Octavian (version méridionale)

Titre:	Aucun titre dans le ms.
Date:	Vers 1350
Langue:	Anglais
Genre:	Roman
Forme:	1962 vers
Contenu:	Traduction du roman français d'Othevien empereor de Rome.
Incipit:	Jesu, þat was with spere ystonnge, and for vs hard and sore yswonnge, glady both old and yonnge, with wytte honest, that wylled a whyle ster her tonnge And herkeny gest!…
Explicit:	… Thus clerkys seyth yn her wrytynge, Þat falsnesse comeþ to euel endynge. Jesu vs to hys blysse brynge, Boþ old and yonge, As he for vs on þe rode hyng Wyth spere ystong!

Manuscrits

Éditions anciennes

Éditions modernes

Metrical Romances of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Centuries: published from ancient manuscripts, with an introduction, notes, and a glossary by Henry Weber, Edinburgh, Constable, 1810, 3 t. (ici t. 3, p. 155-239 et 374-375) [GB: t. 1, t. 1, t. 2, t. 3] [HT] [IA: t. 1, t. 2, t. 3]
Octavian. Zwei mittelenglische Bearbeitungen der Sage herausgegeben von Dr. Gregor Sarrazin, Heilbronn, Henninger (Altenglische Bibliothek, 3), 1885, xlv + 191 p. [GB] [IA: ex. 1, ex. 2]
Compte rendu:
Karl Breul, dans Englische Studien, 9, 1886, p. 456-466. [GB] [HT] [IA: ex. 1, ex. 2]
Six Middle English Romances, edited with an introduction by Maldwyn Mills, London, Dent; Totowa, Rowman and Littlefield (Everyman's University Library, 1090), 1973, xxxiii + 224 p.
Réimpression:
- 1992
Four Middle English Romances, edited by Harriet Hudson, Kalamazoo, Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University (Middle English Texts), 1996, 241 p.

Traductions modernes

Études

Fischer, Erna, Der Lautbestand des südmittelenglischen "Octavian" vergleichen mit seinen Entsprechungen im "Lybeaus Desconus" und im "Launfal", Heidelberg, Winter (Anglistische Forschungen, 63), 1927, viii + 216 p.
Kaluza, Max, « Thomas Chestre, Verfasser des Launfal, Libeaus Desconus und Octovian », Englische Studien, 18, 1893, p. 165-190. [GB] [HT] [IA: ex. 1, ex. 2, ex. 3]
Mills, Maldwyn, « The composition and style of the "Southern" Octavian, Sir Launfal and Libeaus Desconus », Medium Ævum, 31:2, 1962, p. 88-109. DOI: 10.2307/43626973