"Si sequeris casum, casus frangit tibi nasum": la raccolta delle sorti del ms Ashmole 304

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AEVUM

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AEVUM - 2011 - 2

Titolo

"Si sequeris casum, casus frangit tibi nasum": la raccolta delle sorti del ms Ashmole 304

Autore

Allegra Iafrate

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Vita e Pensiero

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05-2011

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0001-9593 (stampa) | 1827-787X (digitale)

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SUMMARY: A small manuscript, Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Ashmole 304 (13th cent., ante 1259), written and illustrated by Matthew Paris, transmits a collection of six fortune-telling texts, known as sortes. The genre of the sortes and its development in time is discussed in the first part of the article; the second part focuses on the tipology and linguistical features of each of these tracts. The presence of untranslated or misunderstood Arabic, Hebrew and Romance terms is especially remarkable and suggests a circulation of these texts in the Mediterranean area during the Middle Ages. These sortes, officially prohibited, slowly became luxury items, eventually probably used also as passtimes.