| Title: | Electronic Manipulus Florum Project |
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| Description: | The Electronic Manipulus Florum Project aims to provide a complete online edition of Thomas of Ireland's medieval work of reference, the 'Manipulus Florum' (Handful of Flowers). This work was widely circulated in both manuscript and print form during the Middle Ages and Early Modern period, and is an example of a genre of text known as 'florilegia', or anthologies of quotations. Currently around 1800 quotations (about 30 percent of the text) have been edited and are available via an alphabetical index, with more transcribed from the 1493/5 Venice edition available in PDF format. The Project (particularly the critical edition) is still ongoing, with a search engine due to be provided towards the end of 2008, and Italian, German and French translations of the supporting webpages to follow thereafter. The site provides a timetable for the project; progress updates; sections on three of the major early printed editions of the texts; a set of related links; and a guest book. This site would be a useful resource for students of manuscript/book history, and medieval literature. |
| Keywords - controlled: | medieval; Latin; anthologies; quotations (texts); theology; Thomas, of Ireland, ca. 1265-ca. 1329; |
| Keywords - uncontrolled: | mediaeval; Middle Ages; transcriptions |
| Type: | Arts Projects; Reference sources; Papers/reports/articles/texts |
| URL: | http://info.wlu.ca/~wwwhist/faculty/cnighman/ |
| Classification: |
Humanities > Manuscript studies > Western manuscripts Humanities > History > Intellectual history / ideas and learning |
| Resource creator: | Nighman, Chris L. (Editor), Wilfrid Laurier University |
| Country of origin: | Canada |
| Period: | 14th Century; 15th Century |
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