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Recueil dit des Macro Morality Plays:

• I.
  1. (f. 98r-121r) Wisdom

     Incipit:	Fyrst enteryde Wysdome in a ryche purpull clothe of golde wyth a mantyll of the same ermynnyde wythin, hawynge abowt hys neke a ryall hood furred wyth ermyn…
     Explicit:	… That þe doctryne of Wysdom we may sew, Sapiencia Patris, grawnt þat for hys passyon! Amen!      Wysdom.      Anima, Fyve Wyttys.      Mynde.      Wndyrstondynge.      Lucyfer.

  2. (f. 122r-134r) Mankind

     Incipit:	Mercy. The very fownder and begynner of owr fyrst creacyon amonge ws synfull wrechys he oweth to be magnyfyede…
     Explicit:	… þat ye may be pleyferys wyth þe angellys abowe and hawe to ȝour porcyon vitam eternam. Amen! Fynis.

• II.
  1. (f. 154r-191v) The castle of perseverance

     Incipit:	The Banns Primus vexillator. Glorious God, in all degres lord most of myth, Þat heuene and erthe made of nowth, boÞe se and lond…
     Explicit:	… thynke on ȝoure last endynge! Te Deum laudamus!

Description matérielle

Possesseurs

• I. Peut-être Thomas Hyngham, de l'abbaye Bury St. Edmunds (XV^e siècle)
• Cox Macro (1683-1767)
• James Patteson, de Norwich, qui hérite des livres du précédent et les revend en bloc à Dawson Turner et Hudson Gurney; le ms. revient à H. Gurney
• Hudson Gurney (1775-1864), Keswick Hall, Norfolk, puis à Bawdeswell Hall, Norfolk; mis en vente chez Sotheby’s par le Major Q. E. Gurney (Londres, 30 mars 1936, n° 170)
• Acheté par Quaritch chez Sotheby's, 30 mars 1936 (n° 170); catalogue n° 520, 1936, lot n° 784
• Acquis par la bibliothèque le 7 août 1936 auprès de Bernard Quaritch par Joseph Quincy Adams, directeur de Folger, pour 5625 USD (1125 GBP)

Bibliographie

• A Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts… Formerly Collected by the Rev. Dr. Macro, of Little Haugh (Norton), in the County of Suffolk, which are to be sold by private contract by Mr. Christie, Pall-Mall (Norwich, Stevenson..., Feb. 1820. 4°), p. 3, n° 5.
• Sharp, Thomas, A Dissertation on the Pageants or Dramatic Mysteries Anciently Performed at Coventry, the Trading Companies of that City; Chiefly with Reference to the Vehicle, Characters, and Dresses of the Actors. Compiled, in a Great Degree from Sources Hitherto Unexplored. To which Are Added, the Pageant of the Shearmen and Taylor's Company, and Other Municipal Entertainments of a Public Nature, Coventry, Merridew, 1825, [v] + 230 p. (ici p. 23) [GB] [IA: ex. 1, ex. 2, ex. 3]
• Chambers, E. K., The Mediaeval Stage, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1903, 2 t. (ici t. 2, p. 436-438) [GB: t. 1, t. 2] [IA: t. 1, t. 2]
  Réimpressions:

  • Chambers, E. K., The Mediaeval Stage, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1925, 2 t. [IA: t. 1, t. 2]
  • 1948
  • Chambers, E. K., The Mediaeval Stage, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1954, 2 t. [IA: t. 1, t. 2]
  • Chambers, E. K., The Mediaeval Stage, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1963, 2 t. [IA: t. 1, t. 2]
  • 1967
  • Chambers, E. K., The Mediaeval Stage, Mineola (NY), Dover Publications, 1996, 2 t. en 1 [IA: t. 1, t. 2]
• The Macro Plays. 1. Mankind (Ab. 1475). 2. Wisdom (Ab. 1460). 3. The Castle of Perseverance (Ab. 1425). Edited by F. J. Furnivall and Alfred W. Pollard, London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Co. (Early English Text Society. Extra Series, 91), 1904, xlii + 210 p. [GB] [IA]
  Réimpression:

  • The Macro Plays. 1. Mankind (Ab. 1475). 2. Wisdom (Ab. 1460). 3. The Castle of Perseverance (Ab. 1425). Edited by F. J. Furnivall and Alfred W. Pollard, London, Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press (Early English Text Society. Extra Series, 91), 1924, xlii + 210 p. [IA]
• Mankind. The Macro Plays. No. 1, éd. John S. Farmer, London et Edinburgh, Jack (The Tudor Facsimile Texts), 1907, vi p. + f. [122-134]. [GB] [IA]
  Réimpression:

  • New York, AMS Press, 1970
• Wisdom or Mind, Will, and Understanding. The Macro Plays. No. 2, éd. John S. Farmer, London et Edinburgh, Jack (The Tudor Facsimile Texts), 1907, vii p. + f. [98-122]. [GB] [IA]
  Réimpression:

  • New York, AMS Press, 1970
• The Castle of Perseverance. The Macro Plays. No. 3, éd. John S. Farmer, London et Edinburgh, Jack (The Tudor Facsimile Texts), 1908, vii p. + f. [154-192]. [GB] [IA: ex. 1, ex. 2]
  Réimpression:

  • New York, AMS Press, 1970
• Ricci, Seymour de, et W. J. Wilson, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, New York, Wilson, 1935-1940, 3 t. (ici t. 2, p. 2272, n^o 5031) [IA: t. 1, t. 2, t. 3]
• The Macro Plays: The Castle of Perseverance, Wisdom, Mankind. Edited by Mark Eccles, London, New York et Toronto, Oxford University Press (Early English Text Society. Original Series, 262), 1969, lii + 280 p. [IA: ex. 1, ex. 2, ex. 3]
• Macro Plays: The Castle of Perseverance, Wisdom, Mankind. A Facsimile Edition with Facing Transcriptions. Edited by David Bevington, New York, Johnson Reprint, 1972.
• Parry, David, The Castle of Perseverance: A Critical Edition, Ph. D. dissertation, University of Toronto, 1983.
• Beadle, Richard, « Monk Thomas Hyngham's hand in the Macro manuscript », New Science out of Old Books: Studies in Manuscripts and Early Printed Books in Honour of A. I. Doyle, éd. Richard Beadle et A. J. Piper, Aldershot, Scolar Press, 1995, p. 315-341.
• The Castle of Perseverance, edited by David N. Klausner, Kalamazoo, Medieval Institute Publications (Middle English Texts Series), 2010, vii + 145 p.
• Gibson, Gail McMurray, « The Macro manuscripts and the making of the morality play », The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 113:3, 2019, p. 255-295. DOI: 10.1086/704388
• Catalogue en ligne de la bibliothèque

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