Life of saint Alexis (version courte à rimes plates)

Titre:	« The shortest version, in couplets »
Date:
Langue:	Anglais
Genre:	Hagiographie
Forme:	421 vers à rimes plates
Contenu:	Récit de la vie de saint Alexis.
Incipit:	[A]lle þat wolle a whyle here dwełł, herkynnythe, and I wołł yowe tełł a tale sone of grete pyte: att rome, by-fełł in þat Cyte…
Explicit:	… and lyvyd A pore manys lyfe; nowe is he in Ioye þat last[et]he Aye God bryng us þere þat best maye. Praye wee Ałł þat yt soo bee. Amen, Amen, For cheryte. explicit sante alex.

Manuscrits

London, British Library, Cotton MS Titus A. XXVI, f. 145

Éditions anciennes

Éditions modernes

Adam Davy's 5 dreams about Edward II. The Life of St. Alexius. Solomon's Book of Wisdom. St. Jeremie's 15 tokens before Doomsday. The Lamentation of Souls. Edited from the Laud MS. 622 in the Bodleian Library by F. J. Furnivall, London, Trübner (Early English Text Society. Original Series, 69), 1878, 122 p. (ici p. 17-79) [GB] [IA: ex. 1, ex. 2]
Édition antérieure:
- Furnivall, Frederick J., Education in Early England. Some Notes Used as Forewords to a Collection of Treatises on "Manners and Meals in Olden Time" for the Early English Text Society, London, Trübner, 1867, [iv] + lxxiv p. [GB] [IA]
Réimpressions:
- Early English Meals and Manners: John Russell's Boke of Nurture, Wynkyn de Worde's Boke of Keruynge, The Boke of Curtasye, R. Weste's Booke of Demeanor, Seager's Schoole of Vertue, The Babees Book, Aristotle's A B C, Urbanitatis, Stans puer ad mensam, The Lytylle Childrenes Lytil Boke, For to Serve a Lord, Old Symon, The Birched School-Boy, etc. etc., with Some Forewords on Education in Early England. Edited by Frederick J. Furnivall, London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Co. (Early English Text Society. Original Series, 32), 1894, [viii] + cvi + 368 p. + XVI pl. [GB] [IA]
- Early English Meals and Manners: John Russell's Boke of Nurture, Wynkyn de Worde's Boke of Keruynge, The Boke of Curtasye, R. Weste's Booke of Demeanor, Seager's Schoole of Vertue, The Babees Book, Aristotle's A B C, Urbanitatis, Stans puer ad mensam, The Lytylle Childrenes Lytil Boke, For to Serve a Lord, Old Symon, The Birched School-Boy, etc. etc., with Some Forewords on Education in Early England. Edited by Frederick J. Furnivall, London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Co. (Early English Text Society. Original Series, 32), 1904, [viii] + cvi + 368 p. + XVI pl. [IA]
- Early English Meals and Manners: John Russell's Boke of Nurture, Wynkyn de Worde's Boke of Keruynge, The Boke of Curtasye, R. Weste's Booke of Demeanor, Seager's Schoole of Vertue, The Babees Book, Aristotle's A B C, Urbanitatis, Stans puer ad mensam, The Lytylle Childrenes Lytil Boke, For to Serve a Lord, Old Symon, The Birched School-Boy, etc. etc., with Some Forewords on Education in Early England. Edited by Frederick J. Furnivall, London, Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press (Early English Text Society. Original Series, 32), 1931, [viii] + cvi + 368 p. + XVI pl. [IA]

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