History of the Vulgate in England from Alcuin to Roger Bacon
Being an Inquiry into the text of some English Manuscripts of the Vulgate Gospels

A 1933 investigation into gospel manuscripts and the alterations to which St Jerome's text was subject in the Middle Ages.

H. H. Glunz (Author)

9780521170758, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 14 April 2011

404 pages
21.6 x 14 x 2.3 cm, 0.51 kg

The author of this 1933 text examines a wide selection of gospel manuscripts in English libraries, ranging in date from the eighth to the fourteenth century, with a view to explaining the alterations to which St Jerome's text was subject in the Middle Ages. The investigation not only sheds light on the structure of scholastic thought, but it also reveals clearly the successive stages in which, during the period of its formation, the scholastic method of exegesis reached the English Church.

Preface
Classified list of gospel manuscripts
1. Difference between the earlier and the later history of the Vulgate text
2. Last currents of the ancient textual tradition on the continent and in England
3. The early scholastic method of interpretation and its influence on the Vulgate text
4. Lafranc and the replacement of the ancient English types by the text of the universal church
5. Twelfth-century hermeneutics and the scholastic text of Peter the Lombard
6. Stabilisation of the scholastic text in the thirteenth century
Appendices
Index of MSS
Index of gospel passages
Index of proper names.

Subject Areas: Church history [HRCC2]