This edition presents the quatrain version of The Gast of Gy as found in MS Magdalen Pepys 2125 (folios 131('r)-139('r)) with variants incorporated from MS University of Leeds Brotherton 501 (folios 92('r)-99('v)) and MS Boies-Penrose 6 (folio 175('v)). The Pepys account was chosen as the copy text on the bases of accuracy, consistency, and completeness. The edited text is accompanied by an apparatus criticus; a full introduction describing the date, origin, authorship, and socio-historic background of the piece; textual-explanatory notes and glossary. This 1,546 line poem is a late fourteenth/early fifteenth century English translation of a Latin tract entitled De Spiritu Guidonis. The story is set in Alesen-Garde (Southern France) in 1323 and recounts a dialogue between a Dominican prior and a ghost from purgatory. The prior questions the ghost on a wide range of subjects related to the nature of purgatory, and the revenant gives authoritative replies based upon his personal experiences in the otherworld. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 45-09, Section: A, page: 2868. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1984.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_75404 |
| Creators | Eleazer, Ed |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English, English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 254 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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