Prosalegenden die legende des ms. Douce 114 (dialekt von Nottinghamshire?) / [ed. C. Horstmann].

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Horstmann, Carl, 1851-

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Halle a. S.: Max Niemeyer

1885

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A litil prologe of þe englyshe compyloure.

Worshypful James, byshope of Accone, wrote vnto þe byschope of Tholose a longe proheme [Dieser Prologus ad Fulconem episc. Tolosanum findet sich in den A. SS. Boll. Juni IV, 636.] in to þe lyfe þat heere folowiþ: in þe whiche proheme hee writiþ compendiously dyuerse commendacyouns [ 25] and merueilles of many deuoute & holy wymmen in þe dyocis of Leody and in þat cuntreye. ¶ And amonge his writynge, as clerge & retho∣rik askeþ, hee puttiþ legeauns and figuratif spekynges þat are not lighte to be turnyd in to englische langage wiþ-outen moor expounynge; and if a man wolde take summe of þe same proheme, þe sentense [ 30] wolde not weele accorde: ¶ and þerfore I leeue alle þat proheme, excepte þis shorte ouerly touchynge.

¶ Heere bigynneþ þe chapiters of þe firste boke of þe lyfe of seinte Marye of Oegines: þe whiche lyfe Maister James, confessour & famylier of þe same Marye, after byshop of Accone, & after þat Car∣dynalle [ 35] dynalle of þe courte of Rome, endyted in latyn, in þe ȝeere of grace a thowsand two hundrede and fiftene.

Of hir childe-hode . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cap. I.
Of hir matrymone . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cap. II.
Of þe conuersacyone [l. conversyone.] of hir spouse, & þat þey for∣soke [ 40] þe worlde . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cap. III.
Of þe dispisynge & persecucyon of hir cosyns . . Cap. IV.
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Of hir compunceyone and terys . . . . . . . . Cap. V.
Of hir confessyon and schrifte . . . . . . . . Cap. VI.
Of hir penauns and satisfaccyone . . . . . . . Cap. VII.
Of hir fastynge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cap. VIII.
Of hir praiynge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cap. IX. [ 5]
Of hir wakynge & slepynge . . . . . . . . . Cap. X.
Of hir cloþinge & arraye . . . . . . . . . . . Cap. XI.
Of þe laboure of hir handes . . . . . . . . . Cap. XII.
Of hir berynge and composicyone of chere and oþer membrys of hir body . . . . . . . . . . . Cap. XIII. [ 10]

Prosalegenden die legende des ms. Douce 114 (dialekt von Nottinghamshire?) / [ed. C. Horstmann].

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A litil prologe of þe englyshe compyloure.

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