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The Owl and the Nightingale: and the English Poems of Jesus College MS 29 (II)
The Owl and the Nightingale: and the English Poems of Jesus College MS 29 (II)
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The thirteenth-century Oxford Jesus College MS 29 (II) contains a collection of early Middle English verse, with accompanying translations in Modern English and scholarly introduction and apparatus. The sequence varies in subject, including religious exhortation and secular pragmatism, and includes notable works such as "The Owl and the Nightingale," "Poema Morale," "The Proverbs of Alfred," "Love Rune," "The Eleven Pains of Hell," "Shires and Hundreds of England," and the "Passion of Jesus Christ in English." The manuscript is the lengthiest all-English verse collection known to exist between the Exeter Book and the Harley Lyrics, and was made in the West Midlands.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 460 pages
Publication date: 03 June 2022
Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
An edition of the early Middle English verse sequence contained in the thirteenth-century Oxford Jesus College MS 29 (II) with accompanying translations in Modern English and scholarly introduction and apparatus. The sequence is varied in subject, with poems of religious exhortation set beside others of secular pragmatism. Included are:
The Owl and the Nightingale, Poema Morale, The Proverbs of Alfred, Thomas of Haless Love Rune, The Eleven Pains of Hell, the prose Shires and Hundreds of England, the lengthy Passion of Jesus Christ in English, and twenty-one additional lyrics, most of them uniquely preserved in this manuscript. Made in the West Midlands, the Jesus 29 manuscript is the lengthiest all-English verse collection known to exist in the period between the Exeter Book and the Harley Lyrics.
The sequence is varied in subject, with poems of religious exhortation set beside others of secular pragmatism. Included are:
The Owl and the Nightingale, Poema Morale, The Proverbs of Alfred, Thomas of Haless Love Rune, The Eleven Pains of Hell, the prose Shires and Hundreds of England, the lengthy Passion of Jesus Christ in English, and twenty-one additional lyrics, most of them uniquely preserved in this manuscript. Made in the West Midlands, the Jesus 29 manuscript is the lengthiest all-English verse collection known to exist in the period between the Exeter Book and the Harley Lyrics.
The sequence is varied in subject, with poems of religious exhortation set beside others of secular pragmatism. Included are:
The Owl and the Nightingale, Poema Morale, The Proverbs of Alfred, Thomas of Haless Love Rune, The Eleven Pains of Hell, the prose Shires and Hundreds of England, the lengthy Passion of Jesus Christ in English, and twenty-one additional lyrics, most of them uniquely preserved in this manuscript. Made in the West Midlands, the Jesus 29 manuscript is the lengthiest all-English verse collection known to exist in the period between the Exeter Book and the Harley Lyrics.
The sequence is varied in subject, with poems of religious exhortation set beside others of secular pragmatism. Included are:
The Owl and the Nightingale, Poema Morale, The Proverbs of Alfred, Thomas of Haless Love Rune, The Eleven Pains of Hell, the prose Shires and Hundreds of England, the lengthy Passion of Jesus Christ in English, and twenty-one additional lyrics, most of them uniquely preserved in this manuscript. Made in the West Midlands, the Jesus 29 manuscript is the lengthiest all-English verse collection known to exist in the period between the Exeter Book and the Harley Lyrics.
Dimension: 260 x 210 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781580445207
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