Affiliations of Texts of Ancrene Wisse: What They Tell Us about Its Origins

Ancrene Wisse（“修女指南”），一个工作最初写于13世纪，生存在英语，法语和拉丁语版本，并证明在十七手稿证人。1976年E.多布森提出了一个文本关系的词干，它概述了整个传统。然而，正如他所承认的，它是基于选定段落的试验校对。有必要回到传统的文本历史方法，建立在他的洞察力的关系，那里有确定的援助，严格可比的段落。我的研究结果清楚地表明，他的stemma有许多问题，我建议一些修订，其中多布森的stemma needs.A详细检查的隶属关系的文本显示，有大量的复制品在第一个半世纪后，原来的组成。这是很有可能的作者是多米尼加虽然多布森保持工作的密切联系与奥古斯丁。我进行了研究，主要是在手稿室的大英图书馆和剑桥大学图书馆。在剑桥大学图书馆的善本室里，我能够接触到对我的工作非常有用的书籍和期刊;我获得了许多关于中世纪晚期修道院、修士和修女的资料的缩微胶片和影印本;我有机会邀请两位来自国外的优秀中世纪历史和文学学者在关西大学举办一个关于古英语古文字的中世纪研讨会。我还参加了英国和美国的许多会议，就我的研究和相关主题与人们进行讨论和交流。和田洋子主编的《智慧祖先之书》于2003年出版，是编辑和四国学者为该书新近撰写的论文集。

Ancrene Wisse ('a guide for nuns'), a work originally written in the thirteenth century, survives in English, French, and Latin versions and is attested in seventeen manuscript witnesses. In 1976 E. J. Dobson made a stemma of textual relationships which laid out an overview of the whole tradition. However, as he admitted, it was based on trial collations of selected passages. It is necessary to return to traditional text-historical methods, building on his insights into the relationships where there were determined with the aid of strictly comparable passages. Results of my research clearly show that his stemma has many problems; I have suggested some revision which Dobson's stemma needs.A detailed examination of the affiliations of the texts has revealed that there was a substantial multiplication of copies within the first half-century after the original was composed. It is very likely that the author was Dominican although Dobson maintained the work's strong connection with the Augustinians.I have conducted research mainly in the manuscript room of British Library and Cambridge University Library. At the rare-books room of Cambridge University Library I was able to have access to books and periodicals very useful to my work; I obtained many microfilms and photocopies of materials on monasteries, friars, and nuns in the late Middle Ages.I had a chance to invite two excellent scholars of medieval history and literature from abroad to hold a medieval seminar on Old English paleography at Kansai University. I also attended many conferences in Britain and the States to have discussions and exchange ideas with people about my research and related topics. A Book of Ancrene Wisse, which was edited by Yoko Wada and published in 2003, is a collection of essays newly written for the book by the editor and scholars from four countries.