Pepysian Meditations on the passion of Christ
By: edited from Cambridge, Magdalene College MS Pepys 2125 by Mayumi Taguchi and Yoko Iyeiri
Contributors: Magdalene College (University of Cambridge)
Series: Middle English texts -- 56; Middle English texts -- 56.
Publisher: Universitätsverlag Winter
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Heidelberg
Language: eng; enm
Number of pages: 94
ISBN-13: 9783825346300
Copyright date: 2019
Subjects: Meditations; Early works to 1800; Passion; Passion of Jesus Christ
Other titles: Meditationes vitae Christi. Meditationes de passione Christi. English (Middle English)
Description: The Middle English prose '' Pepysian Meditations on the Passion of Christ" (PMPC) survives uniquely in Cambridge, Magdalene College, MS Pepys 2125 and has not previously been published. It is one of several Middle English translations of the Passion sequence of the pseudo-Bonaventuran Latin "Meditationes Vitae Christi?"(MVC). This part of the MVC circulated independently and in this form is known in modern scholarship as the "Meditationes de Passione Christi" (MPC). The editors argue that although the Middle English version in Pepys 2125 followed the model of the MPC, it is probable that the translation derives directly from a recension of the MPC. Although the translator handles the original with a degree of freedom, the text is not indebted to other sources. The Introduction includes an extensive description of the manuscript which is a late medieval devotional miscellany, and a detailed account of the language of the PMPC. It also addresses the textual tradition out of which the PMPC grew and the work of the translator. The edited text is followed by a commentary, glossary and bibliography --
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [80]-94).

Includes text of Middle English version of Meditationes de passione Christi.