Notes

Collection: Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum

User	Note	Page	Work	Collection	Time
Marie Richards	line 9: ambiguous. Needs two referents, only has one.	Page 28	Walters Ms. W.199, Gossouin of Metz, Image du Monde	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	almost 3 years ago
Marie Richards	line 13: charite = love	Page 26	Walters Ms. W.199, Gossouin of Metz, Image du Monde	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	almost 3 years ago
Marie Richards	line 10: check against ToC	Page 270	Walters Ms. W.199, Gossouin of Metz, Image du Monde	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	almost 3 years ago
Marie Richards	line 4: deuins (devins): The dot on the i seems to be in the wrong place for this, but the BL ms shows the minims more clearly. Caxton has "deuynes", not in OED. DMF gives "devin" as divinator, someone who sees the future.	Page 265	Walters Ms. W.199, Gossouin of Metz, Image du Monde	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	almost 3 years ago
Marie Richards	line 19: "amoult" should be "amont", as it is in the BL ms. Scribal error.	Page 264	Walters Ms. W.199, Gossouin of Metz, Image du Monde	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	almost 3 years ago
Marie Richards	che que jusques a celui tres espoventable jour ilz ne sont en corps mais en ame: per Prior, this is not in the OF text.	Page 262	Walters Ms. W.199, Gossouin of Metz, Image du Monde	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	almost 3 years ago
Marie Richards	line 17, 20: literally "knew to create" "knows to make"	Page 259	Walters Ms. W.199, Gossouin of Metz, Image du Monde	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	almost 3 years ago
Marie Richards	line 8: maismes: not in DMF but Caxton has "maynyes" which OED glosses as dependants or retainers of a great lord.	Page 259	Walters Ms. W.199, Gossouin of Metz, Image du Monde	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	almost 3 years ago
Marie Richards	Line 8: "massos" is scribal error. BL ms. has "masses".	Page 258	Walters Ms. W.199, Gossouin of Metz, Image du Monde	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	almost 3 years ago
Marie Richards	Prior fn 3: the OF of the last sentence is missing in Caxton's text. Prior translates it as: Now whoever wishes it can understand this by means of a stone which falls in an hour as fast as is natural to it. I cannot explain it any better.	Page 255	Walters Ms. W.199, Gossouin of Metz, Image du Monde	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	almost 3 years ago
Marie Richards	53 miles: Caxton has 43 (xliii) miles, and Prior notes, fn 2, that the OF ms. has lx et xiii, which is 73.	Page 255	Walters Ms. W.199, Gossouin of Metz, Image du Monde	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	almost 3 years ago
Marie Richards	Line 18: "visue" is not in DMF. "quick" is per Caxton. May occur elsewhere in the text (I looked it up before).	Page 252	Walters Ms. W.199, Gossouin of Metz, Image du Monde	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	almost 3 years ago
Marie Richards	Translation of the first phrase is per Caxton.	Page 252	Walters Ms. W.199, Gossouin of Metz, Image du Monde	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	almost 3 years ago
Marie Richards	line 12, xiiii pouces: Prior notes that although both ms. say this, other ms. have the correct 12 inches.	Page 251	Walters Ms. W.199, Gossouin of Metz, Image du Monde	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	almost 3 years ago
Marie Richards	line 15: "prouver regard de prouver" is a scribal error. BL ms has "il donna art de prouver regard par raison."	Page 250	Walters Ms. W.199, Gossouin of Metz, Image du Monde	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	almost 3 years ago
Marie Richards	lines 20-21: translation per Caxton.	Page 247	Walters Ms. W.199, Gossouin of Metz, Image du Monde	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	about 3 years ago
Marie Richards	lines 14-15: needs review. change from singular to plural and use of past subjunctive is strange.	Page 247	Walters Ms. W.199, Gossouin of Metz, Image du Monde	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	about 3 years ago
Marie Richards	line 12: "n'en clama pas sa part quitte": translation is Prior's.	Page 245	Walters Ms. W.199, Gossouin of Metz, Image du Monde	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	about 3 years ago
Marie Richards	Line 17: Note "tafle"	Page 244	Walters Ms. W.199, Gossouin of Metz, Image du Monde	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	about 3 years ago
Marie Richards	line 10: "mesaiges" : cf. in Greimas "mesais, mesaaise: embarras, chagrin; maladie, misere; "mesaisais": malaise, tribulation	Page 243	Walters Ms. W.199, Gossouin of Metz, Image du Monde	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	about 3 years ago
Marie Richards	lines 1-2: This translation isn't quite right but the language is tricky. Caxton leaves it out - he just says " in suche wyse that noman can fynde it ffor all the craft they can doo ."	Page 236	Walters Ms. W.199, Gossouin of Metz, Image du Monde	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	about 3 years ago
Marie Richards	line 16: fairly loose translation of "a la nature d'une femme"	Page 234	Walters Ms. W.199, Gossouin of Metz, Image du Monde	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	about 3 years ago
Marie Richards	line 20: "deux trais d'arc a la reonde": I have followed Caxton.	Page 233	Walters Ms. W.199, Gossouin of Metz, Image du Monde	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	about 3 years ago
Marie Richards	"fy" Left as "fy" in Caxton. I think the idea is that you can thumb your nose at the devil if you live a good life.	Page 225	Walters Ms. W.199, Gossouin of Metz, Image du Monde	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	about 3 years ago
Marie Richards	line 18: ne s'en faindront: not sure of this. Caxton has "amend."	Page 224	Walters Ms. W.199, Gossouin of Metz, Image du Monde	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	about 3 years ago
Marie Richards	lines 8-9: demonstranche de apparitions: Need a better translation.	Page 220	Walters Ms. W.199, Gossouin of Metz, Image du Monde	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	about 3 years ago
Marie Richards	Line 8-9: "quant il en es pres." I left this out, following Caxton, but need to review.	Page 216	Walters Ms. W.199, Gossouin of Metz, Image du Monde	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	about 3 years ago
Marie Richards	line 16 (translation): "maisines" is not in the DMF but seems to mean "households".	Page 213	Walters Ms. W.199, Gossouin of Metz, Image du Monde	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	about 3 years ago
Marie Richards	lines 9 ff: Prior p 145 fn 1: car li hons n’a lors ne membre ne vainne qui plus ne soit plainne d’umeurs que quant ele est en decours” : for man has then neither limb nor vein which is not fuller of humours than when she (the moon) is decreasing ...	Page 213	Walters Ms. W.199, Gossouin of Metz, Image du Monde	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	about 3 years ago
Marie Richards	lines 13ff (translation): There are lines missing from the text, found in the BL ms.: Nous lairons pour le present a tant ester des eclipses pour racompter et declairer de la vertu du firmament et des estoilles Car qui bien en saroit la vertu il...	Page 210	Walters Ms. W.199, Gossouin of Metz, Image du Monde	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	about 3 years ago
Marie Richards	line 2: "eclipse" is "figure" in the BL ms. Appears to be scribal error here.	Page 207	Walters Ms. W.199, Gossouin of Metz, Image du Monde	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	about 3 years ago
Marie Richards	Line 13-15: unclear. Here is the Caxton: Ffor bytwene the sonne and the mone is a lygne whiche declyneth somoche to the mone, by whiche the sonne smyteth his Bayes in her as longe as ther is no lettyng by therthe.	Page 203	Walters Ms. W.199, Gossouin of Metz, Image du Monde	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	about 3 years ago
Marie Richards	line 13: between the moon and the earth: Caxton has "between the sun and the moon".	Page 203	Walters Ms. W.199, Gossouin of Metz, Image du Monde	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	about 3 years ago
Marie Richards	Caxton: ffor the sonne that goth round aboute vs taketh fro tho sterres their dernes that ben on the day tyme where the sonne is, vnto the tyme that he draweth hym vnder. But alle they be lyght, what someuer part they torne, as wel by day as by...	Page 198	Walters Ms. W.199, Gossouin of Metz, Image du Monde	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	about 3 years ago
Marie Richards	Line 20: "mouis" could also be "moins." BN ms has "mai[n]s". This whole image is puzzling. Caxton has: lyke as ye went tornyng a brennyng candell aboute your heed, or as ye shold here it a lytil ferther of Round aboute an apple, and that the can...	Page 194	Walters Ms. W.199, Gossouin of Metz, Image du Monde	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	about 3 years ago
Marie Richards	Line 3: "frus": BL ms has "fais" which makes more sense. Scribal error?	Page 194	Walters Ms. W.199, Gossouin of Metz, Image du Monde	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	about 3 years ago
Marie Richards	Some translation problems at the page turn between this page and the last.	Page 193	Walters Ms. W.199, Gossouin of Metz, Image du Monde	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	about 3 years ago
Marie Richards	Line 21: "verbe" appears to be scribal error. BL Ms has "herbe," which makes much more sense. I have used the latter for the translation.	Page 192	Walters Ms. W.199, Gossouin of Metz, Image du Monde	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	about 3 years ago
Marie Richards	lines 5-6: "which is as fast as it can" is a rough - possibly wrong - translation of "tousjours avant qu'elle le puis avoir fait." Caxton leaves the phrase out altogether.	Page 190	Walters Ms. W.199, Gossouin of Metz, Image du Monde	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	over 3 years ago
Marie Richards	Lines 6/7 between "appert" and "Ainsi" the word "blanc" is missing from this ms. but appears in the BL ms. Appears to be scribal error.	Page 188	Walters Ms. W.199, Gossouin of Metz, Image du Monde	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	over 3 years ago
Marie Richards	Line 9: "tembas" . BL ms has de<i>n</i>bas. Looks like someone might have fiddled with the "t" to turn it into a "d" (unsuccessfully), and not sure what is happening with "mb". Scribal error.	Page 180	Walters Ms. W.199, Gossouin of Metz, Image du Monde	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	over 3 years ago
Marie Richards	line 4: "petit pert": same in both ms. "pert" could be from either perdre or paroir. I've gone with the latter, following Caxton.	Page 178	Walters Ms. W.199, Gossouin of Metz, Image du Monde	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	over 3 years ago
Marie Richards	line 1: "pays" should be "rays", as it is in BL ms. Scribal error.	Page 178	Walters Ms. W.199, Gossouin of Metz, Image du Monde	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	over 3 years ago
Marie Richards	Line 15: "la terre" is in the BL ms., missing here as a clerical error.	Page 174	Walters Ms. W.199, Gossouin of Metz, Image du Monde	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	over 3 years ago
Marie Richards	Line 11: Prior fn 6: "“Thabbay of Plounners” (“ Plommieres” in O.F. text, p. 142)- is now “ Plombieres” in the Departement des Vosges. This passage is particularly interesting as it shows Gossouin’s intimate knowledge of the country round Metz, w...	Page 167	Walters Ms. W.199, Gossouin of Metz, Image du Monde	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	over 3 years ago
Marie Richards	Lines 7-8: Caxton has: "but the deth wold they haue and weesshe after it incessantly." This makes sense but I don't see how he got it from the French.	Page 163	Walters Ms. W.199, Gossouin of Metz, Image du Monde	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	over 3 years ago
Marie Richards	line 4: "things" for "aventures" is weak.	Page 162	Walters Ms. W.199, Gossouin of Metz, Image du Monde	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	over 3 years ago
Marie Richards	Line 1 ff: Caxton has expanded on these lines, but the BL ms. looks like this one. "The breeth of a man, whiche is hoot, coleth hoot thyng ; and it chauffeth colde and ayer by meuyng . 1 The erthe, whiche is peysant and right heuy by nature, ho...	Page 159	Walters Ms. W.199, Gossouin of Metz, Image du Monde	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	over 3 years ago
Marie Richards	Line 18 ff.: Prior fn 5: The passage from “Also it maketh . . .’’to “ . . . Crystal in lyke wyse” is unintelligible in the O.F. text. It is the same in all the Prose MSS., and reads (p. 138) : “Si fait l’en de l'eave froide en .i. vaissel de voi...	Page 158	Walters Ms. W.199, Gossouin of Metz, Image du Monde	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	over 3 years ago
Marie Richards	Line 2: "besognues et raisons" : "things" is a bit bland, but what instead?	Page 158	Walters Ms. W.199, Gossouin of Metz, Image du Monde	Manuscripts from the Walters Art Museum	over 3 years ago