Revisiting the Codex Buranus: Contents, Contexts, Compositions ed. by Tristan E. Franklinos and Henry Hope (review)

Abstract

the lion’s share of manuscripts acquired are from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In sum, François Pic has provided scholars with a volume that sheds a good deal of light on the acquisitions and acquisition policies of the CIDO during its formative years, though these are not described in detail. Some of that momentum has been continued by the CIRDOC; access to the materials is facilitated by resources such as Calames and also by the CIRDOC itself, which has posted some of its collection online (see MS 13, which the CIRDOC calls the Chansonnier de Méry de Vic, on Occitanica, https:// occitanica.eu/items/show/1849). For the scholar interested in Occitan literature and/or the history of the CIRDOC, the volume is an important acquisition. For medievalists, its utility is less obvious. For scholars of bibliography, this book is a study in itself.