French Devotional Texts of the Middle Ages: A Bibliographic Manuscript Guide; Second Supplement

by Keith V. Sinclair (Editor)

Overview

This work updates and expands upon the initial volume and the first supplement of Sinclair's now-standard reference, French Devotional Texts of the Middle Ages (Greenwood Press, 1979, 1982). The present work makes available for the first time information about 1500 unrecorded medieval French vernacular devotional texts. Each entry includes details of the text's subject matter, typological structure, location in manuscript, and edition, along with critical commentary. This second supplement also contains new information that has been discovered since the publication of the initial volume in 1979 concerning incipits 2379-5372.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313262760
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	03/21/1988
Pages:	413
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.94(d)

About the Author

KEITH V. SINCLAIR is Professor of French and Chairman of the Department of Modern Languages at James Cook University of North Queensland in Australia.

Table of Contents

Preface
Bibliography
Abbreviation
Additions and Corrections to Incipits 2379-5372
Incipits 5376-6875
Index Manuscripts
Index of Individual Owners
Index of Authors and Translators
Index of Saints, Blessed and Biblical Personages
Index of Subjects and Titles