Description
Book SynopsisAlthough Richard Rolle, hermit of Hampole, was perhaps the most influential spiritual author of the later English Middle Ages, the coming of print was not kind to him. Although a large collected Latin
Opera appeared in the 1530s, it was scarcely exhaustive, and a number of the texts there included, notably Rolle's Latin Psalter commentary, have not been critically examined since. This volume partially redresses this silence by providing a sequence of four Latin texts that have remained in manuscript. Central to Rolle's oeuvre (and to this volume) is Rolle's meditative reading of the first three verses of The Song of Songs, 'Super Canticum'. Also included are two relatively brief unedited texts, 'Super Magnificat' and 'De vita activa et contemplativa'. In addition, the volume reassesses the universal manuscript ascription to Rolle of 'Viridarium, vel De misericordia Dei'; although the work is here reascribed, there is also an edition of selected passages.
Unprinted Latin Writings also includes an introduction, critical and textual, some textual annotation, a description of all those previously undescribed manuscripts used here, and an index of the medieval sources cited.
Trade Review‘As can be expected, Hanna’s editorial choices are sound, and his editorial considerations, especially for the Super Canticum, are explained with admirable clarity in the introduction… [a] slim but highly erudite and ambitious volume.’ Greti Dinkova-Bruun, Speculum
Table of ContentsForeword
Abbreviated References
Introduction
Bibliography
The Texts:
Super Canticum Canticorum
Super Magnificat
De vita activa et contemplativa
Viridarium, vel De misericordia Dei
Notes to the texts
Appendix: Manuscripts previously undescribed
Index fontium
