Anke Holdenried, The Sibyl and her Scribes: Manuscripts and Interpretation of the Latin 'Sibylla Tiburtina' c.1050- 1500.(Book review)

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Anke Holdenried, The Sibyl and her Scribes: Manuscripts and Interpretation of the Latin 'Sibylla Tiburtina' c.1050-1500 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007). xxvi + 254 pp. ISBN 978-0-7546-3375-6. 55.00[pounds sterling].

The originally Greek prophecy of the Tiburtine Sibyl (anonymous, ad c. 3 78--390) was well known in the Middle Ages. Anke Holdenried's new volume lists some 114 Latin manuscript copies of it, dating from between the mid-eleventh and the sixteenth centuries, and describes its extensive reception by authors such as Godfrey of Viterbo and Matthew Paris; there are also ...

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