Quaesita Et Desiderata

12. Raymund Clemens is researching a dissertation on the cult of St Mary Magdalen in the 13th and 14th centuries. He is interested in the image of Mary Magdalen presented by the Dominicans, especially those in the royal convent of St Maximin. He is also researching the roles of the ruling house of Provence and the papacy in the establishment of the cult. Anyone with information is asked to send it to him at his home address [see RP(b)] or Internet nrc2@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu.

13. Simon Tugwell asks: In G.C.Crump & E.F.Jacob, edd., The Legacy of the Middle Ages (Oxford 1926) p.402 Eileen Power quotes an unidentified 'manuscript in the University of Cambridge' as saying that 'Woman is to be preferred to man, to wit: in material, because Adam was made from clay and Eve from the side of Adam; in place, because Adam was made outside paradise and Eve within; in conception, because a woman conceived God, which a man could not do; in apparition, because Christ appeared to a woman after the Resurrection, to wit, the Magdalen; in exaltation, because a woman is exalted above the choirs of angels, to wit, the Blessed Mary'. Can anyone identify the manuscript from which this comes? I am interested, because the passage quoted appears to be almost identical to what Humbert of Romans says in his sermon material on women.