A stanzaic life of Christ / compiled from Higden's Polychronicon and the Legenda aurea, ed. from ms. Harley 3909 by Francis A. Foster.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229-1298.

Higden, Ranulf, -1364.

Foster, Francis Allen, 1887- editor.

British Museum.

Series:

Early English Text Society (Series). Original series ; no. 166.

Early English Text Society. Original series ; no. 166. 1926 (for 1924)

Standardized Title:

Life of Christ (Middle English poem)

Language:

English, Middle (1100-1500)

Subjects (All):

Jesus Christ--Poetry.

Jesus Christ.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xliii, 456 pages : frontispiece (facsimile) ; 22 1/2 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Pub. for the Early English text society by H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1926.

Notes:

"A compilation made at Chester in the fourteenth century from two famous Latin works ... The result looks like a translation of the Legenda aurea with insertions from the Polychronicon."-p.[ix], xvii.

Missing parts supplied from Addit, ms. 38666, and Harl, 2250.

Includes index.

OCLC:

4230990