Rex celi deus

Titre:
Date:	XIV^e siècle
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Dédicataire:
Langue:	Latin
Genre:
Forme:	56 vers
Contenu:
Incipit:	Sequitur carmen unde magnificus rex noster Henricus prenotatus apud Deum et homines cum omni benediccione glorificetur. Rex celi, Deus et dominus, qui tempora solus condidit, et solus condita cuncta regit, qui rerum causas ex se produxit, et unum in se principium rebus inesse dedit…
Explicit:	… Ergo tue laudi que tuo genuflexus honori Verba loco doni pauper habenda tuli. Est tamen ista mei, pie rex, sentencia verbi fine tui regni sint tibi regna poli.

Manuscrits

London, British Library, Additional, 59495, f. 10v-11r (T) [⇛ Description]
Ms. dit de Trenham.
London, British Library, Cotton, Tiberius A. IV, f. 167r (C)
London, British Library, Harley, 6291 (H)
Oxford, All Souls College Library, 98, f. 126v-127v (S)
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Hatton, 92 (H3)

Éditions anciennes

Éditions modernes

Balades and Other Poems by John Gower. Printed from the original manuscript in the library of the Marquis of Stafford at Trentham [by George Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland], London, Shakespeare Press, William Bulmer and Co., for The Roxburghe Club, 1818. [GB] [IA]
The Complete Works of John Gower, edited from the manuscripts with introductions, notes and glossaries by G. C. Macaulay, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1899-1902, 4 t. (ici t. 4, p. 343-344) [GB: t. 1, t. 2, t. 3, t. 4] [IA: t. 1, t. 2, t. 3, t. 4]
John Gower, The Minor Latin Works, edited and translated by R. F. Yeager; with In Praise of Peace, edited by Michael Livingston, Kalamazoo, Medieval Institute Publications (Middle English Texts Series), 2005, vii + 139 p. [lib.rochester.edu]

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