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V.—Walter Map's De Nugis Curialium: its Plan and Composition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

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Walter Map's De Nugis Curialium, which is preserved in a unique manuscript of the latter part of the fourteenth century, has been twice edited; in 1850 by Thomas Wright, and in 1914 most admirably by Dr. Montague Rhodes James. It is apparent, even to the casual reader, that the work was not written continuously from beginning to end, but was redacted from fragments composed at various times and at various degrees of leisure; both editors, however, assume that Map himself arranged the fragments and published the book substantially as it now stands, though Dr. James fully appreciates the formlessness of the work, and admits that “the plan … . is to seek.”

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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1917

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