La Vie de sainte Katherine1 de Jean Miélot (1457) - Prolégomènes à une édition critique

Abstract

The manuscript BnF, fr. 6449 constitutes the unique known copy of Jean Mie ́lot's Vie de sainte Katherine (1457), a complete biography of this Saint, native of the Egyptian town of Alexandria, which the Burgundian canon set into the context of the Roman history of the fourth century. This article highlights the interest of this work through a presentation of the manuscript, an investigation surrounding the Latin sources of the text, as well as an examination of the language and translation techniques by Mie ́lot; it provides so a preliminary study to the critical edition of the Vie.