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Translat Library @translatlibrary.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

In vol. 8, no. 2, Lluís Cabré and Jaume Torró (ILCC-U de Girona) reflect on the casuistry of error in the transmission of poetry while emending a number of passages in medieval Catalan verse. DOI: doi.org/10.7275/tl.3...

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Translat Library @translatlibrary.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

In the first article of vol. 8 (2026), Daniel Álvarez Gómez (U Europaea, Andorra) edits and studies Vicent Mariner's 1639 translation into Latin of Gorgias's _Encomium of Helen_ . doi.org/10.7275/tl.3...

First page of Álvarez Gómez's edition of Vicent Mariner's 1639 translation of Gorgias's _Encomium of Helen_.

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Translat Library @translatlibrary.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

As 2025 draws to a close, let’s take a look at the research Translat Library has published over the past year. 👇👇👇

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Translat Library @translatlibrary.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

In vol. 7, no. 5, Paulina León (UC Berkeley), @sierramatute.bsky.social (Baruch C), and John Slater (Colorado State U) study and edit a pamphlet that parodies Don Quixote to intervene in the dispute surrounding the 1680 epidemic outbreak in El Puerto de Santa María. doi.org/10.7275/tl.3...

Front page of La verdad encantada en el Castillo de la Confusión. Por otro nombre: Peste del Puerto

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Translat Library @translatlibrary.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

In vol. 7, no. 4, Giovanni Cascio (U di Messina) studies an intriguing reworking of Francesco Petrarca’s "Liber sine nomine" in which Italy and the main Italian cities mentioned in Petrarch's epistles are replaced by Prussia and the town of Olsztyn in Warmia. doi.org/10.7275/tl.3...

A Fifteenth-Century Warmian Reworking
of Petrarch’s Liber sine nomine
GIOVANNI CASCIO
Università degli Studi di Messina
ABSTRACT: This article examines a reworking of Francesco Petrarca’s Liber sine
nomine transmitted in a group of three mid-fifteenth-century manuscripts of German
provenance—namely, Gdańsk, Biblioteka Gdańska Polskiej Akademii Nauk, 1947;
Leipzig, Universitätsbibliothek, 1260; and Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm
5354. The article brings to light the mechanisms of this rewriting—in which Italy and
the principal Italian cities mentioned in Petrarch’s epistles Sine nomine are replaced by
Prussia and the town of Olsztyn in Warmia—as well as its likely ideological aims.
The study also considers the possible origin of this textual reworking and the historical
and cultural context in which it may be situated.
KEYWORDS: Petrarch, Liber sine nomine, Prussia, Warmia, Olsztyn, Textual
Reworking, Textual Criticism.
The Liber sine nomine (Book without a name; cited as Sine nom.),1 a
collection of nineteen letters written from 1341 to the late
1350s but not assembled until the end of 1359 or early 1361

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Translat Library @translatlibrary.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

In TL 7.3 Montserrat Ferrer (UAB) edits and studies a 15th-C. fictional letter in Catalan, supposedly written by Scipio Africanus and addressed to Cicero, as an early witness to the practice of letter writing and to Cicero’s prominence as both a rhetorical and moral model doi.org/10.7275/tl.3...

Manuscript Letter edited and studied by Montserrat Ferrer

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Translat Library @translatlibrary.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

In TL 7.2, Paula Plastić (U of Adelaide) edits & studies a copy of a royal decree sent to the City of Valencia outlining the protocol for mourning Margaret of Austria, queen of Spain (1584–1611)—a decree that contributed to the construction of the late queen’s public image. doi.org/10.7275/tl.3...

Image of royal decree sent to the City of Valencia outlining the protocol for mourning Margaret of Austria, queen of Spain (1584–1611)

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Translat Library @translatlibrary.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Our first issue of 2025 marks a milestone—our debut publication in French! In it Albert Tomàs Monsó (Sorbonne U) studies the ca. 1383 anonymous medieval Catalan translation of The City of God and edits book VI. doi.org/10.7275/tl.2...

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Translat Library @translatlibrary.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

It is time to recap the work we have published during 2024. Manuscripts, translations, glosses, fragments, early editions, unpublished texts, and more. 👇👇👇

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Translat Library @translatlibrary.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

In the last article of vol. 6 Josep Pujol (U Autònoma de Barcelona) studies a fragment of a 13th-C. French manuscript of Ovid’s Heroides that had been reused in the binding of a later manuscript. The fragments include Ovid's text, an accessus, a marginal commentary, and interlinear glosses.

An fragment of Ovid's text that had been reused in the binding of a later manuscript. The manuscript was visibly cut to be inserted in the binding. The text is organized in three uneven columns. It features probae pennae.

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MLN Journal @mlnjournal.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Starter pack for journals of literary scholarship. Please share so we can add to the list as more journals create accounts here. go.bsky.app/2Asc5P2

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Translat Library @translatlibrary.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Call for Papers: Translat Library, vol. 7 (2025) tinyurl.com/Translat-Library-CFP-2025

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Translat Library @translatlibrary.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

3) In vol. 6, n. 6, Javier Lorenzo (East Carolina U) studies the transmission of Gregorio Hernández de Velasco's 16th-C. Spanish translation of Jacopo Sannazaro's 'De partu Virginis.' doi.org/10.7275/tl.2...

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Translat Library @translatlibrary.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

2) In vol. 6, n. 5, Maria Teresa Laneri (U di Sassari) describes a fourteenth-century manuscript (Alghero, Biblioteca Comunale «Rafael Sari», ms. 58) containing works by Virgil, Dante, Petrarch, the pseudo-Virgilian 'Moretum,' and two anonymous poems. doi.org/10.7275/tl.2...

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Translat Library @translatlibrary.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

1) TL, 6.4, William M. Barton (U Innsbruck) edits & translates a letter in ancient Greek & Latin by the Valencian Hellenist Vicente Mariner (1617), which documents his efforts to publish Mariner's translations of Byzantine Greek. doi.org/10.7275/tl.2...

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Translat Library @translatlibrary.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

While were were absent from here, we published three additional notes:

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Translat Library @translatlibrary.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

Just published! In vol. 6, no 7, Marta Materni (Università della Tuscia) edits and studies a newly identified fragment of Aimon de Varennes’ /Roman de Florimont/ discovered in 2020 as a guard leaf of a 15th-C. manuscript (Paris, BnF, nouv. acq. lat. 1034). doi.org/10.7275/tl.2...

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Translat Library @translatlibrary.bsky.social · 13/03/2024

In vol. 6, no. 3, Jacopo Pesaresi (U Bologna) unearths a 15th-C. epic poem linked to the Rimini court of Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta. doi.org/10.7275/tl.2...

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Translat Library @translatlibrary.bsky.social · 18/02/2024

New article (by Alexander Fidora, ICREA-UAB) on the origin and significance of one of the few examples of reception of rabbinic literature in medieval Catalan, the fragment titled “De sacrefiçis,” at the Biblioteca del Cabildo, Burgo de Osma doi.org/10.7275/tl.1...

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Translat Library @translatlibrary.bsky.social · 08/02/2024

Newspapers are reporting on research published in @translatlibrary.bsky.social :) [ doi.org/10.7275/tl.1... ] llegim.ara.cat/actualitat/d...

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Translat Library @translatlibrary.bsky.social · 23/01/2024

In the first issue of vol. 6, Clara Pascual-Argente (Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès) identifies the first known reference to the story of Floire and Blancheflor in a Carolingian context in Castile (ca. 1348). Come and take a look: doi.org/10.7275/tl.1981

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Translat Library @translatlibrary.bsky.social · 29/12/2023

As we are about to bid farewell to 2023, we would like to take a moment to recap the amazing work we have published this year.🧵👇

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Translat Library @translatlibrary.bsky.social · 11/12/2023

In the last article of vol. 5, Miriam Cabré and Sadurní Martí (Universitat de Girona) identify a previously unknown fragmentary songbook at the Archives of Barcelona Cathedral. It transmits 17 troubadour poems, mainly the work of Peire Cardenal. doi.org/10.7275/tl.1873

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Translat Library @translatlibrary.bsky.social · 09/12/2023

We have moved to a new digital platform, check it out! openpublishing.library.umass.edu/tl/

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Translat Library @translatlibrary.bsky.social · 10/11/2023

Translat Library and all the other open access journals published by the University of Massachusetts Libraries will soon move to a new site powered by Janeway. Stay tuned to watch our home makeover!

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