By Douglas Moffat

The 1st serious version of 1 of the earliest representations of the body-and-soul subject within the center a long time, which, strangely, survives in additional than one replica and is consequently of specific relevance to the research of the transmission of texts; dialogue of manuscripts, language, prosody and constitution.

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Ricciardi (1976). Orton provides facing diplomatic and edited texts of both versions; Ricciardi offers edited texts of both. Neither attempts a critical edition of the poem. Because of the near-canonical status of the ASPR with its manuscript format, and the resulting double appearance of Soul and Body, it is often unclear, on the face of it, whether one is dealing with two versions of one work or two separate poems. , V and E, are separate in the same way that Homiletic Fragment I and II are. , Smetana (1967), Ferguson (1970), Frantzen (1982).

R. Orton, Michael Phillips, and Gabe Scardellato also helped in various ways. I must also thank the University of Illinois Press for allowing me to use portions of an article that had appeared in JEGP. My publisher has been very patient in waiting for the work to be finished, yet swift in bringing it to completion. I owe a special debt of thanks to Robert and Debbie Israel and their family, very good friends who not only let me use their computer but gave me much help and encouragement as well.

Es in geþohtes E19, E23, seems to be early and not likely WS. 1 could also be ascribed to eWS or to other dialects, the preponderance of lWS forms in both E and V points to the fact that we are dealing with two lWS copies of Soul and Body. The Exeter Book itself, of course, is generally regarded as lWS. 3 (j,k) above). The Vercelli Book scribe, if Kentish, must have been working with a lWS copy of Soul and Body. Nothing in the evidence presented above points conclusively to an eWS copy of V. 48 may well be the form lying behind the MS's meda, the three consecutive minims having led to a copying error, but we can't know this for certain.

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