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This edition is designed as a tribute and as a complement to the irreplaceable work of Oscar von Gebhardt, Passio s. Theclae virginis. Die lateinischen Übersetzungen der Acta Pauli et Theclae (1902). It is the result of a new research on the Latin tradition of the Acts of Paul and Thecla (APThe) and intends to increase the accuracy of the apparatus of the Greek text edited by Willy Rordorf and Jean-Daniel Kaestli (to be published in the Corpus christianorum, Series apocryphorum). Two texts are edited, translated and annotated on facing pages. The left page contains a new edition of version A of the Latin APThe, based on three manuscripts : A = Paris, BnF, 5306, fourteenth cent. ; B = Toulouse, Bibl. municipale, 479, fourteenth cent ; Du = Dublin, Trinity College, 174, eleventh cent. For his edition, Gebhardt used A and B, which have been copied from the same model, but Du was hitherto unknown. The right page is devoted to a quasi-diplomatic edition and translation of the Dublin manuscript, which is characterised by largely rewritten passages alternating with passages remaining very close to the original text. The new evidence supplied by Du allows improving in several ways the text edited by Gebhardt as « Übersetzung A ». Du preserves some passages omitted by A B (see in particular chapters 5 and 43) ; it often reflects the original text of latA more accurately than A B ; it contains traces of it even in totally rewritten chapters ; it helps arbitrate between A and B and identify the secondary readings of one or the other. But the Dublin MS is of great interest not only as a valuable witness of version latA, but also as a very original rewriting of the same version. This rewriting presents several noteworthy characteristics. Beside the already mentioned alternation of rewritten and unchanged passages – whose logic is sometimes difficult to grasp – three features are standing out ; (1) direct speech is frequently, but non systematically, changed into indirect speech, with the result that the text is amplified, and not abbreviated as it is normally the case (cf. Monique Goullet, Écriture et réécriture hagiographiques, Turnhout 2005, p. 165) ; (2) the rewriter aims at enhancing the style of the source text ; (3) he strives to anchor the text in the Biblical world, as it happens with hagiographical rewritings of the Carolingian period (cf. M. Goullet, op. cit., p. 35).
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