Césaire of Heisterbach

Taking as a starting point a review of the edition of the "Alphabetum narrationum" by Arnold de Liège, in CCCM 160, Turnhout, 2015, the essay returns to some fundamental questions and offers new information. These include the sources of the Alphabetum and their editorial treatment; the originality that can reasonably be attributed to Arnold and the meaning of the label “Narrator” in his collection; the editorial approach adopted in the CCCM edition; new details about the Parisian exemplar of this work (around 1308) in the light of the results of new surveys; and the historical contextualization of exempla, tested through a case study. The essay is supplemented, in the appendix, by a preliminary evaluation of the two Brussels manuscripts identified by the reviewers.

Link to the article onlie: https://www.brepolsonline.net/doi/pdf/10.1484/J.JML.5.118576
Link to the review by I. Draelants and Th. Falmagne: https://www.brepolsonline.net/doi/abs/10.1484/J.MLC.5.114821
Link to the response by J.Berlioz, M.A. Polo de Beaulieu and J. Schmitt: https://www.brepolsonline.net/doi/abs/10.1484/J.MLC.5.116547