XXI

SEIGNER COINE, JOIS E PRETZ ET AMORS

(392, 29)

The text has come down in a defective state: st. 5 appears to be incomplete and the expected reply of Conon (st. 6) is lacking. All the MSS. except C derive from a common ancestor which interpolated a spurious line in st. 3. The variants and errors show DIK standing throughout opposed to the remaining MSS. (4, 7, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 19, 20, 23, 24, 27, 31, 32, 36), which divide into the subgroups CE (7, 15, 31, 32) and GQ (6, 12, 16, 20, 23, 24), with T showing affinities with both C (st. 5 lacking, 12, 23, 30) and Q (9, 11, 13, 14, 16, 19, 25, 27, 29, 36). C offers numerous isolated readings which are often erroneous (9, 16, 30) and betray a tendency towards simplification (13, 32); E also has a number of erroneous readings (18, 23, 24, 29, 30), as well as being individualistic (13). The group DIK not only gives an excellent text, but has preserved to a larger extent than the other MSS. vestiges of the original French of Conon’s coblas; in CE these have been entirely eliminated (cf. the notes). The relationships may be summarised as follows: DIEK; CE, GQ, T.

Base and Orthography: D.

 

Constantinople, summer 1204.