Sir Cleges

Titre:
Date:	Fin du XIV^e siècle
Langue:	Anglais
Genre:	Roman
Forme:	540 vers
Contenu:
Incipit:	Will ye lystyn, and ye schyll here of eldyrs that before vs were, bothe hardy and wyght: in the tyme of kyge Vter…
Explicit:	… he schewyd his yeftes swyth: now to Mari that hende may, for all yowr sowlys Y her pray that to my talys lythe.

Manuscrits

Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Advocates, 19.2.1, f. ?48rb stub-?61va stub [⇛ Description]
« Auchinleck manuscript ».
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Ashmole, 61, f. 67v-73v [⇛ Description]

Éditions anciennes

Éditions modernes

Metrical Romances of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Centuries: published from ancient manuscripts, with an introduction, notes, and a glossary by Henry Weber, Edinburgh, Constable, 1810, 3 t. (ici t. 1, p. 329-354; t. 3, p. 345-346) [GB: t. 1, t. 1, t. 2, t. 3] [HT] [IA: t. 1, t. 2, t. 3]
Treichel, Adolf, « Sir Cleges. Eine mittelenglische Romanze », Englische Studien, 22, 1896, p. 345-389. [GB] [HT] [IA]
Édition antérieure:
- Treichel, Adolf, Sir Cleges. Eine mittelenglische Romanze. I. Einleitung, Altenburg, Pierer'sche Hofbuchdruckerei. Stefan Geibel und Co., 1896, 36 p. [GB] [IA]
Middle English Humorous Tales in Verse, edited by George H. McKnight, Boston et London, Heath (The Belles-Lettres Series. Section II: Middle English Literature), 1913, lxxv + 156 p. (ici p. 38-59) [GB] [IA]
Middle English Metrical Romances, edited by Walter Hoyt French and Charles Brockway Hale, New York, Russell and Russell, 1964, 2 t. (ici t. 2, p. 877-895) [IA: t. 1-2]
Édition antérieure:
- Middle English Metrical Romances, edited by Walter Hoyt French and Charles Brockway Hale, New York, Prentice-Hall, 1930, 2 t. [IA: t. 1-2]
Housum, Mary Elizabeth, A Critical Edition of Middle English Sir Cleges, Ph. D. dissertation, Catholic University, 1988. [PQ]
Medieval English Romances, edited by Diane Speed, 3rd ed., Durham, Durham Medieval Texts (Durham Medieval Texts, 8), 1993, 2 t.
The Middle English Breton Lays, edited by Anne Laskaya and Eve Salisbury, Kalamazoo, Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University (Middle English Texts Series), 1995, viii + 444 p. [lib.rochester.edu] DOI: 10.2307/j.ctv14gpjmw
Codex Ashmole 61: A Compilation of Popular Middle English Verse, edited by George Shuffelton, Kalamazoo, Medieval Institute Publications (Middle English Texts), 2008, vii + 655 p. [lib.rochester.edu]

Traductions modernes

en anglais:
- Sir Cleges. Sir Libeaus Desconus. Two old English metrical romances rendered into prose by Jessie L. Weston. With designs by Caroline M. Watts, London, Nutt (Arthurian Romances Unrepresented in Malory's "Morte d'Arthur", 5), 1902, xi + 77 p. [GB] [IA]
  Réimpression:
  - New York, AMS Press, 1970
- A Wonder Book of Old Romance, by F. J. Harvey Darton, illustrated by A. G. Walker, London, Wells Gardner Darton, [1907], xix + 424 p. (ici p. 67-80) [IA: ex. 1, ex. 2]
  Réimpression:
  - A Wonder Book of Old Romance, by F. J. Harvey Darton, illustrated by A. G. Walker, New York, Stokes, [1907], xix + 424 p. [IA]
- Tales of True Knights, by George Philip Krapp, illustrated by Henry C. Pitz, New York, The Century Co., 1921, xvii + 317 p. (ici p. 3-18) [GB] [IA: ex. 1, ex. 2]

Études

Carr, Sherwyn T., « The Middle English Nativity cherry tree: the dissemination of a popular motif », Modern Language Quarterly, 36, 1975, p. 133-147.
Hibbard (Loomis), Laura A., Mediæval Romance in England: A Study of the Sources and Analogues of the Non-Cyclic Metrical Romances. New edition with supplementary bibliographical index (1926-1959), New York, Franklin (Burt Franklin Bibliographical Reference Series, 17), 1963, viii + 350 p. [IA]
Éditions antérieures:
- Hibbard, Laura A., Mediæval Romance in England: A Study of the Sources and Analogues of the Non-Cyclic Metrical Romances, New York, Oxford University Press, 1924, viii + 342 p. [HT] [IA]
- Hibbard (Loomis), Laura A., Mediæval Romance in England: A Study of the Sources and Analogues of the Non-Cyclic Metrical Romances. New edition with supplementary bibliographical index (1926-1959), New York, Franklin (Burt Franklin Bibliographical Reference Series, 17), 1960, viii + 350 p. [HT] [IA]
Loomis, C. Grant, « Sir Cleges and unseasonable growth in hagiology », Modern Language Notes, 53:8, 1938, p. 591-594. DOI: 10.2307/2912966
Schelp, Hanspeter, Exemplarische Romanzen im Mittelenglischen, Göttingen, Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht (Palaestra, 246), 1967, 263 p. [IA]

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