Translating the Fama Fraternitatis:

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" Translating the Fama Fraternitatis: "
Christopher McIntosh

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1064674
Doc. No	:	LA108303
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15700593-01401002‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Christopher McIntosh
Title & Author	:	Translating the Fama Fraternitatis: [Article] : Pitfalls, Problems and Challenges\ Christopher McIntosh
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Aries
Date	:	2014
Volume/ Issue Number	:	14/1
Page No	:	20–31
Abstract	:	‭Despite the importance of the Fama Fraternitatis as a primary source for the study of Rosicrucian history, contemporary scholars still use the 1652 ‘Vaughan’ edition as the standard English translation of the text, despite its many flaws. As other more recent English editions of the Fama are also unreliable, the author has undertaken the task of producing a scholarly translation. In this article some of the mistranslations and ambiguities of the Vaughan edition of the Fama are identified, and some suggestions for their more accurate rendering are put forward as a foretaste of the author’s new translation. The bibliographical history of the German and English manuscript editions of the Fama is also briefly outlined.‬ ‭Despite the importance of the Fama Fraternitatis as a primary source for the study of Rosicrucian history, contemporary scholars still use the 1652 ‘Vaughan’ edition as the standard English translation of the text, despite its many flaws. As other more recent English editions of the Fama are also unreliable, the author has undertaken the task of producing a scholarly translation. In this article some of the mistranslations and ambiguities of the Vaughan edition of the Fama are identified, and some suggestions for their more accurate rendering are put forward as a foretaste of the author’s new translation. The bibliographical history of the German and English manuscript editions of the Fama is also briefly outlined.‬
Descriptor	:	Fama Fraternitatis
Descriptor	:	Johann Valentin Andreae
Descriptor	:	Rosicrucian manifestos
Descriptor	:	Rosicrucianism
Descriptor	:	Thomas Vaughan
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15700593-01401002‬