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Appendix 1 - Notes on Editions and Manuscripts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 September 2012

Penny Eley
Affiliation:
University of Sheffield
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Except where otherwise indicated, quotations and line numbers have been taken from the Collet-Joris Lettres gothiques edition, whose text of the main body of the romance is based on MS A. This edition also presents the alternative, shorter ending and the Continuation based on MSS B, G and T. Where alternative text exists, the editors have chosen a split-page format, with the text and translation of A printed on the upper half of each verso–recto pair and the alternative text on the lower half. On split pages, line numbers for A are given in standard parentheses ( ); line numbers for BGT are given in curly brackets { }. Elsewhere, line numbers appear in square brackets [ ] for text from B used to fill lacunae in A and for vv. 12117–4590 of the Continuation. I have not followed this practice because the combination of three different styles of brackets can be very disconcerting when line numbers are integrated into continuous prose. It is normally clear from my discussion whether I am referring to the ending of MS A or MS B, or to the Continuation (readers can check the positioning of the major lacunae in A by referring to the synopsis in Appendix 2). One potentially confusing feature of the Lettres gothiques edition is that the Continuation follows on directly from the shorter B ending; this means that the first 1,460 lines of the Continuation are printed on the lower half of pages whose upper half still presents the longer A ending of the main romance. All references here to this part of the Continuation therefore indicate the lower halves of pp. 662–825.

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'Partonopeus de Blois'
Romance in the Making
, pp. 215 - 217
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Print publication year: 2011

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