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The recent Dictionnaire des régionalismes du français médiéval de l'Est (DRFM) constitutes an analysis of 389 lexemes contained in the corpus Documents linguistiques galloromans (DocLing, including about 2,350 documentary texts). These words represent concepts linked mainly to administration, commerce, and agriculture in the Eastern part of the Galloromance area (Champagne, Lorraine, Bourgogne, and Franche-Comté). More than half of these words are also attested in over 500 non-documentary texts of religious, literary, and practical nature. Such texts are notoriously difficult to localize, however, the regional words they contain aid this process considerably. In the present article, we distinguish three types of lexical regionalisms: « formal », « semantic », and « integral ». In the first section, we clarify the theoretical and phenomenological aspects of this distinction. We discuss the various roles of lexical regionalisms in the localization of non-documentary texts and, more specifically, the relative usefulness of formal regionalisms in this process. In the following sections, we demonstrate two methodological uses of regionalisms in non-documentary texts: 1. the localization of medieval texts or manuscripts (we provide 24 examples) and 2. the clarification or the resolution of ecdotical problems during the preparation of critical editions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay explores the mechanisms linked to the production of specific mistakes and textual alterations in Dunhuang Buddhist manuscripts, which provide information of codicological interest, in particular on the formal characteristics of a manuscript archetype, on its production phases/techniques, and its formal evolution. It also draws attention to the importance of surveying the alterations in the arrangement of textual and paratextual elements by means of a structural analysis revealing manuscript filiation based on formal characteristics, an approach that can help to explore not only the codicological evolution of a book in manuscript form, but also its philological ties with branches of a specific tradition. Résumé: Cet article explore, dans les manuscrits bouddhiques de Dunhuang, les mécanismes associés à la production d' erreurs de copie spécifiques et d' altérations textuelles fournissant des informations d' intérêt codicologique, notamment sur les caractéristiques formelles des archétypes d' un manuscrit, sur ses phases/techniques de production et son évolution formelle. Il attire également l' attention sur l' importance de l' examen des altérations dans la disposition des éléments textuels et paratextuels, par le biais d' une analyse structurale révélant des rapport de filiation entre manuscrits, basés sur leurs caractéristiques formelles, à savoir une approche qui peut aider à explorer non seulement l' évolution codicologique d' un livre manuscrit, mais également ses rapports philologiques avec des branches d' une tradition spécifique. 摘要: 本文就敦煌佛教寫本中特定錯誤及文字改動的生成機制展開研究，並由此揭示其背後所反映的抄本學內涵，尤其是一種原型寫本的形式特征，生成過程與技巧，及其形式上的演變。同時，本文通過一種能夠基於形式特征而推導出寫本之間從屬關係的結構性分析，提高我們對系統調查文本及副文本元素在安排上的改動的重要性。這種方法能助益於我們進一步探究的不僅是作為寫本的書籍在抄本學方面的演變，還有其與一種特定傳統下各種分支之間語文學層面的聯結。 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The romanian manuscript 109 that corresponds to The teachings of Neagoe Basarab to his son Theodosie which we acceded constitutes a significant evidence of the specifities of Romanian documents written in the Cyrillic alphabet and of the techniques that were used by copyists and typographers in order to come from one tongue, in this case, Slavonic, into another one, Romanic, in the eastern part of Europe. Thus, the written form used in the manuscript and, particularly, in « Poveste pentru marele Costandin împărat » reveals, by a careful searching of all the letters and their comparison with its Slavonic equivalent, the existence of noteworthy features. They confirm that Romanian at the time when this manuscript was written is at a stage when most of the parts of speech are established but carry on with their phonological, morphological, lexical and syntactic evolutions and that this tongue is at the crossroads of the eastern and western parts of Europe. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyses Christine de Pizan's inclusion and decoration of the Livre du chemin de lonc estude (Book of the Path of Long Study) in her masterpiece, the Queen's Manuscript, London, British Library, Harley 4431. It shows how she directed the choice and placement of the miniatures in order to foreground the theme of her book as a gift of wisdom. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A literary criticism of the French translation of "Vaticinia de summis pontificibus," a Latin text by Jean Miélot is presented. It outlines various topics related to the text including philological hypotheses, its early codicological analysis and its papal prophecies. An overview of the text is also given.

The article discusses the attitudes of the French middle class or bourgeois class in contrast with the attitudes of city dwellers during the 13th and 14th centuries, with a focus on historical documents and manuscripts from the area of Paris, France which demonstrate aspects of bourgeois culture and literature. Topics include literature in the bourgeois society of late Medieval France, the study of philology and the vernacular language of the Medieval middle class, and the social and cultural aspects of these manuscript collections.

The article discusses the sociological, geological, and cultural context of Medieval manuscript collections, with information on modern textual criticism and interpretation of literature from the Middle Ages. Topics include an analysis of the Medieval literary genre of fabliaux, or comic tales in verse; the historiography of the study of manuscripts from Paris, France; and the study of Medieval literature and codicology for its historical and literary value. Philological studies from the 18th and 19th centuries are discussed.

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The article offers an analysis of clichés and repeated line-fillers in Arthurian verse romance. A formula, which includes a semantic and metrical entity, is considered a device that facilitates versification in the field of medieval French studies. By the 1950s, orality emerged as a specific style and a way of composing. In this analysis, example of formulas will be taken from the Arthurian verse romance "Floriant et Florete."