Poema Morale - Middle English Compendium

Middle English Bibliography Entry

Poema Morale

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External References:	IMEV 1272 NIMEV 1272 DIMEV 2113 Manual 9.XXII.204
Manuscript, print, and LALME references:	London, Lambeth Palace Library 487 . (Pref. MS for part of text) LAEME: Item 5. Entry 3. "Fols. 59v-65r, Poema Morale." NW Worcs. Cambridge, Trinity College B.14.52 (335) . (Pref. MS for part of text) LAEME: Item 4. Entry 1. "Opening gathering .. [containing] Poema Morale .. in Hand A." W Essex. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Digby 4 . LAEME: Item 8. Fols. 97r-110v, Poema Morale. W Central Kent. London, British Library, Egerton 613 . LAEME: Item 7 and 6. Entry 5 and 6. Hand F. Poema Morale, copy 1, fols. 7r-12v.; Hand G. Poema Morale, copy 2, fols. 64r-70v. The two copies close to each other in SW Worcs. Oxford, Jesus College 29, Part 2 . LALME: vol. 1. 153. LP 7440. Herefords. LAEME: Item 1100 (1, 9, 250-255, 145). E Herefords. Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, McClean 123 . LAEME: Item 10. "Fol. 114v names of four English graphs...; fols. 115r-120r Poema Morale.... It is possible that the language may be somewhat mixed... M.L. Samuels believed the language to be of Essex with some western admixture." Central Gloucs.
Editions, facsimiles, and other sources cited:	Old English Homilies …, ser. 1, ed. R. Morris, 2 parts, Early English Text Society, Original Series 29, 34 (1867, 1868; reprint as one vol. 1988). Old English Homilies …, ser. 2, ed. R. Morris, Early English Text Society, Original Series 53 (1873; reprint 1973). J. Zupitza, "Zum Poema Morale," Anglia : Zeitschrift für englische Philologie 1 (1878). Early English Poems and Lives of Saints …, ed. F. J. Furnivall, Transactions of the Philological Society (1862). Alt- und Mittelenglisches Übungsbuch, eds. J. Zupitza and J. Schipper (1904). An Old English Miscellany, ed. R. Morris, Early English Text Society, Original Series 49 (1872; reprint 1988). A. C. Paues, "A Newly Discovered Manuscript of the Poema Morale," Anglia : Zeitschrift für englische Philologie 30 (1907). Old English Homilies, 1st series, ed. R. Morris, EETS 29, 34 (1867-8; reprint as one vol. 1988). odd pp. 159-83. (MSS Eg 613, Lamb 487) Old English Homilies, 2nd series, ed. R. Morris, EETS 53 (1873; reprint 1973). (MS Trin-C B.14.52) An Old English Miscellany, ed. R. Morris, EETS 49 (1872; reprint 1988). 58-71. (MS Jes-O 29)
MED title stencils and sources:	Lamb 487 a1225(?c1175) PMor. (Lamb 487) Old English Homilies …, ser. 1, ed. R. Morris, 2 parts, Early English Text Society, Original Series 29, 34 (1867, 1868; reprint as one vol. 1988).odd pp. 159-75(line 270). Note: Preferred manuscript for lines 1-270. Versions differ in lineation. Trin-C B.14.52 a1200(?c1175) PMor. (Trin-C B.14.52) Old English Homilies …, ser. 2, ed. R. Morris, Early English Text Society, Original Series 53 (1873; reprint 1973).228(line 275)-232. Note: Preferred manuscript for lines 275-400. MS redated Nov 2017 from a1225 to a1200 after consultation with OED. a1200 PMor. (Trin-C B.14.52) Old English Homilies …, ser. 2, ed. R. Morris, Early English Text Society, Original Series 53 (1873; reprint 1973).220-28(line 274). Note: MS redated Nov 2017 from a1225 to a1200 after consultation with OED. Dgb 4 a1225 PMor. (Dgb 4) J. Zupitza, "Zum Poema Morale," Anglia : Zeitschrift für englische Philologie 1 (1878).6-32. Note: MS redated November 2017 from ?a1250 to a1225 after consultation with OED. Eg 613 ?c1250 PMor. (Eg 613(1)) Old English Homilies …, ser. 1, ed. R. Morris, 2 parts, Early English Text Society, Original Series 29, 34 (1867, 1868; reprint as one vol. 1988).288-95, and odd pp.175(line 271)-183(line 396). Note: There are two copies of this work in Eg 613, distinguished in the MED as Eg 613(1) and Eg 613(2). Eg 613(1) appears on fols. 7-12. ?c1250 PMor. (Eg 613(1):Furn.) Early English Poems and Lives of Saints …, ed. F. J. Furnivall, Transactions of the Philological Society (1862).22-34. Note: Eg 613(1) appears on fols. 7-12. a1225 PMor. (Eg 613(2)) Alt- und Mittelenglisches Übungsbuch, eds. J. Zupitza and J. Schipper (1904).81-91(line 370). Note: There are two copies of this work in Eg 613, distinguished in the MED as Eg 613(1) and Eg 613(2). Eg 613(2) appears on fols. 64-70. Jes-O 29 a1300 PMor. (Jes-O 29) An Old English Miscellany, ed. R. Morris, Early English Text Society, Original Series 49 (1872; reprint 1988).58-71. McC 123 a1300 PMor. (McC 123) A. C. Paues, "A Newly Discovered Manuscript of the Poema Morale," Anglia : Zeitschrift für englische Philologie 30 (1907).227-37. Note: LAEME prefers date of c1300.