Lydgate's Siege of Thebes. / Edited from all the known manuscripts and the two oldest editions, with introduction, notes, and a glossary, by Axel Erdmann ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451?

Contributor:

Erdmann, Axel, 1843-1926.

Ekwall, Eilert, 1877-1964.

Series:

Early English Text Society (Series). Extra series ; 108 etc.

Early English Text Society. Extra series ; no. 108, 125

Language:

English

Physical Description:

2 volumes : frontispiece (v. 2) facsimile ; 23 cm.

Other Title:

Siege of Thebes.

Place of Publication:

London : Pub. for the Early English Text Society, by K. Paul Trench, Trübner & Co., ltd., and by H. Frowde ; New York : H. Frowde, 1911-30.

Contents:

pt. 1. The text.

pt. 2. Introduction, notes, rhyme-lists, and a glossary, with an appendix, by Axel Erdmann and Eilert Ekwall.

Notes:

Vol. 1 was issued also for the Chaucer Society. 2d ser., no. 46, 1911.

Vol. 2 was completed after the death of Axel Erdmann by Eilert Ekwall.

Imprint varies: v. 2, London, Pub. for the Early English Text Society, by H. Milford, Oxford University Press.

Based on a prose version of the French Roman de Thèbes, closely related to the "Roman de Edipus," printed in the 16th century at Paris.

"Axel Erdmann a memoir": v. 2, p. ix-xii.

Bibliography: volume 2, page xiii.

OCLC:

5315413