Authority Cited: Westmonasteriensis, Matt.
Author name and dates: Matthew Paris (c.1200-1259)
BKG Bio-tweet: Well-connected Benedictine monk; Hertfordshire English chronicler, cartographer, artist; SJ quotes Latin on Lady Godiva hair
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: One Westmonasteriensis cite in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. Two parallel Flores Historiarum manuscript texts are now known. One attributed to Roger of Wendover and the second thought to be perhaps based on Roger of Wendover, but edited and added to by Matthew Paris. Both had later augmentations. As far as I can determine, the only early (before the Dictionary) printed version was the title below, with which Matthew Paris is associated.]
Dict. text: "Matt. Westmonasteriensis says of Godiva of Coventry, that she rode tricas capitis & crines dissolvens."
Source text: "... crines capitis & tricas dissolvens ...."]
Barry Baldwin has kindly provided the following:
"tricas = tangles
capitis = of or on the head
crines = hairs
dissolvens = loosening
Tricas should logically come first, since Lady G would need to disentangle before shaking her tresses loose enough to conceal her nudity…"
Author name and dates: Matthew Paris (c.1200-1259)
BKG Bio-tweet: Well-connected Benedictine monk; Hertfordshire English chronicler, cartographer, artist; SJ quotes Latin on Lady Godiva hair
Categories (list of works cited – preliminary) [BKG Note: One Westmonasteriensis cite in 1755 Dict. vol. 2. Two parallel Flores Historiarum manuscript texts are now known. One attributed to Roger of Wendover and the second thought to be perhaps based on Roger of Wendover, but edited and added to by Matthew Paris. Both had later augmentations. As far as I can determine, the only early (before the Dictionary) printed version was the title below, with which Matthew Paris is associated.]
- [Flores Historiarum: per Matthaeus Westmonasteriencem; Collecti Praecipue' de rebus Britanni - cis ab exordio mundi usque ad Annum Domini 1307. Londini: Ex officina Thomæ Marshij, Anno Domini 1570], Vol.1, p. 424; trick (Lat. trica)
Dict. text: "Matt. Westmonasteriensis says of Godiva of Coventry, that she rode tricas capitis & crines dissolvens."
Source text: "... crines capitis & tricas dissolvens ...."]
Barry Baldwin has kindly provided the following:
"tricas = tangles
capitis = of or on the head
crines = hairs
dissolvens = loosening
Tricas should logically come first, since Lady G would need to disentangle before shaking her tresses loose enough to conceal her nudity…"