The Latin Manuscripts of Alfonso de Espina’s Fortalitium Fidei
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https://doi.org/10.3989/aem.2023.53.2.09Keywords:
codicology, Fortalitium fidei, Alfonso de Espina, manuscripts, medieval theologyAbstract
Although Alfonso de Espina’s Fortalitium fidei, one of the most prominent Latin treatises of religious polemics of fifteenth century Europe, has received much attention from the academic community, only a few scholars have ventured to investigate its manuscript production and circulation. As a result of this, no reliable handlist of the extant Latin manuscripts of the Fortalitium fidei was available until now. This article provides the first critical study of the transmission of the work describing the six complete manuscript witnesses as well as nine excerpts of the text, most of which were unknown until now. In doing so, it also corrects incorrect attributions and establishes a list of lost manuscripts. The article thus offers a solid basis for a future edition of the Fortalitium fidei and for the study of its reception across premodern Europe.
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