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Made in the West Midlands in the thirteenth century, Oxford Jesus College, MS 29 (II) provides an anthology described by volume editor Susanna Fein as "the most abundant, most persistently English assemblage of imaginative short poems to turn up in the period between the tenth-century Old English Exeter Book and the mid-fourteenth-century Harley Lyrics." Moralizing, witty, assertively English, and pragmatic about life and the afterlife, the anthology reflects the personality, erudition, and interests of its lone scribe; it includes the learned debate poem "The Owl and the Nightingale"; Thomas of Hales's "Love Rune," the first known English Franciscan lyric; "The Proverbs of Alfred," collected wisdom attributed to Alfred the Great; and twenty-five additional works, many of them uniquely preserved in this manuscript. Fein's edition presents all of Jesus 29's English materials in facing-page translation, supplementing their challenging early Middle English with modern English translations for students and advanced scholars alike.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations List
General Introduction
Oxford, Jesus College, MS 29 (II): Texts and Translations
1. The Passion of Jesus Christ in English
2. The Owl and the Nightingale
3. Poema Morale
4. The Saws of Saint Bede
5. The Woman of Samaria
6. Weal
7. Death's Wither-Clench
8. An Orison to Our Lady
9. Will and Wit
10. The Annunciation
11. The Five Joys of Our Lady Saint Mary
12. When Holy Church Is Under Foot
13. Doomsday
14. Death
15. Ten Abuses
16. A Little Sooth Sermon
17. Antiphon of Saint Thomas the Martyr in English
18. On Serving Christ
19. Thomas of Hales, Love Rune
20. Song of the Annunciation
21. Fire and Ice
22. Signs of Death
23. Three Sorrowful Tidings
24. The Proverbs of Alfred
25. An Orison to Our Lord
26. A Homily on Sooth Love
27. The Shires and Hundreds of England
28. The Eleven Pains of Hell
Explanatory Notes
Textual Notes
Index of First Lines
Index of Proper Names
Bibliography
