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Contenu
- (f. 8r-14r) Christ I
Incipit: [le début manque]
cyninge.
ðu eart se weallstan þe ða wyrhtan iu…Explicit: … þær he gesælig siþþan eardað,
ealne widan feorh wunað butan ende. Amen. - (f. 14r-20v) Cynewulf, Christ II
Incipit: Nu ðu geornlice gæstgerynum,
mon se mæra, modcræfte sec…Explicit: … ða us gerymde rodera waldend,
halge on heahþu, þa he heofonum astag. - (f. 20v-32r) Christ III
Incipit: ðonne mid fere foldbuende
se micla dæg meahtan dryhtnes…Explicit: … awo brucað eadigra gedryht,
weoruda wlitescynast, wuldres mid dryhten. - (f. 32v-44v) Guthlac A
Incipit: Se bið gefeana fægrast þonne hy æt frymðe gemetað,
engel ond seo eadge sawl! Ofgiefeþ hio þas eorþan wynne…Explicit: … wlitig, wuldorfæst, ealne widan ferh
on lifgendra londes wynne. - (f. 44v-52v) Guthlac B
Incipit: ðæt is wide cuð wera cneorissum,
folcum gefræge, þætte frymþa god…Explicit: … siðfæt minne. Ic sceal sarigferð,
heanmod hweorfan, hyge drusendne. » - (f. 53r-55v) Azarias
Incipit: Him þa Azarias ingeþoncum
hleoþrede halig þurh hatne lig…Explicit: … modum gleawe, in monþeawum,
þurh foreþoncas fyr gedygdon. - (f. 55v-65v) The phoenix
Incipit: Hæbbe ic gefrugnen þætte is feor heonan
eastdælum on æþelast londa…Explicit: … ond him lof singan laude perenne,
eadge mid englum. Alleluia. - (f. 65v-76r) Cynewulf, Juliana
Incipit: Hwæt! We ðæt hyrdon hæleð eahtian,
deman dædhwate, þætte in dagum gelamp…Explicit: … þæt we þine onsyne, æþelinga wyn,
milde gemeten on þa mæran tid.
Amen. - (f. 76v-78r) The wanderer
Incipit: Oft him anhaga are gebideð,
metudes miltse, þeah þe he modcearig…Explicit: … eorl mid elne gefremman. Wel bið þam þe him are seceð,
frofre to fæder on heofonum, þær us eal seo fæstnung stondeð. - (f. 78r-80r) The gifts of men
Incipit: Fela bið on foldan forðgesynra
geongra geofona, þa þa gæstberend…Explicit: … leohtbære lof, se us þis lif giefeð
ond his milde mod monnum cyþeð. - (f. 80r-81r) Precepts
Incipit: ðus frod fæder freobearn lærde,
modsnottor mon, maga cystum eald…Explicit: … ber breostcofan. Swa þu, min bearn, gemyne
frode fæder lare ond þec a wið firenum geheald. » - (f. 81v-83r) The seafarer
Incipit: Mæg ic be me sylfum soðgied wrecan,
siþas secgan, hu ic geswincdagum…Explicit: … þæt he usic geweorþade, wuldres Ealdor
ece Dryhten, in ealle tid. Amen. - (f. 83r-84v) Vainglory
Incipit: Hwæt, me frod wita on fyrndagum
sægde, snottor ar, sundorwundra fela…Explicit: … gemunan in mode mæla gehwylcum
þone selestan sigora waldend. Amen. - (f. 84v-87r) Widsith
Incipit: Widsið maðolade, wordhord onleac,
se þe monna mæst mægþa ofer eorþan…Explicit: … leoht ond lif somod; lof se gewyrceð,
hafað under heofonum heahfæstne dom. - (f. 87r–88v) The fortunes of men
Incipit: Ful oft þæt gegongeð, mid godes meahtum,
þætte wer ond wif in woruld cennað…Explicit: … Forþon him nu ealles þonc æghwa secge,
þæs þe he fore his miltsum monnum scrifeð. - (f. 88v-92v) Maxims I
Incipit: Frige mec frodum wordum! Ne læt þinne ferð onhælne,
degol þæt þu deopost cunne! Nelle ic þe min dyrne gesecgan…Explicit: … hyge heardum men. Helm sceal cenum,
ond a þæs heanan hyge hord unginnost. - (f. 92v-94r) The order of the world
Incipit: Wilt þu, fus hæle, fremdne monnan,
wisne woðboran wordum gretan…Explicit: … forlæte heteniþa gehwone sigan
mid synna fyrnum, fere him to þam sellan rice. - (f. 94r-95v) Riming poem
Incipit: Me līfes onlāh se þis lēoht onwrāh,
ond þæt torhte getēoh, tillīce onwrāh…Explicit: … þær moncyn mot for meotude rot
soðne god geseon, ond aa in sibbe gefean. - (f. 95v-96v) The panther
Incipit: Monge sindon geond middangeard
unrimu cynn, þe we æþelu ne magon…Explicit: … ond se anga hyht ealra gesceafta,
uppe ge niþre. » þæt is æþele stenc. - (f. 96v-97v) The whale
Incipit: Nu ic fitte gen ymb fisca cynn
wille woðcræfte wordum cyþan…Explicit: … þæt we mid swa leofne in lofe motan
to widan feore wuldres neotan. - (f. 97v-98r) The partridge
Incipit: Hyrde ic secgan gen bi sumum fugle
wundorlicne…Explicit: … þæt swa æþelne eardwica cyst
in wuldres wlite wunian motan.
Finit. - (f. 98r-100r) [Soul and body II]
Incipit: Huru, ðæs behofaþ hæleþa æghwylc
þæt he his sawle sið sylfa bewitige…Explicit: … æt on eorþan. þæt mæg æghwylcum
men to gemyndum modsnotterra. - (f. 100r-v) Deor
Incipit: Welund him be wurman wræces cunnade,
anhydig eorl earfoþa dreag…Explicit: … leoðcræftig monn londryht geþah,
þæt me eorla hleo ær gesealde.
þæs ofereode, þisses swa mæg! - (f. 100v-101r) Wulf and Eadwacer
Incipit: Leodum is minum swylce him mon lac gife;
willað hy hine aþecgan gif he on þreat cymeð…Explicit: … wynlicran wic. Wa bið þam þe sceal
of langoþe leofes abidan. - (f. 101r-115r) Riddles 1-59
Incipit: [Riddle 1]
Hwylc is hæleþa þæs horsc ond þæs hygecræftig
þæt þæt mæge asecgan, hwa mec on sið wræce…Explicit: … hringes to hæleþum, þa he in healle wæs
wylted ond wended wloncra folmum. - (f. 115r-v) The wife's lament
Incipit: Ic þis giedd wrece bi me ful geomorre,
minre sylfre sið. Ic þæt secgan mæg…Explicit: … wynlicran wic. Wa bið þam þe sceal
of langoþe leofes abidan. - (f. 115v-117v) The Judgment Day I
Incipit: ðæt gelimpan sceal, þætte lagu floweð,
flod ofer foldan; feores bið æt ende…Explicit: … Siþþan æfter þam lige lif bið gestaþelad,
welan ah in wuldre se nu wel þenceð. - (f. 117v-119v) Resignation
Incipit: Age mec se ælmihta god,
helpe min se halga dryhten! þu gesceope heofon ond eorþan
ond wundor eall, min wundorcyning…Explicit: … Giet biþ þæt selast, þonne mon him sylf ne mægbr />wyrd onwendan, þæt he þonne wel þolige. - (f. 119v-121v) The harrowing of hell
Incipit: Ongunnon him on uhtan æþelcunde mægð
gierwan to geonge; wiston gumena gemot…Explicit: … mid þy fullwihte fægre onbryrdon
ealne þisne middangeard. Sie þæs symle meotude þonc! » - (f. 121v-122r) Alms-giving
Texte complet: Wel bið þam eorle þe him on innan hafað,
reþehygdig wer, rume heortan;
þæt him biþ for worulde weorðmynda mæst,
ond for ussum dryhtne doma selast.
Efne swa he mid wætre þone weallendan
leg adwæsce, þæt he leng ne mæg
blac byrnende burgum sceððan,
swa he mid ælmessan ealle toscufeð
synna wunde, sawla lacnað. - (f. 122r) Pharaoh, poème fragmentaire
Texte complet: « Saga me hwæt þær weorudes wære ealles
on Farones fyrde, þa hy folc godes
þurh feondscipe fylgan ongunn.... »
« Nat ic hit be wihte, butan ic wene þus,
þæt þær screoda wære gescyred rime
siex hun... ...a searohæbbendra;
þæt eal fornam yþ...
wraþe wyrde in woruldrice. » - (f. 122r) The Lord's prayer I, incomplet du début
Texte complet: [le début manque]
g fæder, þu þe on heofonum eardast,
geweorðad wuldres dreame. Sy þinum weorcum halgad
noma niþþa bearnum; þu eart nergend wera.
Cyme þin rice wide, ond þin rædfæst willa
aræred under rodores hrofe, eac þon on rumre foldan.
Syle us to dæge domfæstne blæd,
hlaf userne, helpend wera,
þone singalan, soðfæst meotod.
Ne læt usic costunga cnyssan to swiðe,
ac þu us freodom gief, folca waldend,
from yfla gehwam, a to widan feore. - (f. 122r-v) Homiletic fragment II
Incipit: Gefeoh nu on ferðe ond to frofre geþeoh
dryhtne þinum, ond þinne dom arær…Explicit: … in þam hordfate, halgan gæste,
beorht on br[……]e scan,
se wæs ordfruma ealles leohtes. - (f. 122v) Riddle 30b
Texte complet: Ic eom ligbysig, lace mid winde,
w– …dre gesomnad,
fus forðweges, fyre gemylted,
bear… blowende, byrnende gled.
Ful oft mec gesiþas sendað æfter hondum,
þær mec weras ond wif wlonce gecyssað.
þonne ic mec onhæbbe, hi onhnigað to me,
modge miltsum, swa ic mongum sceal
ycan upcyme eadignesse. - (f. 122v-123r) Riddle 60
Incipit: Ic wæs be sonde, sæwealle neah,
æt merefaroþe, minum gewunade…Explicit: … abeodan bealdlice, swa hit beorna ma
uncre wordcwidas widdor ne mænden. - (f. 123r-v) The husband's message
Incipit: Nu ic onsundran þe secgan wille
[......] treocyn ic tudre aweox;
in mec æld[…] sceal ellor londes…Explicit: … þæt he þa wære ond þa winetreowe
be him lifgendum læstan wolde,
þe git on ærdagum oft gespræconn. - (f. 123v-124v) The ruin, poème fragmentaire
Incipit: Wratlic is þes wealstn; wyrde gebrcon,
burgstede burston, brosnað enta geweorc…Explicit: … ht on hreþre; pæt wæs hyðelic.
Lton þonne gotan [.............]
ofer hrne stn hte stramas
under [........] [............–]
oþþæt hringmere. Hte [........]
[........] þr þ baþu wron.
[............. .............] - (f. 124v) Riddles 61-95
Incipit: Oft mec fæste bileac freolicu meowle,
ides on earce, hwilum up ateah…Explicit: … swiþe secað, ic swaþe hwilum
mine bemiþe monna gehwylcum.
Description matérielle
| Copiste: | Inconnu |
| Lieu: | Angleterre |
| Date: | Seconde moitié du Xe siècle |
| Nombre de feuillets: | 123 |
| Foliotation: | 8-130 |
| Format: | 185 × 140 mm |
| Support: | Parchemin |
| Reliure: | |
| Mise en page: | Une colonne |
| Décoration: | |
| Notes: | Un feuillet manque entre les f. 37-38. |
Possesseurs
- Acquis par l'évêque Leofric († 1072) pour le chapitre cathédral d'Exeter, où le ms. est demeuré jusqu'à aujourd'hui.
Bibliographie
- Phenix-Fuglen, et angelsachsisk kvad förstegang udgivet med indledning, fordanskning og efterklang af Nik. Fred. Sev. Grundtvig, Kjöbenhavn, Fabritius de Tengnagel, 1840, 72 p. [GB] [IA]
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- Schipper, J., « Zum Codex Exoniensis », Germania, 19, 1874, p. 327-338. [GB] [HT] [IA: ex. 1, ex. 2, ex. 3]
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Éditions antérieures:
- Bibliothek der angelsächsischen Poesie in kritisch bearbeiteten Texten und mit vollständigem Glossar herausgegeben von C. W. M. Grein, Göttingen, Wigand, 1857-1864, 4 t. [GB: t. 1, t. 2, t. 3, t. 4] [IA: t. 1, t. 2, t. 3, t. 4]
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- The Exeter Book, an anthology of Anglo-Saxon poetry presented to Exeter Cathedral by Leofric, first bishop of Exeter (1050-1071), and still in the possession of the Dean and Chapter, edited from the manuscript, with a translation, notes, introduction, etc., by Israel Gollancz. Part I. Poems I-VIII, London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Co. for the Early English Text Society (Early English Text Society. Original Series, 104), 1895, viii + 305 p. [GB] [IA]
- Die Handschriften von Exeter: Metra des Boetius, Salomo und Saturn, die Psalmen. Herausgegeben von Bruno Assmann nebst einer Lebensskizze Grein's von Richard Paul Wülker und mit Grein's Bildnis, Leipzig, Wigand's Verlag (Bibliothek der angelsächsischen Poesie, 3:1-2), 1897-1898, 2 t. en 1 vol., [vi] + 248, xiii + 247-490 p. [GB] [IA]
- The Christ of Cynewulf, a Poem in Three Parts: the Advent, the Ascension, and the Last Judgment, edited with introduction, notes, and glossary by Albert S. Cook, Boston, Ginn (The Albion Series), 1900, ciii + 297 p. [GB] [IA: ex. 1, ex. 2]
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- The Old English Elene, Phoenix, and Physiologus, edited by Albert Stanburrough Cook, New Haven, Yale University Press; London, Humphrey Milford et Oxford University Press, 1919, lxxxix + 241 p. (ici p. xxv-xxvi et lx) [GB] [IA: ex. 1, ex. 2]
- The Exeter Book. Part II, poems IX-XXXII, edited by W. S. Mackie, London, New York et Toronto, Oxford University Press (Early English Text Society. Original Series, 194), 1934, vii + 245 p. + [2] f. de pl. — Réimpr.: 1958; Millwood, Kraus Reprint, 1973; 1978; 1987-1988; Woodbridge et Rochester, Boydell and Brewer, 2000.
- The Exeter Book of Old English Poetry, with introductory chapters by R. W. Chambers, Max Forster and Robin Flower, London, Percy Lund, Humphries and Co. for the Dean and Chapter of Exeter Cathedral, 1933.
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Compte rendu:
Mercedes Salvador-Bello, dans Kritikon litterarum, 39:3-4, 2012, p. 243-248. [www] - Murphy, Patrick J., Unriddling the Exeter Riddles, University Park, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2011, 272 p.
Compte rendu:
Martha Bayless, dans The Medieval Review, 12.01.04. [www] - O'Camb, Brian, « Exeter Maxims, The Order of the World, and the Exeter Book of Old English Poetry », Philological Quarterly, 93:4, 2014, p. 409-433.
- Dale, Corinne, The Natural World in the Exeter Book Riddles: Nature and Environment in the Middle Ages, Woodbridge, Brewer, 2017, ix + 217 p.
Compte rendu:
Lori Ann Garner, dans The Medieval Review, 17.12.30, 2017. [www] - Donoghue, Daniel, How the Anglo-Saxons Read Their Poems, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press (The Middle Ages Series), 2018, [v] + 238 p.
Compte rendu:
Tiffany Beechy, dans The Medieval Review, 19.02.07, 2019. [www] - Niles, John D., God's Exiles and English Verse: On The Exeter Anthology of Old English Poetry Exeter, University of Exeter Press, 2019.
- Barajas, Courtney Catherine, Old English Ecotheology: The Exeter Book, Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press (Environmental Humanities in Pre-modern Cultures), 2021, 231 p. DOI: 10.5117/9789463723824
Compte rendu:
Michael D. J. Bintley, dans The Medieval Review, 22.03.06, 2022. [www] - Présentation sur le site de la British Library
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