The owl and the nightingale and the English poems of Oxford, Jesus College, MS 29 (II)
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The owl and the nightingale and the English poems of Oxford, Jesus College, MS 29 (II)
（Middle English texts）
Medieval Institute Publications, 2022
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 451-462) and index
Text in Middle English with Modern English translation
"A publication of the Rossell Hope Robbins Library in collaboration with the University of Rochester and the Teaching Association for Medieval Studies"
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Description
An edition and accompanying translation of this late C13th anthology of early Middle English verse. In addition to the original text and Modern English translations, the edition contains a substantial scholarly introduction, notes and a substantial bibliography.
Oxford, Jesus College, MS 29 (II), a thirteenth-century manuscript, contains the longest surviving English verse sequence from 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 Hales's 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 and presented here with accompanying translations in Modern English and scholarly introduction and apparatus.
This scholarly presentation of the text is designed for both research and classroom use, intended for teachers, scholars and students.
Table of Contents
General Introduction
Oxford, Jesus College, MS 29 (II): Texts and Translations
The Passion of Jesus Christ in English
The Owl and the Nightingale
Poema Morale
The Saws of Saint Bede
The Woman of Samaria
Weal
Death's Wither-Clench
An Orison to Our Lady
Will and Wit
The Annunciation
The Five Joys of Our Lady Saint Mary
When Holy Church Is Under Foot
Doomsday
Death
Ten Abuses
A Little Sooth Sermon
Antiphon of Saint Thomas the Martyr in English
On Serving Christ
Thomas of Hales, Love Rune
Song of the Annunciation
Fire and Ice
Signs of Death
Three Sorrowful Tidings
The Proverbs of Alfred
An Orison to Our Lord
A Homily on Sooth Love
The Shires and Hundreds of England
The Eleven Pains of Hell
Explanatory Notes
Textual Notes
Index of First Lines
Index of Proper Names
Bibliography
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