Text and eschatology in Book III of the Old English Soliloquies

Anglia

Volumn 121, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 177-209

  Godden, Malcolm ^a  

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DOI: 10.1515/ANGL.2003.177     Document Type: Review

References (26)

1. Quotations and citations from the text of the Soliloquies are from King Alfred's Version of St Augustine's Soliloquies, ed. T. A. Carnicelli (Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1969). Reference is also made to König Alfreds des Grossen Bearbeitung der Soliloquien des Augustinus, ed. W. Endter, Bibliothek der angelsächsischen Prosa 11 (Hamburg, 1922; repr. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1964) and King Alfred's Old English Version of St Augustine's Soliloquies, ed. H. L. Hargrove, Yale Studies in English 13 (New York: Holt, 1902). On the state of the text see, in addition to the editions, Karl Jost, "Zur Textkritik der altenglischen Soliloquienbearbeitung", Beiblatt zur Anglia 31 (1920): 259-72, 280-90, and 32 (1921): 8-16;
2. S. Keynes and M. Lapidge, Alfred the Great (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1983) 299;
3. M. McGatch, "King Alfred's version of Augustine's Soliloquia: some suggestions on its rationale and unity", Studies in Earlier Old English Prose, ed. P.E. Szarmach (Albany: State U of New York P, 1986) 17-45, at 17.
4. For a description of the manuscript see the editions of Carnicelli and Endter, and N. R. Ker, Catalogue of Manuscripts Containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon, 1957, reissued with suppl. 1990) 279-81.
5. The manuscript is reproduced in Electronic Beowulf, ed. Kevin Kiernan et al., CD-ROM (London: British Library, and Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1999). Unless specified otherwise, translations are my own.
6. Sancti Aureli Augustini, Operum Sectio II. Epistulae, ed. A. Goldbacher, 4 vols, in 5, Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorurn [= CSEL] 34, 44, 57 and 58 (Vienna, 1895-1923);
7. Ruth Waterhouse, "Tone in Alfred's Version of Augustine's Soliloquies", Studies in Earlier Old English Prose, ed. P. E. Szarmach (Albany: State U of New York P, 1986) 47-85, at 48 and 81, n.5. The concluding statement to which she refers is I presume what I call section E.
8. King Alfred's Old English Version of Boethius De Consolatione Philosophiae, ed. W.J. Sedgefield (Oxford: Clarendon, 1899) 52, line 16.
9. Carnicelli 1969, 97.18; R. P. Wülker, "Über die Angelsächsische Bearbeitung der Soliloquien Augustins", Beiträge zur Geschichte der Angelsächsischen Literatur 4 (1877): 101-31.
10. A suggestion made by Kevin Kiernan, Beowulf and the Beowulf Manuscript (revised edition, Ann Arbor: U of Michigan, 1996) 114.
11. Augustine, Retractationum Libri II, ed. A. Mutzenbecher, Corpus Christianorum, Series Latina [= CCSL] 57 (Turnhout, 1984) I.v, 15-16.
12. Sancti Aureli Augustini, De cura pro mortuis gerenda, ed. J. Zycha, CSEL 41 (Vienna, 1900) 621-60, at 649-50, chapter 14, section 17.
13. Gregory the Great, Homiliae xl in euangelia, Patrologia Latina [= PL], ed. J.-P. Migne (Paris, 1841-64), 76, 1075-1312; Homily 40, at 1308; the translation is that of David Hurst, in Gregory the Great, Forty Gospel Homilies, [Cistercian Studies Series 123] (Kalamazoo: Cistercian Publications, 1990) 380.
14. Grégoire le Grand, Dialogi, ed. A. de Vogüé, 3 vols, Sources chrétiennes 251, 260 and 265 (Paris, 7978-80) IV.34-35. The translation is that of O.J. Zimmerman, in Gregory the Great, Dialogues, Fathers of the Church 39 (Washington, DC: Catholic U of America P, 1959) 233.
15. Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job, ed. M. Adriaen, 3 vols. CCSL 143, 143A and 143B (Turnhout, 1979-85) XII.21. The translation is from Morals on the Book of Job, 3 vols, in 4, Library of the Fathers 18, 21, 23 and 31 (Oxford: Parker, 1845-85) II, 62.
16. Julian of Toledo, Prognosticon Futuri Saeculi, ed. J. N. Hillgarth, CCSL 115 (Turnhout, 1976) 11-126.
17. "Æfric's Excerpts from Julian of Toledo, Prognosticon Futuri Saeculi", ed. M. McGatch in his Preaching and Theology in Anglo-Saxon England: Ælfric and Wulfstan (Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1977) 129-46, esp. 138-39.
18. Homilies of Aelfric: A Supplementary Collection, ed. J. C. Pope, 2 vols., EETS OS 259 and 260 (London UP, 1967-68), Homily 11, lines 261-70: "Nu hi sceawiao soolice heora Scyppendes beorhtnysse, and nis foroi nan gesceaft pe hi geseon ne magon, ge on heofonum ge on eoroan, ge oa oe on helle beoo ... . pa halgan sawla geseoo swutollice ealle oing, ac oa arleasan sawla oe on suslum wuniao ne magon gewitan hwæt gewyro mid us."
19. Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum, ed. B. Colgrave and R. A. B. Mynors (Oxford: Clarendon, 1969) V.12.
20. E. Dekkers and A. Gaar, Clavis Patrum Latinorum (Steenbrugge: Brepols, 1995), no. 631.
21. Sancti Aureli Augustini, De Genesi ad Litteram libri duodecim, ed. J. Zycha, CSEL 28.1 (Vienna, 1894) XII.35.
22. Augustine, De Civitate Dei, ed. B. Dombart and A. Kalb, 2 vols., CCSL 47-48 (Turnhout, 1955) XXII.29; Hillgarth 1976, III.55; Gatch 1977, 146, lines 389 ff.
23. Jost 1920, 260-1; D. Whitelock, "The prose of Alfred's reign", Continuations and Beginnings. Studies in Old English Literature, ed. E. G. Stanley (London: Nelson, 1966) 67-103, at 88.
24. D. P. Wallace, "King Alfred's Version of St Augustine's Soliloquies, II, 23-26, The Vision of the Damned", Notes & Queries 235, ns 37 (1990): 141-43.
25. Cf., e. g. Christ, 1107 ff., in The Exeter Book, ed. G. P. Krapp and E. van Kirk Dobbie, Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records III (New York and London: Routledge, 1936) 33;
26. The Vercelli Homilies and Related Texts, ed. D. G. Scragg, EETS OS 300 (Oxford 1992), Homily VIII, lines 18-87.