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PAYS DE LANGUE NÉERLANDAIS E Compte-rend u
Geert Grootes tractaat « Contra Turrim Traiectensem teruggevonden « ,
uitgegeven door R. R . Post, 's-Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff, 1967 . During almost six centuries this treatise of Geert Grote has been lost . Some years ago it was found and now we have to thank Prof . Post for a useful and attractive, though not faultless edition .
While one cannot but admire the patience and skill, that were required to read the very difficult manuscript, to write the clea r introduction and the Dutch translation, it is to be regretted tha t the Latin text is the weakest part of this edition .
The manuscript is very difficult indeed and the misreadings ar e few, but in some cases the reader should have been warned that th e text as edited is hardly Latin, even Medieval Latin .
120 — nun] nulla
156 — sicud] sicut . This is the meaning of the abbreviation si . The same in 177, 301, 496, 501, 546 , 774 .
292 — edificatorum] edificiorurn
300 — demum] deinde . This is the meaning of the abbr . deifi . Also in 402, 602, 633
378 — iunctur] iuvetur 383 — inconnota] in quot a
436 — coarcat] coartat . Also in 58 5 43 8 — nota] notat
55 6 — primo] illo . This is the meaning of O . 619 — degluciret] deglutiret
688 — reddit] reddidi t 698 scientibus] sitientibus .
In 269necessario need not be changed intonecessarie .
Sometimes evident faults in the ms . should have been pointed out : 396a — proficitur] proficiscitur
462 — scientibus] scientes, cl . 79 1 477 — conteranda] conculcanda(?)
144
483 — insustinabilis] insustentabilis 507 — immitandam] invitandam (? ) 586 — accedat] accedi t
788 — transgiversatione, " corrected " into transivergatione] tergi-versatione .
In several cases the reading of the ms . should have raised suspicion , if only out of respect for Geert Grote who knew his Latin better tha n most of us .
16 — preganda] precanda (? )
45 — libro] libero (in the note as well 1 ) 5o —quis] quivis makes the sentence righ t
115 — torus] corpus, which gives an understandable metaphor e with caput and membr a
163 — mains] magis (? )
231 — propter querulosas volentes et intentes] probably mean s propter querulosas voces et intentas
247 — instrumentis] vel diversis instrumentis, cl. 274 288 — cidente] concidente (?) .
The number of words that will interest the lexicographer is not very great :
182 — congruo as an adverb (cf. 63o congrue, 26g necessario) 419 — dissuetiu s
68g and 7o8 manus heir or rightful claimant .
In z68 and 510 I do not understand the word " gessa " in " quando temporalia erant promissa et exercitia externa gessa " and " plura eis temporalia assignantur propter providendum pauperibus quam in lege mosayca secundum litteram gessa ministris deputabantur .
There are very few printing errors : i6 alioquin ; 136 gloria ; 47 3 revocatur ; 522 usus ; 565 attendenda .
's-Gravenhage
