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    The Supposed Autographa of John the Scot
    The Supposed Autographa of John the Scot
    The Supposed Autographa of John the Scot
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    The Supposed Autographa of John the Scot

    By Edward Kennard Rand

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      Title: The Supposed Autographa of John the Scot

      Author: Edward Kennard Rand

      Release Date: November 30, 2010 [EBook #34511]

      Language: English

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      CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY

      Vol. 5, No. 8, pp. 135-141, plates 1-11       October 13, 1920

      THE SUPPOSED AUTOGRAPHA OF JOHN THE SCOT

      BY

      EDWARD KENNARD RAND

      In the fifth part of Ludwig Traube's Palaeographische Forschungen, (which I had the honor of publishing after that great scholar's death)[1] evidence was presented for Traube's apparently certain discovery of the very handwriting of John the Scot. In manuscripts of Reims, of Laon, and of Bamberg, he had observed certain marginal notes which were neither omitted sections nor glosses, but rather the author's own amplifications and embellishments of his work. Johannes had made such additions to his De Divisione Naturae in the Reims manuscript, and they all appear in that of Bamberg. In the latter manuscript there are fresh additions—or enlargements as I shall call them in the present paper—which have similarly been absorbed into the text in two manuscripts now in Paris. We thus have, in an interesting series, the author's successive recensions of his work. One of the shorter forms

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