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Turnhout Brepols 1993. hardback, LVI+274 p., 155 x 245 mm. ISBN 9782503041810. Written in 1159, the full text of Policraticus survives in over 60 manuscripts. This new critical edition is the first to examine all the surviving twelfth and thirteenth century manuscripts, as well as some later ones. The text is based on 11 manuscripts, ranging in date from c. 1160 to 1406. The detailed examination of the manuscripts and the manuscript tradition in the Introduction isolates two authorial versions of the text. Both versions were recorded in London BL Royal 13 D IV, the earliest and most authoritative of the extants manuscripts. This manuscript was used by the last editor, C.C.J. Webb, for his 1909 edition, but his preference for MS Corpus Christi College, Cambridge 48 meant that in effect he printed the earlier version of the text. The evidence of Royal 13 D IV suggests that Salisbury revised the text to produce his second version before he went into exile in 1166. The evidence of two later manuscripts…
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- Title Corpus Christianorum. Ioannes Saresberiensis Policraticus I-IV,
- Author K.S.B. Keats-Rohan (ed.);
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- Publisher Turnhout Brepols 1993
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