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- Title
The <italic>Ormulum</italic> in the Seventeenth Century: The Manuscript and Its Early Readers.
- Authors
Dekker, Kees
- Abstract
The most recent edition of the <italic>Ormulum</italic> by Robert Holt (The <italic>Ormulum</italic>, with the notes and glossary of Dr. R. M. White, OUP, Oxford, <xref>1878)</xref> pays little or no attention to its seventeenth-century readers and owners: the philologists Jan van Vliet (1622-1666) and Francis Junius (1591-1677). This study aims to fill this lacuna in the reception history of the <italic>Ormulum</italic> by analysing the study of the <italic>Ormulum</italic> in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. The results show a vivid and imaginative approach to the <italic>Ormulum</italic> by its first active student, Jan van Vliet, who discovered its metrical qualities and studied its lexicon. Despite a declining interest in the <italic>Ormulum</italic> by later scholars, the activities and ideas of its early readers have been a lasting influence on the reception of this unique text.
- Subjects
MANUSCRIPTS; EARLY modern history; BIBLIOGRAPHY; NONBOOK materials; SIXTEENTH century
- Publication
Neophilologus, 2018, Vol 102, Issue 2, p257
- ISSN
0028-2677
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11061-017-9547-3