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The scale of perfection

Œuvre de Walter Hilton

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Titre:Scala perfectionis; The scale of perfection; The ladder of perfection; Speculum contemplationis
Date:De 1440 à 1447
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Langue:Latin
Genre: 
Forme:Prose
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Incipit:Book I. Incipit liber primus.
Chapter one. The first chapter speaketh that the inner having of man should be like to the outer.
Ghostly sister in Jhesu Christ, I pray thee that in the calling which our Lord hath called thee to His service, thou hold thee paid and stand stead- fastly therein; travailling busily with all the mights of thy soul by grace of Jhesu Christ…
Explicit:… And I do but touch them a little, for wissing of thy soul. For a soul that is clean, stirred by grace to use of this working, may see more in an hour of such ghostly matter, than might be written in a great book.
Traductions:Thomas Fishlake, Scala perfectionis (latin)
Manuscrits
  1. Cambridge, Trinity College Library, B. 15. 18 [⇛ Description]
  2. Cambridge, University Library, Ee IV 30
  3. London, British Library, Harley, 2387
  4. London, British Library, Harley, 6573
  5. London, British Library, Harley, 6579
  6. London, British Library, Lansdowne, 362, f. 2-75 [⇛ Description]
  7. London, Lambeth Palace Library, 472
  8. Oxford, All Souls College Library, 25
    9. (Syon), possess, along with three other manuscripts, the longer text of Book I. Of these three, one, MS. Lambeth 472, was written in London, while the origins of the other two, MSS. Ee IV, 30 and University College 28,
  9. …
Éditions anciennes
  1. The ladder of perfection
    [Westminster], Wynkyn de Worde, 1494
    ARLIMA: EA3819   GW: 12476   ISTC: ih00564000   USTC: 500203
  2. Scala perfectionis
    [London], [Julian Notary], [vers 1507]
    ARLIMA: EA3820   USTC: 500978
  3. Scala perfecconis
    [London], [Wynkyn de Worde], [vers 1519]
    ARLIMA: EA3821   USTC: 518514
  4. Scala perfecconis
    [London], [Wynkyn de Worde], [vers 1525]
    ARLIMA: EA3822   USTC: 501864
  5. Scala perfecconis
    [London], [Wynkyn de Worde], [vers 1533]
    ARLIMA: EA3823   USTC: 502541
    Exemplaire en ligne: [IA]
Éditions modernes
  • The Scale of Perfection. Newly edited from MS. sources with an introduction by Evelyn Underhill, London, Watkins, 1923, lxviii + 464 p. [GB] [HT] [IA]
  • Wykes, Barbara Eleanor, An Edition of Book I of the "Scale of Perfection" by Walter Hilton, Ph. D. dissertation, University of Michigan, 1957.
  • Hussey, S. S., An Edition from the Manuscripts of Book II of Walter Hilton's "Scale of Perfection", Ph. D. thesis, University of London, 1962.
  • Walter Hilton, The Scale of Perfection, edited by Thomas H. Bestul, Kalamazoo, Medieval Institute Publications (Middle English Texts), 2000, vii + 289 p. [metseditions.org] ISBN: 9781580440691
  • Walter Hilton, The Scale of Perfection. Book II. An edition based on British Library Mss Harley 6573 and 6579, begun by S. S. Hussen, completed by M. Sargent, Oxford, Oxford University Press (Early English Text Society. Original Series, 348), 2017, clix + 515 p.
Traductions modernes
  • en allemand:
    • Walter Hilton, Glaube und Erfahrung, eingeleitet von Hans Urs von Balthasar; übersetzt von Elisabeth Strakosch, Einsiedeln, Johannes Verlag (Lectio spiritualis, 10), 1966, 318 p.
  • en anglais:
    • Walter Hilton, The Ladder of Perfection, translated and introduced by Leo Sherley-Price, Penguin (Penguin Classics), 1957.
    • Walter Hilton, The Scale of Perfection, abridged and presented by Illtyd Trethowan, London, Chapman, 1975.
    • Walter Hilton, The Stairway of Perfection, translated by M. L. Del Mastro, New York, Image Books, 1979.
    • Walter Hilton, The Scale of Perfection, translated by John P. H. Clark and Rosemary Dorward, New York, Paulist Press, 1991.
    • Walter Hilton, The Scale of Perfection, translated by Halcyon Backhouse, London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1992.
  • en français:
    • Scala perfectionis par Walter Hilton, traduite par M. Nœtinger et E. Bouvet, Tours, Mame (Mystiques anglais), 1923, 2 t.
Études
  • Baker, Denise, « The image of God: contrasting configuration in Julian of Norwich's Showings and Walter Hilton's Scale of Perfection », Julian of Norwich: A Book of Essay, éd. Sandra McEntire, New York, Garland, 1998.
  • Clark, John, « English and Latin in the Scale of Perfection – theological considerations », Spiritualität Heute und Gestern, éd. James Hogg, Salzburg, Universität Salzburg, 1982, p. 167-212.
  • Cleve, Gunnel, Basic Mystic Themes in Walter Hilton's "Scale of Perfection", Book II, Salzburg, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität Salzburg (Salzburg Studies in English Literature, 92, 19, 2), 1994, vi + 83 p.
  • Crofton, Melissa Ann, Textual Reconstruction: The Deployment of Late Medieval Texts in Early Modern England, Ph. D. dissertation, University of South Carolina, 2011, viii + 145 p. [PQ]
  • Gardner, H., « The text of The Scale of Perfection », Medium Ævum, 5, 1936, p. 11-30.
  • Hodgson, Phyllis, « Walter Hilton and The Cloud of Unknowing: a problem of authorship reconsidered », The Modern Language Review, 50:4, 1955, p. 395-406. DOI: 10.2307/3719273
  • Hussey, S. S., « The text of The Scale of Perfection, book II », Neuphilologische Mitteilungen, 65, 1964, p. 75-92.
  • Hussey, S. S., « Latin and English in the Scale of Perfection », Mediæval Studies, 35, 1973, p. 456-476. DOI: 10.1484/j.ms.2.306151
  • Hussey, S. S., « From Scale I to Scale II », Analecta Carthusiana, 130:4, 1995, p. 46-67.
  • Keiser, George R., « "Noght how lang man lifs; bot how wele": the laity and the Ladder of Perfection », De Cella in Seculum: Religious and Secular Life and Devotion in Late Medieval England, éd. Michael Sargent, Cambridge, Brewer, 1989, p. 145-160.
  • Milosh, Joseph E., The Scale of Perfection and the English Mystical Tradition, Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, 1966.
  • Renevey, Denis, « Name above names: the devotion to the name of Jesus from Richard Rolle to Walter Hilton's Scale of Perfection I », The Medieval Mystical Tradition in England: Exeter Symposium VI, éd. Marion Glasscoe, Cambridge, Brewer, 1999, p. 103-121.
  • Ross, Ellen M., « Submission or fidelity? The unity of church and mysticism in Walter Hilton's Scale of Perfection », The Downside Review, 106:363, 1988, p. 134-144. DOI: 10.1177/001258068810636305
  • Russell-Smith, J., « Walter Hilton and a tract in defence of the veneration of images », Dominican Studies, 7, 1954, p. 180-214.
  • Sargent, Michael G., « Walter Hilton's Scale of Perfection: the London manuscript group reconsidered », Medium Ævum, 52:2, 1983, p. 189-216. DOI: 10.2307/43628731
  • Taylor, Cheryl, « A contemplative community? The Cloud texts and Scale 2 in dialogue », Parergon, 19:2, 2002, p. 81-99.
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