Chapter I luoghi della Terra Santa nella Bible d’Acre: sulle glosse del codice Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, nouv. acq. fr. 1404

Abstract

The contribution proposes an analysis of a selection of toponymic glosses to the Bible d’Acre (BA) contained in the ms. Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, nouv. acq. fr. 1404 and in the ms. of the Occitan version Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, fr. 2426 and examines some aspects concerning their transmission, in order to verify the validity of the hypotheses formulated by previous critics. The article discusses, on the one hand, the presence of some inaccurate indications, which reveal a concrete difficulty in locating biblical toponyms no longer in use, and identifies, on the other hand, the main sources d’Outremer from which the glosses would have been drawn, in order to demonstrate that several models and scribes have intervened in the margins of the BA.