Life of saint Alexis (version longue en douzains)

Titre:	« The longest version, in 12-line stanzas »
Date:
Langue:	Anglais
Genre:	Hagiographie
Forme:	96 douzains (1152 vers)
Contenu:	Récit de la vie de saint Alexis.
Incipit:	Alle þat willen here in ryme hou gode men in olde tyme loueden god almiȝth, þat weren riche of grete valoure…
Explicit:	… þere Aungels ben wonyynge; and sende vs, lorde, þi mylde mood; ffor þorouȝ þee spryngeþ al good wiþouten any endynge. Amen, Amen, Amen.

Manuscrits

Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Laud Misc. 622, f. 21v

Éditions anciennes

Éditions modernes

Englische Alexiuslegenden aus dem XIV. und XV. Jahrhundert, herausgegeben von J. Schipper. Erstes Heft: Version I, Strassburg et London, Trübner (Quellen und Untersuchungen zur Sprach- und Culturgeschichte der germanischen Völker, 20), 1877, [vi] + 108 p. [GB: ex. 1, ex. 2] [IA: ex. 1, ex. 2]
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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