The Revelationes of Pseudo-Methodius in the Eighth Century

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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.Michael W.HerrenThe Revelationes of Pseudo-Methodius in the Eighth Centuryhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/D27GNZBFhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/D27GNZBFhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/D27GNZBFGuyGuldentopsChristianLaesGertPartoensFelici curiositate: Studies in Latin Literature and Textual Criticism from Antiquity to the Twentieth Century in Honour of Rita BeyersTurnhoutBrepols2017409-418Instrumenta Patristica et Mediaevalia 72This essay outlines the eighth-century distribution of copies of the Latin translation of the Revelationes of Pseudo-Methodius. If one takes into account a lost copy attested for the library of Bobbio, the pattern shows a distribution throughout the Columbanian foundations and associated Schottenklöster – Bobbio, St Gall, Reichenau, Tegernsee, Salzburg and Luxeuil (assuming that Bern, Burgerbibliothek 611, was written at that centre). Eighth-century copies also made their way to Tuscany and a centre in France. The earliest user of the Latin version was the author of The Cosmography of Aethicus Ister who pretended to be St Jerome. A case can be made that Ps. Jerome finished his book at Bobbio before the middle of the eighth century. The essay advances a textual argument that the lost Bobbio copy (Bo) is to be identified with Bern 611 (B) or else is related to it. The argument impugns the case that the existence of B, because it is the oldest dated copy (a. 727) and written in East Francia, proves that Petrus Monachus, the author of the Latin translation, had to have written it in that area. Given the lack of evidence for the study of Greek in eighth-century Merovingian Francia, it seems more plausible to assume that the translator worked in an Italian centre and received his Greek text from a Greek source to which his own house had a connection. Herren, Michael W. “The Revelationes of Pseudo-Methodius in the Eighth Century.” In Felici Curiositate: Studies in Latin Literature and Textual Criticism from Antiquity to the Twentieth Century in Honour of Rita Beyers, edited by Guy Guldentops, Christian Laes, and Gert Partoens, 409–18. Instrumenta Patristica et Mediaevalia 72. Turnhout: Brepols, 2017. Michael W. Herren, The Revelationes of Pseudo-Methodius in the Eighth Century,” in Felici Curiositate: Studies in Latin Literature and Textual Criticism from Antiquity to the Twentieth Century in Honour of Rita Beyers, ed. Guy Guldentops, Christian Laes, and Gert Partoens, Instrumenta Patristica et Mediaevalia 72 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2017), 409–18.Apocalypse of Pseudo-MethodiusSyriac influence [Europe]VII-XVIII CEVIII CEapocalypticismeschatology