Nicholas Trevet’s Commentary on the Psalms (1317 – c. 1321): A Publishing History

How did medieval authors publish their works in the age before print? This study seeks to achieve new insights into the publishing strategies of medieval authors by focusing on Nicholas Trevet, an English Dominican friar and Oxford master. Shortly after 1317, Trevet was commissioned by his provincia...

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Main Author: Kujawinski, Jakub
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description How did medieval authors publish their works in the age before print? This study seeks to achieve new insights into the publishing strategies of medieval authors by focusing on Nicholas Trevet, an English Dominican friar and Oxford master. Shortly after 1317, Trevet was commissioned by his provincial prior to write a literal commentary on the Psalter. He chose as his reference version the less commonly used Latin translation by Jerome from the Hebrew, and delivered his work before 1321/22. The first book-length examination of Trevet’s commentary, this detailed study traces the ways in which the work was circulated by the author and his proxies. Through a combined analysis of codicological, textual, and historical features of the nine extant fourteenth-century manuscripts, this study identifies contemporary efforts to make Trevet’s work available to readers within and without the Dominican Order, in England and on the Continent. Even during the author’s lifetime the commentary was copied in Paris and reached readers in Avignon and likely in Naples.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1509742025-02-10T17:03:30Z Nicholas Trevet’s Commentary on the Psalms (1317 – c. 1321): A Publishing History Kujawinski, Jakub Old Testament/Hebrew Bible criticism & exegesis Writing, printing & Book history Scholastic Theology (c. 1200-1500) thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRM Christianity::QRMF Christianity: sacred texts and revered writings::QRMF1 Bibles::QRMF12 Old Testaments How did medieval authors publish their works in the age before print? This study seeks to achieve new insights into the publishing strategies of medieval authors by focusing on Nicholas Trevet, an English Dominican friar and Oxford master. Shortly after 1317, Trevet was commissioned by his provincial prior to write a literal commentary on the Psalter. He chose as his reference version the less commonly used Latin translation by Jerome from the Hebrew, and delivered his work before 1321/22. The first book-length examination of Trevet’s commentary, this detailed study traces the ways in which the work was circulated by the author and his proxies. Through a combined analysis of codicological, textual, and historical features of the nine extant fourteenth-century manuscripts, this study identifies contemporary efforts to make Trevet’s work available to readers within and without the Dominican Order, in England and on the Continent. Even during the author’s lifetime the commentary was copied in Paris and reached readers in Avignon and likely in Naples. 2025-02-10T17:03:29Z 2025-02-10T17:03:29Z 2024 book ONIX_20250210_9782503602103_47 9782503602103 9782503602110 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/150974 eng lat Instrumenta Patristica et Mediaevalia image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International https://www.brepols.net/products/IS-9782503602103-1 https://www.brepolsonline.net/action/showBook?doi=10.1484%2FM.IPM-EB.5.131279 Brepols Brepols 10.1484/M.IPM-EB.5.131279 10.1484/M.IPM-EB.5.131279 337417f5-5e42-49d3-8b32-3867e1572190 9782503602103 9782503602110 Brepols 91 389 Turnhout open access
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Nicholas Trevet’s Commentary on the Psalms (1317 – c. 1321): A Publishing History
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Writing, printing & Book history
Scholastic Theology (c. 1200-1500)
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