Soul and body I

Titre:	The departed soul's address to the body (éd. Kemble); Body and soul I (titre moderne)
Date:	IX^e ou X^e siècle
Langue:	Anglais
Genre:
Forme:	166 vers
Contenu:
Incipit:	Huru, ðæs behofað hæleða æghwylc þæt he his sawle sið sylfa geþence, hu þæt bið deoplic þonne se deað cymeð, asyndreð þa sybbe þe ær samod wæron…
Explicit:	… æt ðam dome þær dædum agilpan, hwylce earnunga uncre wæron. Wat ic þæt þu wære on woruldrice geþungen þrymlice þysses [.............] [la fin manque]
Voir aussi:	Soul and body II

Manuscrits

Vercelli, Biblioteca capitolare, 117, f. 101v-103v [⇛ Description]

Éditions anciennes

Éditions modernes

Conybeare, John Josias, Illustrations of Anglo-Saxon Poetry, edited, together with additional notes, introductory notices, etc. by his brother William Daniel Conybeare, London, Harding and Lepard, 1826, (viii) + xcvi + 287 p. (ici p. 232-235) [GB] [IA: ex. 1, ex. 2]
Réimpression:
- New York, Haskell House, 1964
Édition et traductions anglaise et latine.
Codex Exoniensis. A Collection of Anglo-Saxon Poetry, from a Manuscript in the Library of the Dean and Chapter of Exeter, with an English translation, notes and indexes, by Benjamin Thorpe, London, Pickering for The Society of Antiquaries of London, 1842, xvi + 546 p. (ici p. 374-377) [GB] [IA]
The Poetry of the Codex Vercellensis, with an English translation. By J. M. Kemble, London, The Ælfric Society, 1843-1846, 2 t., xvi + 100, x + 110 p. (ici t. 2, p. 100-110) [GB] [IA]
Bibliothek der angelsächsischen Poesie begründet von C. W. M. Grein. Neu bearbeitet, vermehrt und nach eignen Lesungen der Handschriften herausgegeben von Richard Paul Wülcker, Kassel, Wigand, 1883-1898, 5 t. (ici t. 2, p. 92-107) [GB: t. 1, t. 2, t. 3] [IA: t. 1, t. 2, t. 3]
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]
- Bibliothek der angelsächsischen Poesie begründet von C. W. M. Grein. Neu bearbeitet, vermehrt und nach eignen Lesungen der Handschriften herausgegeben von Richard Paul Wülcker. I. Band — 1. Hälfte, Kassel, Wigand, 1881, vii + 422 p. + [4] p. de pl. [GB] [IA]
- Bibliothek der angelsächsischen Poesie begründet von C. W. M. Grein. Neu bearbeitet, vermehrt und nach eignen Lesungen der Handschriften herausgegeben von Richard Paul Wülcker. II. Band — 1. Hälfte, Kassel, Wigand, 1888, vi + 210 p. [GB] [IA]
- Bibliothek der angelsächsischen Poesie begründet von C. W. M. Grein. Neu bearbeitet, vermehrt und nach eignen Lesungen der Handschriften herausgegeben von Richard Paul Wülcker. III. Band — 1. Hälfte, Kassel, Wigand, 1897, [vii] + 248 p. [GB] [IA]
Il codice vercellese con omelie e poesie in lingua anglosassone per concessione del ven. capitolo metropolitano di Vercelli la prima volta interamente riprodotto in fototipia a cura della Biblioteca Vaticana con introduzione del prof. dott. Massimiliano Foerster, Roma, Danesi, 1913, 71 p. + [272] pl. [HT] [IA]
Fac-similé du ms. de Vercelli.
The Vercelli Book, edited by George Philip Krapp, London, Routledge; New York, Columbia University Press (Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records, 2), 1932, xciv + 152 p.
Poems of Wisdom and Learning in Old English, éd. et trad. T. A. Shippey, Cambridge, Brewer; Totowa, Rowman and Littlefield, 1976, [viii] + 152 p. (ici p. 104-111) [IA]
The Old English Soul and Body, éd. Douglas Moffat, Woodbridge, Boydell and Brewer, 1990.

Traductions modernes

en anglais:
- Conybeare 1826 (voir sous Éditions modernes)
- Thorpe 1842 (voir sous Éditions modernes)
- Kemble 1843-1846 (voir sous Éditions modernes)
- Anglo-Saxon Poetry, selected and translated by Professor R. K. Gordon. Revised edition, London, Dent; New York, Dutton (Everyman's Library, 794), 1954, xiv + 334 p. (ici p. 280-283)
  Éditions antérieures:
  - Anglo-Saxon Poetry, selected and translated by Professor R. K. Gordon, London et Toronto, Dent; New York, Dutton (Everyman's Library, 794; Poetry and Drama), 1926, xvi + 367 p. [HT] [IA]
  - Anglo-Saxon Poetry, selected and translated by Professor R. K. Gordon, London et Toronto, Dent; New York, Dutton (Everyman's Library, 794; Poetry and Drama), 1930, xvi + 367 p. [IA]
  - 1934
  - Anglo-Saxon Poetry, selected and translated by Professor R. K. Gordon, London et Toronto, Dent; New York, Dutton (Everyman's Library, 794; Poetry and Drama), 1937, xvi + 367 p. [IA]
  - 1950
  Réimpressions:
  - Anglo-Saxon Poetry, selected and translated by Professor R. K. Gordon. Revised edition, London, Dent; New York, Dutton (Everyman's Library, 794), 1957, xiv + 334 p. [IA]
  - Anglo-Saxon Poetry, selected and translated by Professor R. K. Gordon. Revised edition, London, Dent; New York, Dutton (Everyman's Library, 794), 1962, xiv + 334 p. [IA]
  - 1964
  - Anglo-Saxon Poetry, selected and translated by Professor R. K. Gordon. Revised edition, London, Dent; New York, Dutton (Everyman's Library, 794), 1967, xiv + 334 p. [IA]
  - 1970
  - Anglo-Saxon Poetry, selected and translated by Professor R. K. Gordon. Revised edition, London, Melbourne et Toronto, Dent; New York, Dutton (Everyman's Library, 794), 1977, xiv + 334 p. [IA]
- Early English Poetry, translated by Charles W. Kennedy, New York, Oxford University Press, 1961.
- Shippey 1976 (voir sous Éditions modernes)
- Anglo-Saxon Poetry: An Anthology of Old English Poems in Prose Translation, with introduction and headnotes by S. A. J. Bradley, London, Dent (Everyman's Library, 1794), 1982, xxvi + 559 p. — Réimpr.: 1995; 2000.
en latin:
- Conybeare 1826 (voir sous Éditions modernes)

Études

Ferguson, Mary Heyward, « The structure of the Soul's Address to the Body in Old English », Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 69, 1970, p. 72-80.
Frantzen, Allen J., « The Body in Soul and Body I », The Chaucer Review, 17, 1982, p. 76-88.
Hill, Thomas D., « Punishment according to the hoints of the body in the Old English Soul and Body », Notes and Queries, 213, 1968, p. 409–410; 214, 1969, p. 246.
Orton, Peter R., « The Old English Soul and Body: a further examination », Medium Ævum, 48, 1979; p. 173-197.
Orton, Peter R., « Disunity in the Vercelli Book Soul and Body », Neophilologus, 63:3, 1979, p. 450-460.
Smetana, Cyril, « Second thoughts on Soul and Body I », Mediaeval Studies, 29, 1967, p. 193-205.

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