The storie of Asneth

Titre:
Date:	Vers 1400
Langue:	Anglais
Genre:
Forme:	933 vers
Contenu:
Incipit:	As I on hilly halkes logged me late, biside ny of a Ladi sone was I war; La Bele me desired in Englysh to translate the Latyn of that lady, Asneth Putifar…
Explicit:	… florishynge and fecunde with femenyn beauté, meke, mylde, and merciful, of pité sche bar the prise. Comely, kynde, and curteis, in nobleye of nurture, vernant in alle vertu, plesaunt and demure.

Manuscrits

Éditions anciennes

Éditions modernes

MacCracken, Henry Noble, « The Storie of Asneth. An unknown Middle English translation of a lost Latin version », The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 9:2, 1910, p. 224-264. [jstor.org] [GB] [HT] [IA]
Religious Lyrics of the XVth Century, edited by Carleton Brown, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1939, p. 241-243. — Réimpr.: 1962; 1965; 1967.
Heroic Women from the Old Testament in Middle English Verse, edited by Russell A. Peck, Kalamazoo, Medieval Institute Publications (Middle English Texts), 1991, x + 157 p. [lib.rochester.edu]

Traductions modernes

Études

Dwyer, R. A., « Asenath of Egypt in Middle English », Medium Ævum, 39:2, 1970, p. 118-122. DOI: 10.2307/43631266
Hume, Cathy, « The Storie of Asneth: a fifteenth-century commission and the mystery of its epilogue », Medium Ævum, 82:1, 2013, p. 44-65. DOI: 10.2307/43632969
Pervo, R. I., « Joseph and Asenath and the Greek novel », SBL 1976 Seminar Papers, éd. G. MacRae, Missoula, Montana, Scholars Press (SBL Seminar Papers Series, 10), 1976, p. 171-181.
West, S., « Joseph and Asenath: a neglected Greek romance », The Classical Quarterly, n. s., 24, 1974, p. 70-81.