An Old English miscellany containing a bestiary, Kentish sermons, Proverbs of Alfred, religious poems of the thirteenth century, from manuscripts in the British Museum, Bodleian Library, Jesus College Library, etc. Ed. with introduction and index of words / by Richard Morris.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Morris, Richard, 1833-1894.

Contributor:

• Theobaldus, Episcopus.
• Maurice, of Sully, Bishop of Paris, approximately 1120-1196.

Series:

• Early English Text Society (Series). Original series ; no. 49.
• Early English Text Society [Original series] ; no. 49

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• English poetry--Middle English, 1100-1500.
• English poetry.
• English poetry--Middle English.

Physical Description:

xvi, 308 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Pub. for the Early English Text Society, by N. Trübner & Co., 1872.

Notes:

"A bestiary (p. 1-25) comes from Arundel ms. 292, in the British Museum, of about the middle of the thirteenth century. It is translated from the Latin Physiologus of Theobaldus ... Old Kentish sermons (p. 26-36) are ... a fragment ... found ... with their originals, the French sermons of Maurice de Sully, in a ms. in the Bodleian Library, Laud. 471 ... From the Jesus College ms. [I. Arch. 29] Oxford, we have printed the pieces that constitute the bulk of the present volume."--Pref.

Related Work:

Theobaldus, Episcopus. Physiologus.

OCLC:

359405