The book of curtesy

Titre:	The book of curtesy; The book of curtesye
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Langue:	Anglais
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Forme:	Vers
Contenu:
Incipit:	Lytle childe, sythen youre tendre infancie stondeth as yett vndir yndyff[e]rence, to vice or vertu to moven or Applie, and in suche Age ther is no prouidence,
Explicit:	… for eny thing kepith youre trety thense; enuie is full of frowarde reprehense, and howe to hurte liethe euere in awayte, kepeth youre quaiere, that hit be not her baite. Explicit. Domine, saluum fac regem.

Manuscrits

Éditions anciennes

The book of curtesye
[Westminster], [William Caxton], [vers 1477-1478]
ARLIMA: EA2714 GW: M15035 ISTC: ib01029500 USTC: 500024 ESTC: S117348
Exemplaires en ligne: [GB] [IA]
A lytyll treatyse called the booke of curtesye or lytyll John
[Westminster], [Wynkyn de Worde], [1492]
ARLIMA: EA2715 USTC: 500172 ESTC: S111337

Éditions modernes

Caxton's Book of Curtesye, printed at Westminster about 1477-8 A. D. and now reprinted, with two MS. copies of the same treatise, from the Oriel MS. 70, and the Balliol MS. 354. Edited by Frederick J. Furnivall, London, Trübner (Early English Text Society. Extra Series, 3), 1868, xii + 57 p. [GB] [IA]
The Book of Curtesye, printed at Westminster by William Caxton about the year 1477, éd. Francis Jenkinson, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1907, [33] p. [GB] [IA]

Traductions modernes

Études

Putter, Ad, « The textual history of a Middle English poem: The Boke of Curtesy in England, France and the Low Countries », Medieval French on the Move: Studies in Honour of Keith Busby, éd. Leah Tether, Patrick Moran et Anne Salamon, Berlin, de Gruyter, 2025, p. 31-50.