Benvenutus Grassus' On the well-proven art of the eye

This book contains the extant tradition of Benvenutus Grassus' Treatise on the eye and six philological related studies. The tradition in Latin (Metz, Bibliothèques- Médiatèques, MS 176) is displayed with the four known versions in Middle English (Glasgow, Glasgow University Library, Hunter MSS 503 and 513); London, British Library, Sloane MS 661, and Oxford, Bodleian Library, Ashmole MS 1468) along with one in Provençal (Basel, Öffentliche Bibliothek der Universität, MS D.II.11). The diplomatic transcriptions of the manuscripts are synoptically arranged to ease the researchers' consultation and comparison. The philological studies deal with the versions of the Latin tradition and with the common and diverging features of the English vernacular tradition, mainly in the Hunter MSS. Both the synoptic edition and the philological studies are the result of a collaborative edition and joint research on Hunter MSS providing a state-of-the-art approach to the treatises.

Autorentext

Antonio Miranda-García is Reader of English Philology at the University of Málaga. He is the leading researcher of a project for the electronic edition and compilation of an annotated corpus of late Middle English scientific prose, and is currently developing an automatic POS-tagger of Middle English texts. He has also a research interest in Authorship Attribution. Santiago González Fernández-Corugedo is Professor of English Philology at the University of Oviedo. His main fields of study are philology, historical linguistics, phonetics and phonology, and medieval studies. He has also a keen interest in international cooperation issues, and has chaired the Spanish Society for Medieval Language and Literature whose journal he has co-edited since 1989.

Inhalt

Contents: Santiago González: Prologue - Laurence M. Eldredge: The Latin Manuscripts of Benvenutus Grassus' Treatise on Diseases and Injuries to the Eye - Javier Calle Martín: Through the Looking Glass: The Palaeography of Benvenutus Grassus' English Vernacular Tradition - Teresa Marqués Aguado: Depunctuating the Middle English Benvenutus Grassus: The Cases of GUL, MSS Hunter 503 and 513 - Laura Esteban-Segura: Syntactic Aspects of MSS Hunter 503 and 513: Relatives and Negation - Alejandro Alcaraz Sintes: A Textual Analysis of MSS Hunter 503 and 513 - Antonio Miranda García: Setting MSS Hunter 503 and 513 apart: A Quantitative Analysis - David Moreno Olalla: Foreword to the Synoptic Edition - Laurence M. Eldredge/David Moreno Olalla/Teresa Marqués Aguado: Benvenutus Grassus' De probatissima arte oculorum: A Synoptic Edition.