Richard Rolle

Description

"Although 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."--From back cover.

Description

"This volume presents a variety of mainly unpublished texts relating to the Yorkshire hermit, Richard Rolle. It contains a number of texts certainly by Rolle, but omitted from O.S. 293, Richard Rolle: Prose and Verse, ed. S.J. Ogilvie-Thomson (1988), including a new edition of Rolle's English lyrics, based upon a critical examination of all known manuscript witnesses. Three previously unpublished texts are included here because they were ascribed to Rolle in the Middle Ages. There are good grounds for considering one, a commentary on the lessons from the Office of the Dead, to be authentic Rolle, and Hanna argues that the second, 'Of thre wyrkyngs in mans saul' is probably so. The edition concludes with three unpublished Northern texts which, though anonymous, are devoted to the eremitical life."--Jacket.

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Other Editions

• Richard Rolle: Uncollected Prose and Verse, with Related Northern TextsHardcoverPublished for the Early English Text Society by the Oxford University Press2008-01-11
• Richard RolleLiverpool University Press2019-01-01