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Novus phisiologus : nach Hs. Darmstadt 2780
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ISSN: 00769754 ISBN: 9004088946 9789004088948 9789004473997 Year: 1989 Volume: 15 Publisher: Leiden New York Köln Brill

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The only known text witness of the Novus Phisiologus which was written between 1294 and 1298, in all probability in Germany, is the MS 2780 of the Darmstadt Library. The work cannot, despite its title, be included among the known Latin versions of the Physiologus . In contrast to the old Latin Physiologus this Novus Phisiologus leaves out the trees and stones, but on the other hand treats the animals which it and the Latin Physiologus take on board in the descriptive part but also in the allegorically interpretative part in far more depth and detail than is the case in the Latin Physiologus . The Novus Phisiologus provides a mass of detail, of which the Latin versions of the Physiologus do not even seem to be aware. The Novus Phisiologus is a poem of 1400 lines composed partly of hexameters and partly of couplets, and contains the following parts: Prologus, De homine, De quadrupedibus, De avibus, De reptilibus, De minutis animalibus and De anima.


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Ruodlieb : con gli epigrammi del Codex latinus monacensis 19486 : la formazione e le avventure del primo eroe cortese
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ISBN: 9788884500762 8884500761 Year: 2003 Volume: 19 Publisher: Tavarnuzze (Firenze) : SISMEL edizioni del Galluzzo,


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Authority and imitation : a study of the Cosmographia of Bernard Silvestris
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ISBN: 9789004256910 9789004268357 9004268359 9004256911 Year: 2014 Volume: 47 Publisher: Leiden, Netherlands : Brill,

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The Cosmographia is one of the most inventive and enigmatic works of medieval literature. Mark Kauntze argues that this allegory of creation is best understood as a product of the vibrant intellectual culture of twelfth-century France. Bernard Silvestris established the authority of his treatise by imitating those ancient philosophers and poets who were assiduously studied in the contemporary schools. But he also revised and updated them, to develop a compelling intervention into twelfth-century debates about man's place in nature and the relationship between theology and natural science. Using a wealth of manuscript evidence, Kauntze reconstructs the school context in which Bernard worked, and shows how the Cosmographia itself became an object of scholarly annotation and imitation in the later Middle Ages.

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