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United States of America / San Marino / Huntington Library

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• I.
  1. (f. IIv) Prayer for King, Queen and People (extrait), par John Lydgate

     Texte complet:

     Lord god preserue vnder þy mighty hande þe kynge þe qwene þe people and þis lande.

  2. (f. IIv) Pageant of Knowledge (extrait), par John Lydgate

     Incipit:	þe worlde so wyde þayre so remuable þe lytel man so lytel of stature…
     Explicit:	þat made is of þoes foure þis flitting may stidfast beo as here in his living.

  3. (f. IIv) Tyed with a lyne (extrait), par John Lydgate

     Incipit:	þe more I go þe firþer I am behinde þe firþer behinde þe nerre my weyes eonde…
     Explicit:	… Is þis fortune not I or infortune þaughe I go loose I tyed am with youre lune.

  4. (f. IIv) Troilus and Criseyde (extrait du livre I, v. 631-637), par Geoffrey Chaucer

     Incipit:	A whestone is no karving instrument and yitte it makeþe sharp karving tholis…
     Explicit:	… If þowe de so þy witte is wele bywared by his contrarye is every thing declared.

  5. (f. III) Troilus and Criseyde, extrait du livre I, v. 400-406), par Geoffrey Chaucer

     Incipit:	If no love is o lord what fele I so and if love is what thing and what is he…
     Explicit:	… þat from it comþe may to me savoury thenke for ay thrist I þe more þat I it drynke.

  6. (f. III) Boethius (extrait), par John Walton

     Incipit:	As þat pouert causeþe soburnesse and feobulnesse enforceþe continence…
     Explicit:	… þere is no more perayllous pestylence þane hye estate graunted vn to shrewes. To yowe Chaucier.

  7. (f. 1r-12v) Daunce of Machabree, par John Lydgate

     Incipit:	O see folkes harde herted as a stone which to the world haue al your aduertence…
     Explicit:	… of her tunge I haue no suffisaunce her corious metris in inglissh to translate. Amen.

  8. (f. 13r-v) Resoun of the rammeshorne, par John Lydgate

     Incipit:	Al right wisnesse dothe now procede sitte crowned liche an emperesse…
     Explicit:	… Thus eche astate is gouerned yn sothenesse conueied be lyne right as a rammeshorne.

  9. (f. 14r-v) Sotel resoun of the crabbe, par John Lydgate

     Incipit:	This worlde is ful of stablenesse ther is ther ynne no veriaunce…
     Explicit:	… the heueneli signe maketh demonstraunce right as the Crabbe gothe forewarde.

  10. (f. 15r-17r) De fallacia mundi, par John Lydgate

      Incipit:	Considere welle with eueri circumstaunce of what estate euer thowe be…
      Explicit:	… chastiseth the reuers and of wisdom dothe this voideth ȝowre heryng from al that sey a mys.

  11. (f. 18r-115r) Regiment of princes, par Thomas Hoccleve

      Incipit:	Musyng vp on the restles besynes wiche that trowbli world hathe ay on honde…
      Explicit:	… and if lust be to his magnyficence do be thi reed his welthes shal witnesse.

  12. (f. 115v) Itinéraire de 65 endroits de Calais à Jérusalem, en anglais

      Incipit:	The weye vnto Rome and soo too Venyse and to Ierusalem…
      Explicit:

• II.
  1. (f. 116r-126v) Storie of Asneth

     Incipit:	Ha cruell deth contrarious to creatures in kynde ha deeth dispitous who may aduertise…
     Explicit:	… comely kynde and curteis in nobleye of nurture vernant in alle vertu plesaunt and demure.

  2. (f. 126v-127r) Complainte sur la mort d'une dame, en vers anglais; constituerait l'épilogue du texte précédent selon ses éditeurs

     Incipit:	Ha cruell deth contrarious to creatures in kynde ha deeth dispitous who may aduertise…
     Explicit:	… comely kynde and curteis in nobleye of nurture vernant in alle vertu plesaunt and demure.

  3. (f. 127v) Lettres patentes d'Henri VIII d'Angleterre à propos du monastère de Faversham (Kent), en latin et incomplètes de la fin

     Incipit:	[H]enricus octavus dei gracia Anglie et Francie Rex…
     Explicit:	… Cum nuper monasterium de Feversham in comitatu nostro kant. iam [la fin manque]

Description matérielle

Possesseurs

• John Egerton (1622-1686), 2nd Earl of Bridgewater
• John Egerton (1646-1701), 3rd Earl of Bridgewater
• Acquis en 1917 par Henry E. Huntington avec le reste de la collection Bridgewater, peut-être par l'intermédiaire de John Francis Granville Scroop

Bibliographie

• MacCracken, Henry Noble, « The Storie of Asneth. An unknown Middle English translation of a lost Latin version », The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 9:2, 1910, p. 224-264. [jstor.org] [GB] [HT] [IA]
• Religious Lyrics of the XVth Century, edited by Carleton Brown, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1939, p. 241-243.
• Dutschke, C. W., et al., Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Huntington Library, San Marino, Huntington Library, 1989, 2 t. (ici p. 35-39) [HT] [IA: t. 1, t. 2]
• Heroic Women from the Old Testament in Middle English Verse, edited by Russell A. Peck, Kalamazoo, Medieval Institute Publications (Middle English Texts), 1991, x + 157 p. [metseditions.org]
• Catalogue en ligne de la bibliothèque

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Voir aussi:
> Wikidata: Q134415225
> Biblissima: Q248817

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