The Anglo-Norman Vegetius: a thirteenth century translation of the De re militari

521 Pages·1962·57.29 MB·English

by  Lionel Kenneth Carley

Carley, Lionel Kenneth (1962) The Anglo-Norman
Vegetius: a thirteenth century translation of the "De re
militari". PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.
Access from the University of Nottingham repository:
http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/13648/1/573145.pdf
Copyright and reuse:
The Nottingham ePrints service makes this work by researchers of the University of
Nottingham available open access under the following conditions.
This article is made available under the University of Nottingham End User licence and may
be reused according to the conditions of the licence. For more details see:
http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/end_user_agreement.pdf
For more information, please contact [email protected]
THE ANGLO-NORMAN VEGE'rIUS
A Thirteenth Century Translation of the
"De Re Militari" of Flavius Vegetius RenatuB
Edited,
with Introduction, Notes, and Glossary, by
LIONEL K. CARLEY, B.A.
Thesis submitted to the University of Nottingham
for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. May 1962
,
BEST COpy
. I ..
, . AVAILABLE
. .
. .
. Variable print quality
The Anglo-Norman Vegetius
Edited by
L.K. Carley, B.A.
SYNOPSIS
The thesis is divided into three main sections i) Intro-
duction ii) Text iii) Critical Notes and Glossary.
The frontispiece shows the title page of the Anglo-Norman MS
translation of Vegetiusl De re militari.
i) Introduction: In the opening two chapters, the histor-
ical setting of the translation is exam-
ined. First, the background to the writing in the fourth
century of the original Latin text is established, and an
outline is given of the substance of the text; then a study
is made of the Vegetian tradition in France from the later
years of the thirteenth century to the present day. The manu-
script, its date and its authorship are discussed in Chapters
; and 4. Then the value of the French text as a translation
is discussed. The sixth and longest chapter examines the lan-
guage of the translation, noting points of divergence from
Continental French which generally fit into the pattern of
Anglo-Norman usage. A short chapter is given over to out-
lining the plan followed in establishing the text of this
edition. The Notes to the Introduction conclude this part of
the thesis.
ii) Text: The text is basically that of Add.MS.1. of the
Marlay Collection of the ,B'tizwilliam Museum,
Cambridge. This is a unique manuscript. Corrections and
emendations, which have been kept to a bare minimum, are
shown in the footnotes.
iii) Critical Notes and Glossary The Critical Notes are
designed to amplify and
clarify the text. Extensive reference is made to the Latin
original, and many difficult or obscure passages are trans-
lated into English.
The Notes are followed by a Select Glossary and an Index
of Proper Names.
Two appendices list the various manuscripts of the
mediaeval French translations of Vegetius, together with
certain additional Latin manuscripts of the De re militari.
The volume ends with a list of the principal works
consulted in the preparation of this thesis.
1c· ere "t ~ ",\,1 ,. .fo
\ Hl~ p~l'~UlC ., ~ Ii
tt luut 'te "ftft
Ha t\ 1~1 ~~\ u .C11 (J'dl0f({
;1izt\ t urrencnr djmalcrrc- c-~ menrref ~ 1"
d 01~
Itf\\\\ JCll\mnCllC~~.
nt ht re-
Itt\nc{tht'tttl{ cttthullC' "f~ltorO\'~t~{
~ rr. (~
qwr-
~~. metn'C'en ~ teerout! ttl1> e 1\ tUte1Cltt1
I
~ twtUl"'ltilrti'utei l'Ufcntd),cnt tt{ pl.tt/\m·1tAt·
,. '1'~""
1-ert' n~ a~yv .romcu(t ·ttflClUemnC1tv t\ ruf ~n tu .
~:\tl Uml~ ne {ttC\tt~tt' ~"l\t P2Ut(C ~tt\m~ rid
o~,~.
t4\~t\llul ne (Ot\.t\\t' (t\ut:\·mallnrf ~~f~f'It' '
~I tm
'\'tutl,\)( \t.c tl nre ~ ttl tt -re pu," ~ 'ktet {c-ntVtlf
{~f!oftm"~ tow: fA rom letm~teC
I~\t{l O)tro .
I .
\ten·,·t\v Z\um:( wnC nUltOU'l\.t tuy U~lti le-
tt~e{
o .i
,
-iii-
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I wish primarily to express my gratitude to my supervisor,
Professor Lewis Thorpe, for initiating me into the study
of Anglo-Norman and for offering guidance and encourage-
ment throughout every phase of my work on this thesis.
For their kind advice and suggestions my best thanks are
extended to Miss Phyllis Giles, Librarian of the Fitz-
william Museum, Cambridge, to Professor ~. Hasselrot and
o.
Docent S~dergArd, of the University of Uppsala, and to
Professor R.~. Tate and Mr. G.R. Watson, of the University
of Nottingham.
Finally, I am indebted to my sister, Mrs. Joan Pallister,
for her assistance with the typing of this thesis.
L.K.C.
The Frontispiece is reproduced by kind permission of the
Syndics of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
-iv-
CONTENTS
i
TITLE
FRONTISPIECE The Title-Page of the Anglo-Norman
VegetiuB (fo1.3r. of MS. Marlay Add. I,
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge) ii
iii
ACKNOWLEDG El'ilESNT
iv-v
CONTENTS
PART I. INTRODUCTION pp. 1-150
1. The 'De re militari' of Vegetiu8 (Historical
background, The text and its sources,
Author, Date) 1
2. The French versions of the 'De re militari' 15
3. The Fitzwilliam Vegetius (Description of MS,
Composition of MS, Corrections and
40
alterations, Capitals, Miniatures)
4. Date and authorship of the Fitzwilliam Vegetius 47
5. Translation 59
6. Language (Phonology, Orthography,
Morphology and syntax) 73
-v-
7. Establishment of text 132
NOTES to Introduction 136
PART II. TEXT pp. 1-155
Book I 1
Book II 33
Book III 63
Book IV 126
Book V 144
PART Ill. NOTES AND GLOSSARY pp. 156-343
Critical Notes 156
Glossary 310
Index of Proper Names 336
APPENDICES pp. 344-352
I. Vegetius The Mediaeval French MSS 344
II. Vegetius: Eight Latin MSS 341
Ill. List of Principal Works Consulted 348
PART I
INTRODUCTION