Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Augustine’s Confessions
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- The Cambridge Companion to Augustine’s Confessions
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Circumstances of Composition
- Part II Main Themes and Topics
- Part III Reception and Reading Strategies
- 15 Manuscript Transmission, Critical Editions, and English Translations
- 16 Reception in the Middle Ages
- 17 Reception in the Period of Reformations
- 18 Reception during the Enlightenment
- 19 Reading (in) Augustine’s Confessions
- A Bibliographical Note
- Index
- Other Titles in the Series (continued from page ii)
- References
15 - Manuscript Transmission, Critical Editions, and English Translations
from Part III - Reception and Reading Strategies
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 February 2020
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Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Augustine’s Confessions
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- The Cambridge Companion to Augustine’s Confessions
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Circumstances of Composition
- Part II Main Themes and Topics
- Part III Reception and Reading Strategies
- 15 Manuscript Transmission, Critical Editions, and English Translations
- 16 Reception in the Middle Ages
- 17 Reception in the Period of Reformations
- 18 Reception during the Enlightenment
- 19 Reading (in) Augustine’s Confessions
- A Bibliographical Note
- Index
- Other Titles in the Series (continued from page ii)
- References
Summary
This chapter presents an overview of the earliest transmission of “Confessions” and discusses the different hypotheses that have been proposed with regard to the stemmatical relations between the work’s oldest manuscript witnesses. It also offers a systematic overview of the existing critical editions and English translations.
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- The Cambridge Companion to Augustine's 'Confessions' , pp. 245 - 262Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020
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Further Reading
Alexanderson, B. Le texte des Confessions de saint Augustin. Manuscrits et stemma. Acta Regiae Societatis Scientiarum Litterarum Gothoburgiensis 42. Göteborg: Kungl. Vetenskaps- och Vitterhets-Samhället, 2003.Google Scholar
Gorman, M. M. “The Early Manuscript Tradition of St. Augustine’s Confessiones.” Journal of Theological Studies 34 (1983), 114–145 = M. M. Gorman, The Manuscript Traditions of the Works of St Augustine. Millennio Medievale 27. Firenze: SISMEL, Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2001, 216–247.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Petitmengin, P. “Éditions princeps et Opera omnia de saint Augustin.” In Augustinus in der Neuzeit, eds. de Courcelles, D. et al. Turnhout: Brepols, 1998, 33–51.Google Scholar
Petitmengin, P. Sancti Augustini Confessionum libri XIII, ed. Verheijen, L., CCL 27 (Turnhout: Brepols, 1981), v–xci.Google Scholar
Vessey, M. “Saint Augustine: Confessions.” Augustinian Studies 24 (1993), 163–181.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Webber, T. “The Diffusion of Augustine’s Confessions in England during the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries.” In The Cloister and the World: Essays in Medieval History in Honour of Barbara Harvey, eds. Blair, J., et al. Oxford: Clarendon, 1996, 29–45.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Weber, D. “Confessiones.” In OGHRA, vol. 1, 167–174.Google Scholar