Selections from Early Middle English, 1130-1250. Part 2: Notes
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Selections from Early Middle English, 1130-1250. Part 2: Notes
English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500
75. #for--seið#: ‘Hanc epistolam scripsit dominus Iesus Xristus manibus
suis,’ Sunday Letter in An Eng. Misc., p. 400. The Latin quotations
which follow are probably from some redaction or expansion of the same
fiction.
79. #Ne beo# &c.: ‘nec aliud faciatis in die dominico nisi sacerdotibus
meis seruiatis,’ An Eng. Misc., 403.
80. #bisocnie#, visit, frequenting; elsewhere, petition, request:
Mätzner compares ON. kirkju-sókn: see chirchsocne 82/4; hamsocne 12/9.
82. #iset#, miswritten for iseit, translating ‘dicitur.’
85. #iloken#, observe, from the idea of keeping guard over something;
comp. 116/156.
86. #ester dei#: ‘Dominicum ergo diem Apostoli . . . religiosa
sollemnitate habendum sanxerunt, quia in eodem Redemptor noster a
mortuis resurrexit,’ Pseudo-August. Sermo cclxxx; ‘dies clarus in quo
resurrexit Dominus a morte . . . in quo Spiritus sanctus descendit in
Apostolos et in quo speramus Dominum nostrum . . . ad judicium
venturum,’ id. Sermo clxvii. Comp. Wulfstan 219/27-29, 230/26-28;
294/5-12; Alcuin, ii. 488; OEH i. 143/7.
91. #hafð mid hire#, there is inherent in it.
92. #mihte#, virtues, the power to accomplish certain purposes.
93. #eorðe þrelles#: a combination after the pattern of #eorðwaru#, as
in ‘Sunne dei blisseð togederes houeneware ⁊ horðeware,’ OEH i. 139/22:
not ‘slaves,’ Morris, but said of men generally as enslaved by earthly
pursuits; comp. 14/54-56.
94. #heom#: the corrupt reading of the MS. perhaps points to he heom as
the original; see 77/39 note. Comp. ‘þe sonenday is best of alle | þanne
aungles habbuz heore pley,’ Archiv lii. 35, the Latin has only ‘in quo
[die] gaudent angeli et archangeli maior diebus ceteris.’
96. #ireste . . . of#: comp. 76/6.
97. Whosoever then observes Sunday . . . let them be participators &c.,
is a sentence of much the same type as, ‘Se þe Drihten ondræde herie
hine, eall Iacobes cynn,’ Psalter, ed. Thorpe, xxi. 21; 77/39. Morris
suggests the change of heo to he, but singular and plural in these texts
often alternate: for #beo#, _pl. subj._, see 82/119. #þa oðer halie
daȝes#: the feast-days of obligation.
100. #abuten ende#: see 34/85 note.
_Greek_
Ἀναβατικὸν Παύλου [Anabatikon Paulou]
_Cross-References_
1/19 (note) = I. A (Worcester Fragments)
21/94 (note) = VI. (The Proverbs of Alfred)
34/80, 34/85, 40/181 (notes) = VIII. (Poema Morale)
72/179 (note) = IX. B (Ancrene Wisse: Outer Rule)
77/39 (note) = _present selection_
90/73 (note) = XIII. (Vices and Virtues)
p. 269 = V. (A Parable)
p. 312 = VIII. (Poema Morale)
p. 327 = VIII. (Poema Morale) under Dialect
_Errata_
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