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I. The numbering and the headings of the chapters have gone wrong in the Introduction and also in the body of the text of Ber. It has been corrected as far as possible by comparison with B1. and B2. The source of the trouble is that the first scribe who wrote the whole of the text of Ber., including the Introduction, but not the chapter headings, has given in the Introduction a wrong description of chapter viii., has omitted chapter ix., has run chapters xi. and xii. into one, and has numbered the last chapter xii. instead of xiii. Possibly this is due to the marked Franciscan regard for the number xii. The second scribe had no difficulty in filling in the right headings in the spaces left in the text up to and including chapter vii.: she also inserted the heading for chapter xi.; at that point she ceased to insert the headings, probably confused by the Introduction. The third scribe then attempted to complete the headings and made several mistakes. She numbered as ix. the chapter which should be viii.; she then inserted a chapter heading numbered x., where no space had been left for any heading. She put in an appropriate heading on page 107, but failed to number it ix., and an appropriate heading on page iii, but not numbered x.
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- Some New Sources for the Life of Blessed Agnes of BohemiaIncluding a Fourteenth-Century Latin Version (Bamberg, Misc. Hist. 146, E. VII, 19): and a Fifteenth-Century German Version (Berlin, Germ. Oct. 484), pp. 169 - 174Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1915