Le Protévangile de Jacques latin dans l’homélie Inquerendum est pour la fête de la Nativité de Marie
Jean-Daniel Kaestli
This article is part of a research on the Latin transmission Protevangelium Jacobi. It contains critical edition and French translation homily Inquirendum est, composed for feast Nativity Mary. The text transmits first Jacobi (ch. 1-8), within an homiletical framework. In three six manuscripts used edition, belongs to Carolingian sermonary, known as «homéliaire de Saint-Père Chartres». was originally this some time between 820 950, «in British Isles or at centre Continent where insular influence apparent» (J. E. Cross). author est expanded version (translation II). also represented by other witnesses: Paris manuscript, Sainte-Geneviève 2787 (PJlatG); Infancy Gospels published M. R. James (JAr et JHer, Arundel Hereford forms «J compilation»); Irish narrative Liber Flavus Fergusiorum (InfLFF). Some expansions original are extant in all these texts IIa), example story miraculous revelation Mary’s name (PJ 5,2). shares others peculiarities only with JAr-JHer and/or InfLFF IIb), amplification Joachim’s instruction his shepherds 4,3). Apart from «traditional» elements, present study points out «redactional» features (omitted, rewritten added passages). particularly concerned fact that parents conceived her natural way.
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