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Cataloging Medieval And Renaissance Manuscripts: A Review Article, Richard Clement
Cataloging Medieval And Renaissance Manuscripts: A Review Article, Richard Clement
Richard W. Clement
Until recently it could have been argued with much justification that the cataloging of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States began and ended with Seymour De Ricci's Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (New York: H. W. Wilson, 1935-40) and Supplement (New York: Bibliographical Society of America, 1962). Of course, many excellent catalogs were produced before the Census and have been produced since (although most are of a specialized nature), yet the Census and its Supplement must be regarded as the one great landmark in cataloging in this country. It was the …
King Alfred And The Latin Manuscripts Of Gregory's Regula Pastoralis, Richard Clement
King Alfred And The Latin Manuscripts Of Gregory's Regula Pastoralis, Richard Clement
Richard W. Clement
King Alfred's translation of Pope Gregory the Great's 'Liber Regulae Pastoralis' has long been recognized by students of Anglo-Saxon literature as one of the earliest and greatest monuments of Old English prose. Alfred's first translation, commonly referred to as the 'Pastoral Care,' has been the focus of much scholarly attention by historians, philologists, and literary critics. Historians have seized upon the work more for Alfred's two prefaces and what they tell us of Ninth-century England than for the translation itself, but nonetheless the mode of translation is not without its biographical and historical implications. Philologists on the other hand have …