The alliterative romance of Alexander : from the unique manuscript in the Ashmolean Museum / Edited by the Reverend Joseph Stevenson ; Printed for the Roxburghe Club.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stevenson, Joseph, 1806-1895.

Leo, Archipresbyter, active 10th century.

Bodleian Library.

Roxburghe Club.

Shakspeare Press.

Standardized Title:

Wars of Alexander.

Language:

English, Middle (1100-1500)

Greek, Modern (1453-)

Latin

Subjects (All):

Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C--Romances.

Alexander.

Alexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C.

Romances.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

6 unnumbered pages, vi pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 251 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

London : W. Nicol, 1849.

Notes:

Listed as no. 67 in the club's Catalogue of publications.

Fragment of an early 15th century poem, based on a recension ("J³a") of the Historia de preliis. From Ashmolean ms. 44, now in the Bodleian. Edited by W.W. Skeat for the Early Eng. text society 1886 (Extra series, no. 47).

Contains also (p. [195]-236) as "Appendix from the Bodleian manuscript" (Bodley ms. 264, Western ms. 2464) the fragment edited by Skeat in 1878 under title "Alexander and Dindimus" (Early Eng. text society. Extra series. 31) and by F.P. Magoun in "The gestes of King Alexander", 1929, where it is described as an "almost slavishly faithful translation" of a recension (J²) of the Historia de preliis.

Added engraved t.p.

Title in red and black

Local Notes:

RBC copy for: Hon. and very Rev. the Dean of Windsor.

Cited in:

Barker, N. The publications of the Roxburghe Club, 1814-1962, 67

Related Work:

Leo, Archipresbyter, active 10th century. Historia de preliis.

OCLC:

4409392