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Aspects of knowledge: Preserving and reinventing traditions of learning in the Middle Ages

Marilina Cesario and Hugh Magennis

Print publication date: 2018

Print ISBN-13: 9780719097843

Published to Manchester Scholarship Online: January 2019

DOI: 10.7228/manchester/9780719097843.001.0001

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Dream divination in manuscripts and early printed books: patterns of transmission1

Dream divination in manuscripts and early printed books: patterns of transmission1

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(p.23) 1 Dream divination in manuscripts and early printed books: patterns of transmission1
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László Sándor Chardonnens

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Manchester University Press
DOI:10.7228/manchester/9780719097843.003.0002

In the opening chapter Sándor Chardonnens focuses on medieval collections on dream divination. Taking account of a vast corpus of such writings, widely dispersed chronologically and geographically, he argues that alphabetical and thematic dream books, dream lunaries and mantic alphabets belong to the same branch of divination, that of oneiromancy, but that they were rarely anthologised in clusters within the same collection. He investigates patterns of transmission of dream divination in manuscripts and early printed texts in order to understand whether the ways in which those three types of dream divination were clustered together may give us an indication of genre awareness.

Keywords:   Dreams, Divination, Oneiromancy, Transmission, Anthology

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