Pilgrim's Guide to Santiago de Compostela: A Critical Edition: I - Hardcover

Stones, Alison; Etc.; Krochalis, Jeanne

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0905203526 ISBN 13: 9780905203522

Publisher: Harvey Miller Publishers, 1998

Synopsis

This volume presents a fresh interpretation of the origins of the Guide, its dissemination and its reception over six centuries, based on a new analysis of the twelve extant manuscripts and a collation of the variants. The authors introduce their detailed Catalogue of Manuscripts with a full discussion on the origins, patronage, authorship and production of the manuscripts. And to accompany the Catalogue, there is also a body of illustrations in which a selection of the significant pages from each extant copy is reproduced. II. The Text This en regard editio offers a new English translation of the Latin Text of probably the earliest surviving copy of the Guide - the Codex Calixtinus in the Archivo de la Catedral de Santiago de Compostela. Extensive annotations of both the Latin and English texts collate this manuscript with the other eleven extant copies. All aspects of the contents of the text are commented on - saints, relics, buildings, place-names, language, costumes, customs, history and art. More detailed discussions on the monuments are cross-refe- renced to the entries and illustrations in the companion volume, the GAZETTEER. Also included here is an exhaustive Bibliography, and a Map of the routes. This volume presents a fresh interpretation of the origins of the Pilgrim's Guide, its dissemination and its reception over six centuries, based on a new analysis of the twelve extant manuscripts and a collation of the variants.

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Synopsis

This text, written in Latin in the 12th century, is believed to be the first real travel book of the Middle Ages. The guide describes the pilgrim routes through France and Northern Spain to the shrine of St James at the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, and it gives details of where a ccomodation, good food and wines were to be found. It also provides descriptions of many buildings and monuments to be encountered along the routes. Moreover, it offers valuable information for the medieval traveller on topography, social customs, and codes of behaviour, as well as on such modern topics as armed robbery and water pollution. "The Pilgrim's Guide" is a work that can be studied and understood at several levels. This is a critical edition of the text based on the earliest of the 12 surviving copies of the "Guide" - that is the Codex Calixtinus in the Archivo de la Catedral at Santiago de Compostela. Here the Latin text has been edited, fully annotated and collated with all other extant manuscripts of the "Guide", and printed side by side with a new translation into English, also with annotations. The study includes discussions of the text, authorship, script and decoration of the "Guide" as well as a catalogue of all the twelve extant manuscripts with bibliographies and illustrations. It is being published in two volumes, the Latin and English text with annotations in one, and the critical apparatus with illustrations in the other.

Edition details

• Publisher: Harvey Miller Publishers
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0905203526
• ISBN 13: 9780905203522
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 560