Selections from Early Middle English, 1130-1250. Part 2: Notes
General
Selections from Early Middle English, 1130-1250. Part 2: Notes
English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500
1/3 (note) = I. A (Worcester Fragments)
81/67, 81/80, 81/85 (notes) = XI. (Hic Dicendum est de Propheta)
91/93 (note) = XIII. (Vices and Virtues)
p. 312 = VIII. (Poema Morale)
_Errata_
#Phonology:# ... and _e_ (9 times), bed 11 [_comma missing_]
_ea_ in smeart _pt. s._ OEH ii. 21/27, _ia_ in giarked 84
[_“_ia_ in giarked 84” added by author_]
#eo#, _å_-umlaut of #e# [_a_-umlaut]
#eo#, _u_- and _å_-umlaut of #i# [_a_-umlaut]
#a# + #g# ... toȝanes OEH ii. 177/32 is #tōgēanes#.
[_corrected by author from #togeanes#_]
underfoð 106 (#-fēhþ#) has _o_ from the plural [#--fēhþ#]
#ēa# + #g# [#eā#]
In nemed 118 ... #ss# is simplified [#s# is]
The infinitive ... _pr. pl. subj._ 88, [88;]
_pt. pl._ 31; gon _inf._ 101, goð _pr. s._ 4, 56. [31,]
112. ... secundum rabanum [_lower-case as shown_]
XIII. VICES AND VIRTUES
#Manuscript:# Stowe 34, British Museum: of the early part of the
thirteenth century; written on vellum, 223 × 160 mm., by three scribes,
with numerous corrections by at least three other hands. It belonged
once to William Fleetwood, Recorder of London, and to Thomas Astley. See
Catalogue of the Stowe MSS., and Catalogue of an Exhibition of the Stowe
MSS., no. 240.
#Facsimile:# Palæographical Society; Second Series, plate 92.
#Edition:# Holthausen, F., Part i. Text and Translation. E. E. T. S.,
O. S. 89.
#Literature:# Schmidt, G. Ueber die Sprache und Heimat der ‘Vices and
Virtues.’ Leipzig, 1899; Philippsen, M. Die Deklination in den ‘Vices
and Virtues.’ Kieler Diss. Erlangen, 1911; Heuser, W., Anglia, xvii. 88.
#Phonology:# Oral #a# and #a# before nasals is _a_, wascen 82, swanc 4;
#a# before lengthening groups wavers between _a_ (9 times) and _o_ (5),
lande 16, londe 8, understanden 34, understonden 138. #æ# is regularly
_a_, after 42, cwað 94, was 3; wrecche 60, 116 comes from #wrecca#. #e#
is generally _e_, but umlaut #e# before nasal is _a_ (representing #æ#,
Bülbring, § 171) in namden 117, inamde 120, sant 127, sante 84, wante
88; before lengthening groups _e_, lengðe 45, but _a_ as above in andin
122, andeden 123, wand 93, and _æ_ in wænden 46, strænges 28; _a_, _æ_
for umlaut #e# before nasals is characteristic of the South-Eastern area
(Morsbach, § 108); _i_ for #e# in ðingþ 41 is due to confusion of
#þencan# and #þyncan#; hwilliche 112 descends from #hwilc#. _i_ is _i_,
bidde 52, finde 83; cherche 9 is #cyrice#, ferst 91, ðessere 22 (3) come
from forms with #y#. #o# is _o_, dropes 12, borde 15; ðane 3 is LWS.
#ðane#. #u# is _u_, cumeð 26, swunken 146, grundwall 53, but beswonken
136, forðer 45 (late North. #forþor#). #y# is _e_, euele 26, kennes 13,
þelliche 36; #mycel# is muchele 4 (3), beside michele 21 (8); þincþ 47,
63, þingþ 70 represent #þyncþ#.
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