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The Old French Versified Apocalypse of the Kerr Manuscript

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

H. A. Todd
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The subject of the mediaeval French versions of the Apocalypse or Revelation of Saint John the Divine, which closes the canon of Sacred Scripture, has recently been brought prominently to the attention of scholars by two important publications of the Société des Anciens Textes Français, both appearing in the year 1901. The first of these is entitled L'Apocalypse en français au xiiie esiècle, published by Léopold Delisle and Paul Meyer. The portion contributed by M. Delisle consists of an extensive study of the manuscript and tapestry illustrations to the Apocalypse which were produced with such elaborateness in the Middle Ages, and of a disquisition upon the various mediaeval commentaries on the Apocalypse; while the portion due to Professor Meyer is devoted to a treatise on the French prose versions of the Apocalypse, together with an edition of the prose translation contained in the MS. of the National Library in Paris quoted as fr. 403 (the best MS. of the prose version), accompanied by the Latin version in parallel columns, and by a detailed commentary in Old French.

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Research Article
Information
PMLA , Volume 18 , Issue 4 , 1903 , pp. 535 - 577
Copyright
Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1903

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1 The rimed version is preserved in seven mss., those of Corpus Christi, Cambridge; Magdalene College, Cambridge; Copenhagen; the British Museum Roy. 2 D. xiii.; British Museum, Add. 18633; the Municipal Library of Toulouse; and the private library of Mr. MacLean, of Tunbridge Wells, England, and, as above stated, was published in provisional form by Paul Meyer in the Romania in 1896.

1 To Mr. Ostrander I leave the technical description of the ms.

2 Since the text of the poem was in type I have discovered the lack of a rime to verse 456, which, from this point, vitiates by a unit the verse-numbering of the poem.