Generides (version en couplets)

Titre:	A royal historie of the excellent knight Generides (éd. Furnivall)
Date:	Fin du XIV^e siècle
Langue:	Anglais
Genre:	Roman
Forme:	10086 vers à rimes plates
Contenu:
Incipit:	A man that hath litel to doone, werk he may make him soone; no thar him nat be idel long that any werk will vndersong…
Explicit:	… and graunt vs al at oure ende to heven blis forto wende, eternallie there to be! Seith Amen al, for charitie. Here endeth the noble historie of th[e excellent Pr]ince Generides, which bi his mariage was Emperoure of P[erse and of] many a Regioñ longyng therto, And bi heritage king of Ynde and [of Surre].

Manuscrits

Éditions anciennes

Éditions modernes

A Royal Historie of the Excellent Knight Generides. Edited from the unique MS. of John Tollemache, Esq., M.P., of Peckforton Castle, South Cheshire, and Helmingham Hall, Suffolk, by Frederick J. Furnivall, s. l., Gibbs for the Roxburghe Club, 1865, xxxvi + 334 p. [CMEPV] [GB] [IA]
Compte rendu:
Zirwer, Otto, « Zur Textkritik der me. Generides-Romanzen », Englische Studien, 17, 1892, p. 23-48. [GB] [HT] [IA]

Traductions modernes

Études

Howard, Matthew, « "We are broderen": fraternal bonds and familial loyalty within the fifteenth-century romance of Generydes », Love, Marriage and Family Ties in the Middle Ages, éd. Isabel Davis, Miriam Müller et Sarah Rees Jones, Turnhout, Brepols (International Medieval Research, 11), 2003, p. 129-142. DOI: 10.1484/m.imr-eb.3.693 DOI du recueil: 10.1484/m.imr-eb.6.09070802050003050202000704
Meale, Carol M., « The Morgan Library copy of Generydes », Romance in Medieval England, éd. Maldwyn Mills, Jennifer Fellows et Carol M. Meale, Cambridge, Brewer, 1991, p. 89-104.
Zirwer, Otto, « Zur Textkritik der me. Generides-Romanzen », Englische Studien, 17, 1892, p. 23-48. [GB] [HT] [IA]
Compte rendu de:
Compte rendu de: A Royal Historie of the Excellent Knight Generides. Edited from the unique MS. of John Tollemache, Esq., M.P., of Peckforton Castle, South Cheshire, and Helmingham Hall, Suffolk, by Frederick J. Furnivall, s. l., Gibbs for the Roxburghe Club, 1865, xxxvi + 334 p. [CMEPV] [GB] [IA]