Contributions to the textual history of theudmedieval Latin redactions of the visio pauli

摘要

No major review of the textual history and development of the mainudgroup of medieval Latin abbreviated versions, or redactions, of the Visio Pauliudhas been published since Theodore Silverstein's fundamental studies in 1935udand 1959. However, twenty-eight further witnesses of this group have come toudnotice since then, but have not been studied in detail.udThis thesis examines each of the new texts in the context of the redactionudto which they belong or are related, and their implications for the filiationudestablished by Silverstein. In the case of Redaction IV this has required theudclassification of all the witnesses of that redaction for the first time, and in theudcase of the composite redactions drawn from several individual redactions, thisudhas enabled a more precise identification of their components. In the case ofudRedaction IX one of the new texts supplies the section presently missing fromudthe published edition.udA separate volume of Appendices contains transcriptions from the mss.udof the texts examined in the thesis, together with other reference material.