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Article: Book for a Simple and Devout Woman: A Late Middle English Adaptation of Peraldus's Summa de vitiis et virtutibus and Friar Laurent's Somme le roi, Edited from British Library MSS Harley 6571 and Additional 30944.(Review)
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- September 22, 1999
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Book for a Simple and Devout Woman: A Late Middle English Adaptation of Peraldus's Summa de vitiis et virtutibus and Friar Laurent's Somme le roi, Edited from British Library MSS Harley 6571 and Additional 30944, ed. F. N. M. Diekstra, Mediaevalia Groningana 24 (Groningen: Egbert Forsten, 1998). xii + 598 pp.; 2 plates. ISBN 90-6980-115-9. $85.00.
The proportions indicate that this is a major scholarly endeavour: only 227 of the book's more than 600 pages are occupied by the edited text itself. On the other pages F. N. M. Diekstra has provided a rich apparatus including manuscript descriptions, linguistic analyses and profiles of the manuscripts, a (lengthy) list ...