lambeth library 853 1430 (1 risultati)

VG orig. green cloth, bevelled edges. All page edges gilt. 32 p.; 14 x 10.5 cm. Title with perched dove stamped in gold on front and blind on rear cover. Prior owner's bookplate & inscr NUC NH0652256 Contents: titles (first lines): The Sweetness of Jesus (Jesu, Thy sweetness who might see) 14 8-line stanzas -- Richard de Castre's Prayer to Jesus (Jesu, my Lord, that madest me) 14 4-line stanzas -- Be Thou my comfort, Christ Jesus (Jesu! who sprung of Jesse's root) 5 12-line stanzas -- The Love of Jesus (Love is life that lasteth aye) 19 4-line and 8-line stanzas -- See what our Lord suffered for our sake (Both young and old, whoe'er ye be) 9 8-line stanzas -- The virtues of the name Jesus (prose). From the preface: `The poems here collected, as well as the fragment of prose appended, are taken from a manuscript bearing the date of 1430. They are the work of unknown, probably of various hands. In preparing them for the more general reader, there has been no attempt at modernizing beyond what seemed necessary in order to render them pleasing and intelligible without the aid of glossary and notes. New Haven, Conn., Sept. 1869.' These have been adapted from: Hymns to the Virgin and Christ, the Parliament of Devils, and other religious poems, chiefly from the Archbishop of Canterbury's Lambeth ms. no. 853, edited by F. J. Furnivall. London: Early English Text Society, 1867 (EETS. Orig. ser. ; 24). In Julian's Dictionary of Hymnology (p. 344a) H. Leigh Bennett speaks of "Prayer to Jesus" and "The Love of Jesus" as poems `of great sweetness, from which centos might be made.' The arranger of this volume, unknown to Bennett, had already fulfiled this hope. Binding is Hardcover.