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Cloth. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. First Edition. Three Alliterative Saints; Hymns. Previous owners name and date to inside cover. The Alliterative Katherine Hymn by Richard Spalding. (Bodeian Library MS Bodley Rolls 22). The Alliterative John Evangelist Hymn (Lincoln Cathedral Library MS 91). The Alliterative John Baptist Hymn (British Library Additional MS 39574).This edition presents the three extant texts of a largely unrecognised genre in Middle English verse: odes to saints written in strong-stress metre in fourteen-line stanzas. These hymns were composed in the North and East Midlands in around 1400. This is the first edition of these linguistically difficult 'knotty' poems for many years: they were previously edited separately in 1907 (re-edited, 1937), 1889 and 1921. The new edition takes account if recent scholarship on the Middle English alliterative verse tradition, and includes full discussion of the three poems' hagiographical and historical context. Illustrated. 120 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.).…