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Recueil de poèmes anglais surnommé « London Thornton MS »:

1. (f. 3-32) Cursor mundi, fragment

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2. (f. 32-33) On the Life and Passion of Our Saviour Jesus Christ, en vers anglais

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   Explicit:	… Explicit Passio Domini nostri Jhesu Christi.

3. (f. 50-66) The siege of Jerusalem

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4. (f. 66vb-79vb) The sege of Melayne

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5. (f. 80) Prière rimée, en anglais et en latin

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6. (f. 80r-92r) The romance of duke Rowland and sir Otuell of Spayne

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7. (f. 94) Our Saviour Jesus Christ, poèmes anglais sur la Vie et la Passion de Jésus-Christ (suite et fin)

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8. (f. 96) John Lydgate, Memorial verses on the kings of England

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9. (f. 97) Sentences morales en anglais etc.

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10. (f. 101v) Hymnes au Saint Esprit, en anglais

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11. (f. 102-103) Paraphrases des psaumes XLIII et LI, en vers anglais

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12. (f. 104) La messe moralisée, en anglais

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13. (f. 110b) The Rose of Ryse, chants de Noël en anglais

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14. (f. 111) The Magi, poème anglais sur le pèlerinage à Bethléeem

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15. (f. 120, 122v, 123v) Poèmes anglais sur la Grâce

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16. (f. 125) Richard Coeur de Lyon, version longue

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17. (f. 163v) Romance of the childhood of Our Saviour Jesus Christ, en anglais

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18. (f. 169r-176v) The parlement of the thre ages

    Incipit:	In the monethe of Maye when mirthes bene fele, and the sesone of somere when softe bene the wedres…
    Explicit:	… there, dere Drightyne, this daye dele vs of thi blysse, and Marie, þat es mylde qwene, amende vs of synn! Amen Amen. Thus endes The Thre Ages.

19. (f. 176vb-181vb) Wynnere and Wastoure

    Incipit:	Here begynnes a Tretys and god Schorte refreyte By-twixe Wynnere and Wastoure — [Prologus] Sythen that Bretayne was biggede and Bruyttus it aughte thurgh the takynge of Troye with tresone with-inn…
    Explicit:	… & sythe kayren as I come with knyghtes þat me foloen to þe kirke of Colayne þer þe kynges ligges [la fin manque]

Description matérielle

Possesseurs

• John Nettleton (XV^e s.); Robert Thornton; acheté par le British Museum le 12 juillet 1879 du libraire J. Pearson, qui l'avait obtenu aux États-Unis

Bibliographie

• "The Sege off Melayne" and "The Romance of Duke Rowland and Sir Otuell of Spayne," now for the first time printed from the unique MS. of R. Thornton, in the British Museum, MS. Addit. 31,042, together with a fragment of The Song of Roland from the unique MS. Lansd. 388, edited by Sydney J. Herrtage, London, Trübner (Early English Text Society, Extra Series, 35; The English Charlemagne Romances, 2), 1880, xxxix + 178 + 3 p. (ici p. viii-ix) [GB] [IA]
• Stern, Karen, « The London "Thornton" miscellany: a new description of British Museum manuscript 31042 », Scriptorium, 30, 1976, p. 201-218.
• Stanley, E. G., « Review of the Thornton Manuscript », Notes and Queries, 223, 1978, p. 165–168.
• Thompson, John J., Robert Thornton and the London Thornton Manuscript, British Library, MS Additional 31042, Cambridge, 1987.
• Johnston, Michael Robert, The Sociology of Middle English Romance: Three Late Medieval Compilers, Ph. D. dissertation, Ohio State University, 2007, xv + 452 p. [ohiolink.edu]
• British Library, Manuscripts Catalogue. [www]

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