The Complete Harley 2253 Manuscript

Volume 1

Buch | Softcover

520 Seiten

2015 | New edition
Medieval Institute Publications (Verlag)
978-1-58044-205-3 (ISBN)

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British Library MS Harley 2253 is one of the most important literary works to survive from the English medieval era. In rarity, quality, and abundance, its secular love lyrics comprise an unrivaled collection. Intermingled with them are contemporary political songs as well as delicate lyrics designed to inspire religious devotion.

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.

Susanna Fein is Professor of English and coordinator of the Arts and Sciences minor in Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Kent State University. David Raybin is Professor of English at Eastern Illinois University. Jan Ziolkowski is the Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Medieval Latin at Harvard University, and director of the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection.

Acknowledgments
Introduction

MS Harley 2253: Texts and Translations

Booklet 1
1. Vitas patrum / The Lives of the Fathers
1a. Thais / The Story of Thais

Booklet 2
2. Herman de Valenciennes, La Passioun Nostre Seignour / Herman de Valenciennes, The Passion of Our Lord
3. De la Passioun Jhesu [L’Évangile de Nicodème, La Tradition A] / Of Jesus’ Passion [The Gospel of Nicodemus, Tradition A]
3a. Epistle a Tiberie / The Letter of Pilate to Tiberius
3b. Epistle a Claudie l’emperour / The Letter of Pilate to Emperor Claudius
4. De seint Johan le Ewangeliste / The Life of Saint John the Evangelist
5. De seint Johan le Baptist / The Life of Saint John the Baptist
6. De seint Bartholomeu / The Life of Saint Bartholomew
7. Passioun seint Piere / The Passion of Saint Peter

Explanatory Notes
Textual Notes
Appendix: Full Contents of MS Harley 2253
Volume 1: Index of First Lines
Volume 1: Index of Manuscripts Cited
Volume 1: Index of Proper Names
Bibliography

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.4.2015
Reihe/Serie	TEAMS Middle English Texts Series
Übersetzer	Susanna Fein, David Raybin, Jan Ziolkowski
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-58044-205-6 / 1580442056
ISBN-13	978-1-58044-205-3 / 9781580442053
Zustand	Neuware