Research Catalog

Title

Poems from BL MS Harley 913, 'the Kildare manuscript' / edited by Thorlac Turville-Petre.

Publication

Oxford, United Kingdom : Published for the Early English Text Society by the Oxford University Press, 2015.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Turville-Petre, Thorlac
• British Library. Manuscript. Harley 913
• British Library. Manuscript. Lansdowne 418

Series Statement

Early English Text Society ; O.S. 345

Uniform Title

• Early English Text Society (Series). Original series ; no. 345.
• Land of Cokaygne.

Alternative Title

Poems from British Library MS Harley 913, 'the Kildare manuscript'

Subject

• English language > Middle English, 1100-1500 > Texts
• English poetry > Irish authors
• English poetry > Middle English, 1100-1500
• English language > Ireland > Texts
• Franciscans > Ireland
• British Library. Manuscript. Harley 913
• Franciscans
• British Library

Genre/Form

Poetry.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages lv-lxiv) and indexes.

Language (note)

• Poems primarily in Middle English, with some in Anglo-Norman; introduction and commentary in modern English.

Contents

• Introduction: Manuscript -- Language and dialect -- Historical context -- The Franciscans in Ireland -- Literary context -- Previous editions -- Treatment of the texts.
• The texts of BL MS Harley 913: The land of Cokaygne -- Five evil things -- Satire -- Song of Michael Kildare -- Two alliterating French verses -- Sarmun -- Fifteen signs -- Seven sins -- Christ on the Cross -- Fall and Passion -- Ten Commandments -- Lullaby -- Song on the times -- Pers of Bermingham -- Elde -- The walling of New Ross -- Repentance of love -- Nego -- Earth -- Appendix: Texts from BL MS Lansdownee 418.

Call Number

JFD 16-1441

ISBN

• 9780198739166
• 0198739168

OCLC

909250725

Title

Poems from BL MS Harley 913, 'the Kildare manuscript' / edited by Thorlac Turville-Petre.

Publisher

Oxford, United Kingdom : Published for the Early English Text Society by the Oxford University Press, 2015.

Edition

First edition.

Description

lxiv, 173 pages : illustration, map, facsimile ; 23 cm

Type of Content

text

still image

cartographic image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Early English Text Society ; O.S. 345

Early English Text Society (Series). Original series ; no. 345.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages lv-lxiv) and indexes.

Summary

"British Library MS Harley 913 is known as the 'Kildare Manuscript' from the authorship of one of the poems by Friar Michael of Kildare. This important Anglo-Irish anthology of English, Anglo-Norman and Latin was compiled by a Franciscan, perhaps in Waterford in the 1330s. It is best known for two poems, often anthologized: 'The Land of Cockaygne,' a fantasy of a sexual and culinary paradise, and the mordant lullaby 'Lollai, lollai, litel child', but others are equally fine. The poems are presented here for the first time in their literary and cultural context. The collection offers the earliest evidence for the English language in Ireland, as well as texts dealing specifically with Irish affairs , the Franciscan order, and Goliardic satire. The English and Anglo-Norman poems are edited complete, with detailed annotation and glossaries, and full descriptions are given of the Latin texts. An appendix gives details of a seventeenth-century copy in BL MS lansdowne 418 of eleven of the texts, including five now lost from Harley 913."-- Publisher description.

Language

Poems primarily in Middle English, with some in Anglo-Norman; introduction and commentary in modern English.

Added Author

Turville-Petre, Thorlac, editor.

British Library. Manuscript. Harley 913.

British Library. Manuscript. Lansdowne 418.

Added Title

Land of Cokaygne.

Research Call Number

JFD 16-1441