Le Manuscrit Royal de la Suite de la Seconde Semaine de Du Bartas
- Submitting institution
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The University of Birmingham
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 43087907
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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- Title of journal
- Bibliothèque d’Humanisme et Renaissance
- Article number
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- First page
- 127
- Volume
- 78
- Issue
- 1
- ISSN
- 0006-1999
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- March
- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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https://www.droz.org/europe/product/9782600047371
- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- Yes
- English abstract
- Du Bartas’ twentieth-century editors neglected an essential source in the textual history of his late poetry. British Library, Royal MS 19 A XI, is a presentation copy of ‘Suite de la Seconde Sepmaine Du Sieur Du Bartas’. It contains the earliest known text of these poems, free from printers’ errors and in the correct order. Remarkably, it also includes a text of ‘Les Peres’ with over 800 verses absent from all printed editions. This article records the transformative significance of this manuscript for reading Du Bartas’s late works and identifies some of the most pressing tasks for further research.
