Notes

Collection: Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum

User	Note	Page	Work	Collection	Time
BruceChen	Starting from line 6, I tried to add some poetic flavors (basically rhymes at the end of each line) to the translation. Phrases like 'all life long,' and 'like a gong' do not exist in the original text, but we're almost there with the translation,...	fol. 66r	Walters Ms. W.13, Synonyms of Isidore of Seville	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	over 1 year ago
BruceChen	Line 5: I should have written a note for similar cases earlier, but anyways... 'mestitiam' here DOES NOT mean 'mixed-blood', as you may find in many dictionaries, but rather it stands for 'maestitiam' (sorrow, sadness), the 'e' in Medieval time ca...	fol. 23v	Walters Ms. W.13, Synonyms of Isidore of Seville	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	over 1 year ago
BruceChen	Line 12-14: I changed the tense from future (as in the original text) to present (in the translation) since it sounds more natural in English.	fol. 21r	Walters Ms. W.13, Synonyms of Isidore of Seville	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	over 1 year ago
BruceChen	Line 1: N.B. this first line is not part of the main text. It's the scribe's sidenote. It baffled me at first, too.	fol. 2r	Walters Ms. W.13, Synonyms of Isidore of Seville	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	over 1 year ago
BruceChen	Line 17: 'leads everyone' comes from 'omnes adducit' from the beginning of the next page. I moved words around to make a complete sentence.	fol. 1v	Walters Ms. W.13, Synonyms of Isidore of Seville	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	over 1 year ago
BruceChen	Line 18: I moved words from the next page to here in order to finish a complete sentence.	fol. 7v	Walters Ms. W.13, Synonyms of Isidore of Seville	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	over 1 year ago
BruceChen	Line 12-14: Wow, is this Schadenfreude in the 7th century???	fol. 9v	Walters Ms. W.13, Synonyms of Isidore of Seville	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	over 1 year ago
BruceChen	Line 3 ('cum fletibus...cruor stillat'): Here, the two clauses have basically the same meaning. So I made it more figurative by reversing the role of blood and tear in the second clause. Let me know if you think that I should keep it in the origin...	fol. 7v	Walters Ms. W.13, Synonyms of Isidore of Seville	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	over 1 year ago
BruceChen	Man is EMO in Medieval Spain...	fol. 1v	Walters Ms. W.13, Synonyms of Isidore of Seville	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	over 1 year ago
Marie Richards	line 9-10: reduplication of pardevant. Scribal error?	Page 119	Walters Ms. W.199, Gossouin of Metz, Image du Monde	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	over 1 year ago
Marie Richards	line 4: tiel = ciel. Scribal error (or convention?)	Page 99	Walters Ms. W.199, Gossouin of Metz, Image du Monde	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	almost 2 years ago
Marie Richards	line 2: "selle", literally "seat"	Page 93	Walters Ms. W.199, Gossouin of Metz, Image du Monde	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	almost 2 years ago
Marie Richards	line 14: not sure of "ertrins"	Page 92	Walters Ms. W.199, Gossouin of Metz, Image du Monde	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	almost 2 years ago
Marie Richards	line 22: the French stays in plural here but reverts to singular on the next page. I've kept the whole thing in singular.	Page 267	Walters Ms. W.199, Gossouin of Metz, Image du Monde	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	almost 2 years ago
Marie Richards	line 2: in the French, plural changes to singular.	Page 268	Walters Ms. W.199, Gossouin of Metz, Image du Monde	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	almost 2 years ago
Marie Richards	line 14: the French changes from singular to plural for the rest of this long sentence.	Page 267	Walters Ms. W.199, Gossouin of Metz, Image du Monde	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	almost 2 years ago
Marie Richards	lines 6-7: Not sure what this means. Caxton has "Ther is nothing that ought to be made right, but only this that ought to be permanent. "	Page 261	Walters Ms. W.199, Gossouin of Metz, Image du Monde	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	almost 2 years ago
Marie Richards	line 8: lit. "danger" but surely he means difficulty.	Page 256	Walters Ms. W.199, Gossouin of Metz, Image du Monde	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	almost 2 years ago
Marie Richards	line 15: destre is a measure of distance, varying from place to place but sometimes equivalent to three feet. Caxton leaves it out.	Page 254	Walters Ms. W.199, Gossouin of Metz, Image du Monde	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	almost 2 years ago
Marie Richards	line 14: future translated as singular	Page 253	Walters Ms. W.199, Gossouin of Metz, Image du Monde	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	almost 2 years ago
Marie Richards	9-10: translation follows Caxton, ignoring "Et pour".	Page 249	Walters Ms. W.199, Gossouin of Metz, Image du Monde	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	almost 2 years ago
Marie Richards	line 8: get involved in worldly affairs?	Page 248	Walters Ms. W.199, Gossouin of Metz, Image du Monde	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	almost 2 years ago
Marie Richards	lines 20-21. Grammar is tricky. I have followed Caxton: And had leuer haue payne, mesayse and trauayll for tenserche trouthe and for to lerne science, than for to haue seygnourie and domynacton in the world, ne renommee for to be maister ; ffor ...	Page 243	Walters Ms. W.199, Gossouin of Metz, Image du Monde	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	almost 2 years ago
Marie Richards	line 12: "les clergies": first time it's been in the plural, I think.	Page 243	Walters Ms. W.199, Gossouin of Metz, Image du Monde	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	almost 2 years ago
Marie Richards	line 4: plural changes to singular in the French.	Page 234	Walters Ms. W.199, Gossouin of Metz, Image du Monde	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	almost 2 years ago
Marie Richards	line 6: "mirent" lit. saw	Page 232	Walters Ms. W.199, Gossouin of Metz, Image du Monde	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	almost 2 years ago
Marie Richards	line 14: convincingly: "haultement," lit. "forcibly"	Page 231	Walters Ms. W.199, Gossouin of Metz, Image du Monde	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	almost 2 years ago
Marie Richards	line 8: "cleric"!	Page 231	Walters Ms. W.199, Gossouin of Metz, Image du Monde	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	almost 2 years ago
Marie Richards	line 16: delete "sometimes", since the eclipse is always when the moon is full?	Page 202	Walters Ms. W.199, Gossouin of Metz, Image du Monde	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	about 2 years ago
Marie Richards	Lines 2-5: Ther is nothing in erthe that ought to be, ne therin hath growyng, but somme sterre hath strengthe and puissaunce by nature, is it good or otherwyse, suche as God hath gyuen to it .	Page 193	Walters Ms. W.199, Gossouin of Metz, Image du Monde	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	about 2 years ago
Marie Richards	line 14: accidens: technical philosophical term?	Page 75	Walters Ms. W.199, Gossouin of Metz, Image du Monde	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	about 2 years ago
Marie Richards	last line: chascune a en terre propres vertus. Same in the BL ms, but it seems like a scribal error for something like "ayent leur".	Page 188	Walters Ms. W.199, Gossouin of Metz, Image du Monde	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	about 2 years ago
Marie Richards	outre leau: literally "across the water," but can we say "on the other side of a river"?	Page 183	Walters Ms. W.199, Gossouin of Metz, Image du Monde	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	about 2 years ago
Marie Richards	line 8: should this be "everyone" instead of "everything"?	Page 162	Walters Ms. W.199, Gossouin of Metz, Image du Monde	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	about 2 years ago
Marie Richards	line 13: rather loose translation	Page 161	Walters Ms. W.199, Gossouin of Metz, Image du Monde	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	about 2 years ago
Marie Richards	line 21: "expedient" : can we say "now is the right time"?	Page 159	Walters Ms. W.199, Gossouin of Metz, Image du Monde	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	about 2 years ago
Marie Richards	Line 21: this seems odd.	Page 157	Walters Ms. W.199, Gossouin of Metz, Image du Monde	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	about 2 years ago
Marie Richards	line 15ff: change to masculine pronoun?	Page 156	Walters Ms. W.199, Gossouin of Metz, Image du Monde	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	about 2 years ago
Marie Richards	lines 20ff "Europe and Africa" (rubric and text): This doesn't make sense as it stands since the rubric says the section will discuss things in Europe and Africa. but the language is same in both ms. Caxton has changed "Europe and Africa" to "Asia...	Page 149	Walters Ms. W.199, Gossouin of Metz, Image du Monde	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	about 2 years ago
Marie Richards	lines 20ff "Europe and Africa" (rubric and text): This doesn't make sense as it stands since the rubric says the section will discuss things in Europe and Africa. but the language is same in both ms. Caxton has changed "Europe and Africa" to "Asi...	Page 150	Walters Ms. W.199, Gossouin of Metz, Image du Monde	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	about 2 years ago
Marie Richards	All the singulars have been changed to plurals to be more gender neutral.	Page 148	Walters Ms. W.199, Gossouin of Metz, Image du Monde	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	about 2 years ago
Marie Richards	Line 11: The original has present tense here and for “enclosed”, but it is clear from the next sentence that the island no longer exists.	Page 146	Walters Ms. W.199, Gossouin of Metz, Image du Monde	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	about 2 years ago
Marie Richards	Line 10: need a better translation for "divers" here.	Page 123	Walters Ms. W.199, Gossouin of Metz, Image du Monde	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	about 2 years ago
Marie Richards	Line 6: I left out "bien"	Page 122	Walters Ms. W.199, Gossouin of Metz, Image du Monde	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	about 2 years ago
Marie Richards	Line 3 ff: subject changes from female to male (I’ve used neuter) and later on bounces between singular and plural.	Page 121	Walters Ms. W.199, Gossouin of Metz, Image du Monde	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	about 2 years ago
Marie Richards	line 14: changes from plural to singular	Page 119	Walters Ms. W.199, Gossouin of Metz, Image du Monde	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	about 2 years ago
Marie Richards	isnellement: quickly (DMF)	Page 97	Walters Ms. W.199, Gossouin of Metz, Image du Monde	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	about 2 years ago
Marie Richards	NB There is a chapter heading in the OF "Du tour du firmament et des estoiles" that does not appear here, and there appears to be some text missing as well. Cf Gossuin, ed. Prior, p 159	Page 192	Walters Ms. W.199, Gossouin of Metz, Image du Monde	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	over 2 years ago
Marie Richards	NB an entire section of the 1245 ms, "Du dragon qui samble cheoir, et que ce est" is missing here. See Gossuin ed. Prior, p. 154.	Page 185	Walters Ms. W.199, Gossouin of Metz, Image du Monde	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	over 2 years ago
Marie Richards	1245 version (p 79) talks about Charlemagne and Lorraine, not the Emperor of Germany.	Page 59	Walters Ms. W.199, Gossouin of Metz, Image du Monde	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	over 2 years ago