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An edition of the early Middle English verse sequence contained in the thirteenth-century Oxford Jesus College MS 29 (II) with accompanying translations in Modern English and scholarly introduction and apparatus. The sequence is varied in subject, with poems of religious exhortation set beside others of secular pragmatism. Included are: The Owl and the Nightingale, Poema Morale, The Proverbs of Alfred, Thomas of Hales’s Love Rune, The Eleven Pains of Hell, the prose Shires and Hundreds of England, the lengthy Passion of Jesus Christ in English, and twenty-one additional lyrics, most of them uniquely preserved in this manuscript. Made in the West Midlands, the Jesus 29 manuscript is the lengthiest all-English verse collection known to exist in the period between the Exeter Book and the Harley Lyrics.
Publication Date
2022
Publisher
Medieval Institute Publications
City
Kalamazoo
ISBN
9781580445207
Keywords
The Owl and the Nightingale, Middle English lyrics, Thomas of Hales, Poema Morale, Proverbs of Alfred, miscellany, Oxford Jesus College MS 29
Disciplines
English Language and Literature | Language Interpretation and Translation | Literature in English, British Isles | Medieval Studies
Citation for Published Book
Fein, Susanna, ed. and trans. The Owl and the Nightingale and the English Poems of Jesus College MS 29 (II). Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, 2022.
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This title has been made available open access at the Middle English Texts Series (METS) website by permission of the Executive Committee of The Teaching Association for Medieval Studies (TEAMS) and The Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University. The TEAMS Middle English Texts Series is published for TEAMS in association with the University of Rochester by Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan and is supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities; the University of Rochester's Rossell Hope Robbins Library, River Campus Libraries, Department of English, and School of Arts and Sciences; and TEAMS.