Life of saint Alexis (version courte en sizains)

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Date:
Langue:	Anglais
Genre:	Hagiographie
Forme:	612 vers à rimes plates
Contenu:	Récit de la vie de saint Alexis.
Incipit:	Sitteþ tille with-outen strif, and i wol tellen ou of a lyf of an holy Mon; Alix was his nome…
Explicit:	… ȝif þi wille hit be, graunt vs alle god endyng, and in heuene a wonyiig. Amen par Charite.

Manuscrits

Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Eng. poet. a. 1 [⇛ Description]
« Vernon manuscript ».
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Laud Misc. 108 [⇛ Description]

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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