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A CHRISTIAN MANNES BILEEVE KARTONIERT (TB)

'A Christian Mannes Bileeve' (CMB) is a vernacular prose commentary on the Apostles' Creed
likely composed in the first half of the fourteenth century. It has received little attention
and has not previously been published. Growing out of a tradition of commentaries on the Creed
the CMB is the longest and most substantial of the four known Middle English versions. In the
CMB  each article of faith is given in Latin with a paraphrase in Middle English followed by a
detailed explanation. It is this feature that makes the CMB distinctive  the explanations
include Latin and English lyric poetry  scriptural verse  exempla  and a range of material
drawn from Latin theological writers such as Augustine  Gregory the Great  Bernard of Clairvaux
and Bonaventure. The CMB was of particular interest to women  of the four manuscripts  three
are known to have been in the possession of aristocratic laywomen and female religious
communities. In its introduction  this volume discusses the manuscripts and their provenance 
language and localization  date and context of the CMB  and the lyrics that are embedded in the
text. The edited text is supported by an apparatus of variant readings  commentary  and a
glossary  followed by a bibliography.

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