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Anglo-Norman Literature and its Background

Title:

Anglo-Norman Literature and its Background

Author:

Legge, D.

Location:

Oxford

Notes:

• CCCC MS 8 Brief mention of the Anglo-Norman love song Volez oyer le Castoy found on the flyleaf of CCCC MS 8, p. 345
• CCCC MS 50 Brief discussion of the Anglo-Norman didactic poem Les Quatre filles de Dieu as found in CCCC MS 50, noting that the text favours an attribution to Robert Grosseteste’s version of the tale, pp. 223-4 There is a discussion of the Anglo-Norman poem Gui de Warewic as found in CCCC MS 50, pp. 162-71 THere is also a brief discussion of the various traditions of the prose text of the Anglo-Norman Brut as found in CCCC MS 50, pp. 280-83 Finally, there is a discussion of the Anglo-Norman romance Amis et Amiles as found in CCCC MS 50, pp. 115-21
• CCCC MS 66A Brief mention of CCCC MS 66A as containing the ’Legend of the Holy Rood’, the only poem in French devoted entirely to this tale, dating the manuscript to c. 1243-54, p. 272
• CCCC MS 133 Brief description of the circumstances of the writing of the Anglo-Norman French Scalacronica with some short quotations from the text as found in CCCC MS 133, pp. 283-93
• CCCC MS 218 Discussion of the Anglo-Norman text of Le livre de seyntz medecines as found in CCCC MS 218, pp. 216-20
• CCCC MS 450 Extract of the last eight lines of Walter of Bibbesworth’s Prayer to the Virgin as found in CCCC MS 450 but taken from BL Add Ms 46919 (formerly Phillipps 8336), p. 348
• CCCC MS 471 Brief discussion of the life and works of John of Howden (d. 1275) whose Anglo-Norman poem Rossignos is found in CCCC MS 471, pp. 232-5

Reference Type:

Book

Manuscript:

bc961dv0378