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The authors of the Late Middle Ages had two main ways to tell the Passion: in form of “meditations” or in form of “narrative representations”. Meyronnes’ Tractatus de Passione Domini belongs to this second typology, which allows the author to invent dialogues or to describe characters’ emotions and thoughts and to offer sometimes also his own point of view to the reader. Moreover, his work is probably the first example of this textual typology.
Francis of Meyronnes (1288 – 1328) was a theologian and a sermonist, disciple of John Duns Scoto. He wrote an impressive number of philosophical, political and devotional works. He studied at the University of Paris and taught in several provincial studia in France and in Italy.
Index
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 4
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS 5
FOREWORD 6
EDITORIAL INTRODUTION
1. Francis of Meyronnes (ca. 1288 – ca. 1328) 14
1.1 Life 17
1.2 Works 21
2. Meyronnes’ treatise on the Passion 27
2.1 Textual type 31
2.1.1 Theology and/or literature? 34
2.1.2 Meyronnes’ definition of the Passion 46
2.1.3 Authorial inputs 51
2.2 Sources 60
2.2.1 Bible 61
2.2.2 Ordinary Gloss 64
2.2.3 Peter Comestor’s Historia Scholastica 70
2.2.4 Connections with the Meditationes Vitae Christi 77
2.2.5 Vernacular environment 88
2.3 Structure and contents 92
2.3.1 Table of contents 93
3. Manuscript’s description 100
3.1 Phisical and historical data 101
3.2 Contents 103
CRITICAL EDITION
EDITORIAL NOTE 114
Prologus 116
Consideracio prima 119
Consideracio secunda 135
Consideracio tercia 171
Consideracio quarta 197
Consideracio quinta 211
Consideracio sexta 223
Consideracio septima 238
Consideracio octava 253
APPENDICES
A. INDICES 271
I. Index locorum Sacrae Scripturae 271
II. Index nominum, locorum et rerum 274
B. BIBLIOGRAPHY 285
I. Manuscripts 285
II. Print editions 285
III. Studies on Francis of Meyronnes 287
IV. Quoted editions of medieval works 290
V. Secondary literature 293
VI. Dictionaries, catalogues and informatics instruments 301
