Heretical Hands at Work: Reconsidering the Genesis of a Cathar
Manuscript (Ms. Firenze, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Conv.
soppr. J.II.44)

J 2017

Heretical Hands at Work: Reconsidering the Genesis of a Cathar Manuscript (Ms. Firenze, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Conv. soppr. J.II.44)

ZBÍRAL, David

Basic information

Original name

Heretical Hands at Work: Reconsidering the Genesis of a Cathar Manuscript (Ms. Firenze, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Conv. soppr. J.II.44)

Authors

ZBÍRAL, David (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Revue d'histoire des textes, 2017, 0373-6075

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

60304 Religious studies

Country of publisher

France

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

References:

URL

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14210/17:00094738

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1484/J.RHT.5.112814

Keywords in English

Liber de duobus principiis; Catharism; Cathars; dualism; manuscript; additions; marginalia; biblical exegesis; sapiential literature; wisdom; apocalyptic; apocalypticism; reading practices; medieval heresy; MS Firenze BNCF Conv. soppr. J.II.44

Abstract

V originále

This article reconsiders all the additions and marginalia and some of the reader marks in the Cathar manuscript J.II.44 held by the National Central Library of Florence (Firenze, Biblioteca nazionale centrale, Conv. soppr., ms. J.II.44, also known under the shelf mark I.II.44), revises the identification of scribal hands, and draws some conclusions concerning the genesis and use of the codex. The additions and reader marks were undervalued and partly misinterpreted in Antoine Dondaine’s, Arno Borst’s, and Christine Thouzellier’s classical presentations of the manuscript. A careful reassessment of the reader marks and additions shows that these important witnesses to further use of the manuscript do not come from an inquisitorial milieu, as Borst and Thouzellier hypothesized for some of them, but mostly point to the milieu of the Cathar Church of Desenzano in the mid-thirteenth century. The additions reveal at least two rather unexpected strands in the thought of the readers of the compilation, the first being moralistic and sapiential, and the second, apocalyptic. This identification of sapiential and apocalyptic tendencies in the Florence codex significantly enriches available knowledge of the religious culture within the Desenzano Church.

Links

GAP401/12/0657, research and development project

Name: Prameny ke studiu nesouhlasných náboženských hnutí ve středověkém západním křesťanství se zaměřením na katarství

Investor: Czech Science Foundation, Sources for the Study of Dissenting Religious Movements in Western Medieval Christianity with Special Focus on Catharism

Citovat

ZBÍRAL, David. Heretical Hands at Work: Reconsidering the Genesis of a Cathar Manuscript (Ms. Firenze, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Conv. soppr. J.II.44). Revue d'histoire des textes. 2017, vol. 12, No 1, p. 261-288. ISSN 0373-6075. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1484/J.RHT.5.112814.

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ZBÍRAL, David. Heretical Hands at Work: Reconsidering the Genesis of a Cathar Manuscript (Ms. Firenze, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Conv. soppr. J.II.44). \textit{Revue d'histoire des textes}. 2017, vol.~12, No~1, p.~261-288. ISSN~0373-6075. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1484/J.RHT.5.112814.

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