The Franciscan manuscript found.
CNRS Editions| N° d'inventaire | 24028 |
| Format | 21 x 21 |
| Détails | 394 p., color illustrations, paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2021 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782271137500 |
A tiny paperback (12 x 8 cm), the manuscript put up for sale in 2014 by a Parisian gallery, crude, worn, ragged and barely decipherable, nevertheless aroused extraordinary international enthusiasm and intense scientific investigations. This libricino that an itinerant brother, disciple of Francis of Assisi, slipped into his bag eight hundred years ago was, in a few months, acquired by the National Library of France, digitized and put online on Gallica to be offered for international expertise.
A few years of research later, the 122 small sheets have not revealed all their secrets, but the specialists gathered here, experts in physics, chemistry, biology, paleography, codicology, philology, history and theology, have made decisive advances.
This collection contains not only an unpublished Life of Saint Francis (1181-1226) written in the 1230s, but also various known or unpublished sermons by Anthony of Padua, a commentary on Our Father where perhaps the fervor of the Poverello in person, extracts, anthologies or the copy of entire works like the strange ones Revelations of the pseudo-Method. A priceless historical treasure, it is also a "total object" that must be observed, probed, explored, to extract all the information contained in its materials, its manufacture, its use. This engaging collection constitutes an exceptional testimony to the concerns and sensitivity of a small group of Friars Minor, in the aftermath of the death of their founder.
The experts gathered here offer the first scientific results of their studies. Perhaps the most important of their achievements is the overcoming of the divide between hard sciences and humanities in the service of research based on rigor and inventiveness.
A tiny paperback (12 x 8 cm), the manuscript put up for sale in 2014 by a Parisian gallery, crude, worn, ragged and barely decipherable, nevertheless aroused extraordinary international enthusiasm and intense scientific investigations. This libricino that an itinerant brother, disciple of Francis of Assisi, slipped into his bag eight hundred years ago was, in a few months, acquired by the National Library of France, digitized and put online on Gallica to be offered for international expertise.
A few years of research later, the 122 small sheets have not revealed all their secrets, but the specialists gathered here, experts in physics, chemistry, biology, paleography, codicology, philology, history and theology, have made decisive advances.
This collection contains not only an unpublished Life of Saint Francis (1181-1226) written in the 1230s, but also various known or unpublished sermons by Anthony of Padua, a commentary on Our Father where perhaps the fervor of the Poverello in person, extracts, anthologies or the copy of entire works like the strange ones Revelations of the pseudo-Method. A priceless historical treasure, it is also a "total object" that must be observed, probed, explored, to extract all the information contained in its materials, its manufacture, its use. This engaging collection constitutes an exceptional testimony to the concerns and sensitivity of a small group of Friars Minor, in the aftermath of the death of their founder.
The experts gathered here offer the first scientific results of their studies. Perhaps the most important of their achievements is the overcoming of the divide between hard sciences and humanities in the service of research based on rigor and inventiveness.