilus and its derivatives in Version B. 228
Table 6. The occurrences and distribution of expressions of sighs and
tears in Chapter 12 of Emendatio vite. 233