Convivium: Chris Nighman, Digital addenda/corrigenda for printed critical editions of Latin texts
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Chris Nighman, Professor of History, Wilfrid Laurier University, and Status-Only Faculty member at the Centre for Medieval Studies, visits CMS for the February 7 Convivium.
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Digital addenda / corrigenda for printed critical editions of Latin texts: Auxiliary resources for the Electronic Manipulus florum Project
Abstract
Widely regarded as the most influential Latin florilegium produced in the later Middle Ages, with more than 200 extant manuscripts and over 50 imprints from 1483 to 1887, Thomas of Ireland’s Manipulus florum has garnered growing scholarly attention in recent years since it became available as an open access critical edition. This online resource is served by the Janus Intertextuality Search Engine, which enables scholars to look forward in time to determine the reception of this florilegium in texts written after Manipulus was completed in 1306 and also look backwards in identifying Thomas of Ireland’s original and intermediate sources for about 6000 Latin textual excerpts and proverbs attributed to patristic, medieval and classical authors.
Since completing this edition project in 2013, I have employed the Janus search engine to develop three auxiliary websites that document the extensive reception of Manipulus by the authors of diverse late medieval texts: Johannes von Dambach’s theological treatise Consolatorium theologicum (ca. 1342), Giovanni Dominici’s critique of humanism Lucula noctis (1405), and Walter Bower’s work of historiography Scotichronicon (ca. 1440). While Consolatorium had never been edited previously and my online edition is based on the text’s 1492 editio princeps, both Lucula noctis and Scotichronicon had been published as critical editions during the twentieth century, so those two websites serve as addenda/corrigenda to the modern printed editions. This research presentation discusses these auxiliary resources and also my recent work on the relatively limited but nevertheless interesting reception of this florilegium in Giovanni da Legnano’s Somnium (1372), which was published in a full critical edition over twenty years ago.