The lyfe of Ipomydon

Titre:	The lyfe of Ipomydon
Date:	XV^e siècle
Langue:	Anglais
Genre:	Roman
Forme:	2346 vers
Contenu:	Traduction d'Ipomedon d'Hue de Rotelande.
Incipit:	Mekely, lordynges gentyll and fre, lysten awhile and herken to me: I schall you telle of a kynge, a dowghty man withowte lesynge…
Explicit:	… there as non other thynge may bee, but joye and blisse, game and glee. To that blysse God bryng vs alle that dyed on rode for grete and smalle! Amen. Explicit Ipomydon.

Manuscrits

Éditions anciennes

The life of Ipomydon
London, Wynkyn de Worde, [vers 1522]
ARLIMA: EA2887 USTC: 501716 ESTC: S104596
The life of Ipomydon
London, Wynkyn de Worde, [vers 1527]
ARLIMA: EA2888 USTC: 515976 ESTC: S91513

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. 2, p. 279-365 et 478; t. 3, p. 361-364) [GB: t. 1, t. 1, t. 2, t. 3] [HT] [IA: t. 1, t. 2, t. 3]
Hue de Rotelande's Ipomedon. Ein französischer Abenteuerroman des 12. Jahrhunderts. Als Anhang zu der Ausgabe der drei englischen Versionen zum erster Male herausgegeben von E. Kölbing und E. Koschwitz, Breslau, Koebner, 1889, xi + 189 p. (ici p. 255-319) [GB] [IA]
Comptes rendus:
A. Mussafia, « Sulla critica del testo del romanzo in francese antico Ipomedon », Sitzungsbericht der Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien, 121, 13, 1890, 76 p. — Réplique: E. Koschwitz, dans Zeitschrift für französische Sprache und Litteratur, 12:2, 1890, p. 135-138. — E. Stengel, dans Zeitschrift für französische Sprache und Litteratur, 13, 1891, p. 9-27.
Réimpression:
- Genève, Slatkine Reprints, 1975
The Lyfe of Ipomydon, éd. Tadahiro Ikegami, Tokyo, 1983, 2 t.

Traductions modernes

en anglais:
- Ellis, George, Specimens of Early English Metrical Romances, Chiefly Written During the Early Part of the Fourteenth Century; to which is Prefixed an Historical Introduction, Intended to Illustrate the Rise and Progress of Romantic Composition in France and England. A new edition, revised by J. O. Halliwell, London, Bohn (Bohn's Antiquarian Library), 1848, viii + 600 p. (ici p. 505-527) [GB] [IA]
  Éditions antérieures:
  - Ellis, George, Specimens of Early English Metrical Romances, Chiefly Written During the Early Part of the Fourteenth Century; to which is Prefixed an Historical Introduction, Intended to Illustrate the Rise and Progress of Romantic Composition in France and England, London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme; Edinburgh, Constable, 1805, 3 t., vii + 387, [iv] + 404, [iv] + 419 p. [IA: t. 1, t. 2, t. 3]
  - Ellis, George, Specimens of Early English Metrical Romances, Chiefly Written During the Early Part of the Fourteenth Century; to which is Prefixed an Historical Introduction, Intended to Illustrate the Rise and Progress of Romantic Composition in France and England, London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1811, 3 t., vii + 408, [iv] + 419, [iv] + 432 p. [IA: t. 1, t. 2, t. 3]

Études

Thaon, Brenda, « La Fiere: the career of Hue de Rotelande's heroine in England », Reading Medieval Studies, 9, 1983, p. 56-69. [www]
Ward, H. L. D., Catalogue of Romances in the Departement of Manuscripts in the British Museum, London, British Museum, t. 1, 1883, xx + 955 p.; t. 2, 1893, xii + 748 p. (ici t. 1, p. 755-757) [GB: t. 1, t. 2] [HT] [IA: t. 1, t. 2]
Compte rendu:
Paul Meyer, dans Romania, 23, 1894, p. 315. [Gallica] [GB: ex. 1, ex. 2] [HT] [IA: ex. 1, ex. 2]