King Horn a Middle-English Romance
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Excerpt from King Horn a Middle-English Romance: Edited From the Manuscripts The Middle-English Romance of King Horn exists in three MS. copies, (1) MS. Harleian, 2253, British Museum, London (L); (2) MS. Laud, Misc. 108, Bodleian Library, Oxford (O); and (3) MS. Gg. iv. 27. 2, University Library, Cambridge (C). L. a vellum book measuring 30 x 18 centimetres, consists of two distinct MSS. bound up together. The first, executed in England towards the end of the thirteenth century, contains religious pieces in Anglo-French prose and verse; a translation of Vitas Patrum; La passiun nostre Seignour (being an extract from the Bible of Herman de Valenciennes); De Tiberio sanato with the Legend of S. Veronica added; Lives of S. John Evangelist, S. John Baptist, S. Bartholomew, and Passioun seint Piere. All these pieces except the first are in MS. Egerton, 2710. The second MS. begins at f. 49, and ends with f. 142: it has lost two leaves after f. 52, and again after f. 140, and there is a f. 67 after f. 67. Its eighty-six articles, written in English, Anglo-French, and Latin, cannot be described here in detail. They comprise forty English lyrics printed in Boddeker, Altenglische Dichtungen in Wright, Political Songs (Camden Society), and Specimens of Lyric Poetry (Percy Society); nine similar pieces in French, and one of French and Latin mixed, printed in Wright, Specimens ; two satirical poems in French, De coniuge non ducenda, in Wright, Poems attributed to Walter Mapes, and The Order of Bel-Eyse, printed in the Political Songs; six fabliaux (for which see Ward, Catalogue of Romances, i. pp. 328, 813); The Harrowing of Hell (ed. Mall, Breslau, 1871); Debate of Body and Soul, in Wright, Mapes ; Legend of Marina; Maximion, and the Proverbs of Hendyng, all printed in Boddeker and elsewhere. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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