The Complete Harley 2253 Manuscript, Volumes 1-3
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- Pope John XXII
- Author
- Thomas of Erceldoune
- Author
- Unknown
- Author
- Saint Anselm
- Author
- Ludlow Scribe
- Author
- Saint Louis IX
- Author
- Herman de Valenciennes
- Author
- Nicholas Bozon
- Author
- Saint Hilary
- Author
- Susanna Fein
- Editor
- David Raybin
- Translator
- Jan Ziolkowski
- Translator
- description
Although few concrete details exist about the fourteenth-century manuscript known as London, British Library MS Harley 2253, it contains one of the most important surviving literary collections from medieval England. In rarity, quality and abundance, its collection of secular love lyrics is unrivaled, accompanying delicate lyrics of religious devotion and contemporary political songs preserved in no other manuscript. Beyond these Middle English treasures are no less intriguing French and Latin works: four fabliaux (the largest set from medieval England), three Anglo-Saxon saints’ lives, and numerous satires, comedies, debates, interludes, collected sayings, conduct literature, Bible stories, dream interpretations, and pilgrim guides. This phenomenal range owes to the Ludlow scribe, the manuscript’s compiler and copyist, himself credited with authoring parts of the collection. Volume 1 presents Booklets 1 and 2 of the manuscript, containing the rich assortment of religious narratives in Anglo-French verse and prose copied by Scribe A. Volume 2 presents Booklets 3, 4, and the majority of Booklet 5 of the manuscript, including its extraordinary anthology of religious and secular lyrics. Volume 3 presents Booklet 5’s last works and Booklets 6 and 7 of the manuscript, including a handbook of practical religion and the largest English collection of Anglo-Norman fabliaux.
Susanna Fein is both Editor and Translator of these editions.
- languages
- English, Middle (1100–1500), Latin, Anglo-Norman
- time periods
- 12th Century, 13th Century, 14th Century
- categories
- Legacy HTML, Wisdom literature, Hagiography, Biblical exegesis, Epistolary prose, Tail rhyme, Debate poetry, Recipe, Chronicle, Drama, Prayer, Otherworldly, Lyric poetry, Elegy (Poetry), Proverb, Estates Satire, Sermon, Complaint (Poetry), Bourde, Fabliau, Travel writing, Carol, Lyric poetry (Marian), Romance, Family romance, Authorship uncertain, Arthuriana, Matter of England, Matter of France, Nine Worthies
- additional information
- Cover design by Tom Krol. Volume 2 was published in 2014. Volumes 1 and 3 were published in 2015.
- contents
- General Introduction
- Introductions to Articles
- Introductions to Articles 1-10
- Introductions to Articles 11-20
- Introductions to Articles 21-30
- Introductions to Articles 31-40
- Introductions to Articles 41-50
- Introductions to Articles 51-60
- Introductions to Articles 61-70
- Introductions to Articles 71-80
- Introductions to Articles 81-90
- Introductions to Articles 91-100
- Introductions to Articles 101-110
- Introductions to Articles 111-116
- Harley 2253
- Booklet 1
- Booklet 2
- Art. 2, Herman de Valenciennes, La Passioun Nostre Seignour
- Art. 3, De la Passioun Jhesu [L’Évangile de Nicodème, La Tradition A]
- Art. 3a, Epistle a Tiberie
- Art. 3b, Epistle a Claudie l’emperour
- Art. 4, De seint Johan le Ewangeliste
- Art. 5, De seint Johan le Baptist
- Art. 6, De seint Bartholomeu
- Art. 7, Passioun seint Piere
- Booklet 3
- Art. 8, ABC a femmes
- Art. 9, De l'Yver et de l'Esté
- Art. 10, Vorte make cynople
- Art. 11, Vorte temprene asure
- Art. 12, Vorte make gras-grene
- Art. 13, Vorte maken another maner grene
- Art. 14, Yet for gaude-grene
- Art. 15, Vorte couche selverfoyl
- Art. 16, Vorte maken iren as hart as stel
- Art. 17, Vorte maken blankplum
- Booklet 4
- Art. 18, Incipit vita sancti Ethelberti
- Art. 19, Anima christi, sanctifica me
- Art. 20, Quant voy la revenue d’yver
- Art. 21, Alle herkneth to me nou
- Art. 22, In a thestri stude Y stod
- Art. 23, Sitteth alle stille ant herkneth to me
- Art. 24, Chaunter m’estoit
- Art. 24a, Charnel amour est folie
- Art. 24a*, Momentaneum est quod delectat
- Art. 24b, Erthe toc of erthe
- Art. 25, Lystneth, Lordynges! A newe song Ichulle bigynne
- Art. 25a, Lord that lenest us lyf
- Art. 26, Enseignement sur les amis
- Art. 27, Middelerd for mon wes mad
- Booklet 5
- Art. 28, Ichot a burde in a bour ase beryl so bryht
- Art. 29, Bytuene Mersh ant Averil
- Art. 30, With longyng Y am lad
- Art. 31, Ich herde men upo mold
- Art. 32, Herketh hideward ant beoth stille
- Art. 33, Weping haveth myn wonges wet
- Art. 34, Most I ryden by Rybbesdale
- Art. 35, In a fryht as Y con fare fremede
- Art. 36, A wayle whyt ase whalles bon
- Art. 37, Gilote e Johane
- Art. 38, Les pelrinages communes que crestiens fount en la Seinte Terre
- Art. 39, Les pardouns de Acres
- Art. 40, Ne mai no lewed lued libben in londe
- Art. 41, Of a mon Matheu thohte
- Art. 43, Lenten ys come with love to toune
- Art. 44, In May hit murgeth when hit dawes
- Art. 45, Heye Louerd, thou here my bone
- Art. 46, Ichot a burde in boure bryht
- Art. 47, Alle that beoth of huerte trewe
- Art. 48, Lustneth, lordinges, bothe yonge ant olde
- Art. 49, Marie, pur toun enfaunt
- Art. 50, Suete Jesu, king of blysse
- Art. 51, Jesu Crist, heovene kyng
- Art. 52, Wynter wakeneth al my care
- Art. 53, When Y se blosmes springe
- Art. 54, Ferroy chaunsoun
- Art. 55, Dum ludis floribus
- Art. 56, Quant fu en ma juvente
- Art. 57, Marie, mere al Salveour
- Art. 58, Dulcis Jesu memoria
- Art. 59, Une petite parole
- Art. 60, Stond wel, moder, under rode
- Art. 61, Jesu, for thi muchele miht
- Art. 62, I syke when Y singe
- Art. 63, Nou skrinketh rose ant lylie-flour
- Art. 64, My deth Y love, my lyf Ich hate
- Art. 65, When the nyhtegale singes
- Art. 66, Blessed be thou, Levedy
- Art. 67, Ase Y me rod this ender day
- Art. 68, Herkne to my ron
- Art. 69, Mayden, moder milde
- Art. 70, The Geste of Kyng Horn
- Art. 71, Ludlow Scribe, Estoyres de la Bible
- Art. 72, Nomina Librorum Bibliotece
- Booklet 6
- Art. 73, God that al this myhtes may
- Art. 74, Lustneth, alle, a lutel throwe
- Art. 75, Le jongleur d’Ely e le roi d’Angleterre
- Art. 75a, Les trois dames qui troverunt un vit
- Art. 76, Le dit des femmes
- Art. 77, Le blasme des femmes
- Art. 78, Nicholas Bozon, Femmes a la pye
- Art. 79, Un sage honme de grant valour
- Art. 80, Talent me prent de rymer e de geste fere
- Art. 81, Mon in the mone stond ant strit
- Art. 82, Le chevaler e la corbaylle
- Art. 83, De mal mariage
- Art. 84, La gagure, ou L’esquier e la chaunbrere
- Art. 85, A bok of swevenyng
- Art. 86, Ordre de bel ayse
- Art. 87, Le chevaler qui fist les cons parler
- Art. 88, Of rybauds Y ryme ant red o my rolle
- Art. 89, Mon that wol of wysdam heren
- Art. 90, When man as mad a kyng of a capped man
- Art. 91, La destinccioun de la estature Jesu Crist Nostre Seigneur
- Art. 92, Lutel wot hit any mon hou love hym haveth ybounde
- Art. 93, Lutel wot hit any mon hou derne love may stonde
- Art. 94, Enseignements de saint Lewis a Philip soun fitz
- Art. 95, L’enqueste que le patriarche de Jerusalem fist
- Art. 96, Les armes des roys
- Art. 97, Scriptum quod peregrini deferunt
- Art. 98, Legenda de sancto Etfrido, presbitero de Leoministria
- Art. 99, Quy chescun jour de bon cuer cest oreisoun dirra
- Booklet 7
- Art. 100, Quant vous levez le matyn
- Art. 101, Quy velt que Dieu sovyegne de ly
- Art. 102, Gloria in excelsis Deo en fraunceis
- Art. 103, Confiteor tibi, Deus, omnia peccata mea
- Art. 104, Gloriouse Dame
- Art. 105, Rex seculorum et Domine dominator
- Art. 106, Um doit plus volentiers juner le vendredy
- Art. 107, Quy est en tristour
- Art. 108, Cely que fra ces messes chaunter
- Art. 108a, Je vous requer, Jaspar, Melchior, e Baltazar
- Art. 109, Mundus iste totus quoddam scaccarium est
- Art. 109a, Quy chescun jour denz seissaunte jours
- Art. 110, Contra inimicos si quos habes
- Art. 111, Seint Hillere archevesque de Peyters ordina ces salmes
- Art. 112, Eulotropia et celidonia
- Art. 113, De interrogandi moribundis beati Anselmi
- Art. 114, Dieu, roy de magesté
- Art. 115, Contemplacioun de la passioun Jesu Crist
- Art. 116, De martirio sancti Wistani
- Appendix: Full Contents of MS Harley 2253
- Volume 1: Bibliography
- Volume 2: Bibliography
- Volume 3: Bibliography
- Volume 1: Index of First Lines
- Volume 2: Index of First Lines
- Volume 3: Index of First Lines
- Volume 1: Index of Manuscripts Cited
- Volume 2: Index of Manuscripts Cited
- Volume 3: Index of Manuscripts Cited
- Volume 1: Index of Proper Names
- Volume 2: Index of Proper Names
- Volume 3: Index of Proper Names