Abstract
This paper analyses from a material and textual viewpoint the four preserved manuscripts containing the Doctrina moral , a work written in the first half of the 15th century by a man from Majorca from the Pacs family. The study of these copies gives us new information about some of the most controversial aspects of this work, such as authorship and date. The two witnesses owned by the Bibliotheque Nationale de France are related to the Italian city of Naples, while the manuscript of the Biblioteca de Catalunya could have been in possession of a branch of the Pacs family, the Conilleres. The codex of the Arxiu de la Corona d’Arago, edited by Bofarull (1857), presents a more innovative copy, with many different lessons from the other three witnesses.
Highlights
This paper analyses from a material and textual viewpoint the four preserved manuscripts containing the Doctrina moral, a work written in the first half of the 15th century by a man from Majorca from the Pacs family
The two witnesses owned by the Bibliothèque Nationale de France are related to the Italian city of Naples, while the manuscript of the Biblioteca de Catalunya could have been in possession of a branch of the Pacs family, the Conilleres
Teresa Ferrer i Mallol (Barcelona: Institut d’Estudis Catalans), pp. 285-99
Summary
La Doctrina moral és un recull de sentències d’autoritats ordenades temàticament que un home de Mallorca compilà per a l’educació dels seus fills. Si fins ara la crítica no s’ha dedicat gaire a l’estudi d’aquest text, quan ho ha fet s’ha centrat en aspectes puntuals com la identificació de l’autor o l’anàlisi de les fonts que s’hi citen.[1] En el primer camp, Riera (1979) destaca les diverses solucions antroponímiques amb què és esmentat l’autor d’aquesta obra. Anteriors, com són Arnau de Vilanova, Francesc Eiximenis, Antoni Canals i Cerverí de Girona.[5] És evident que, a banda de les autoritats catalanes que acabem d’esmentar, l’autor de la Doctrina moral no acudí un a un a la resta dels autors citats, sinó que emprà algunes de les nombroses compilacions d’època baixmedieval, que ja contenien aquestes mateixes sentències organitzades, en la majoria de casos, també temàticament. En les pròximes pàgines ens centrarem en un altre àmbit; concretament, l’estudi de la transmissió textual de la Doctrina moral
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