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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Abstract of Thesis 2
Acknowledgements
PREFACE
Chapter I: The Relationships between the Translations 16
Summary
Introduction 1 17
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I Affinities between the French and Spanish Magdalene
Texts
Divergencies and affinities in word-order,
syntax, lexis and adaptation 22
(ii) Cases of addition and amplification common
to C and Sp, but not shared by B and D 26
(iii) Omission s common to C and Sp 27
(iv) Case' of translation error common only to
C and Sp 29
(v) 'Features of Sp only explicable if C is
assumed to be its source 30
II Affinities between the French and Spanish Martha
Texts 32
(i) Divergencies and affinities in word-order,
syntax, lexis and adaptation 32
(ii) Cases of addition and amplification shared by
F and Sp, but not in either E or C5 36
(iii) Omissions and contractions found only in
F and Sp 39
iv) Translation errors common to F and Sp 42
(v) Features of the Sp Martha life explicable
only-if F is posited as its source 43
III Affinities between the Latin and Spanish Magdalene
Texts
(i) Parallels in word-order and syntax between
the Latin and Spanish texts 47
ii) Lexical parallels between B and Sp 48
iii) Cases in which B and Sp agree in not having
additions present in C
(iv) Cases where B and Sp agree in not having
omissions,. which are exclusive to C 53
v) Deviations-in C not found in B and Sp 54
vi)" Alternate omissions in C and Sp 55
vii) Different renderings in C and Sp of Latin
expressions 56
(viii) Cases where the Spaniard seems to have turned
to a Latin text after failing to understand C 59
(ix) Errors and deviations in Sp which seem to
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originate in Latin
Ca h
rather than in French
x ses w ere differing translations in C and
Sp are reflected in different readings in
the Latin MSS 63
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