Dialogues in French and English, par William Caxton | Arlima - Archives de littérature du Moyen Âge

Titre:

Dialogues in French and English; Instructions for travellers; A vocabulary in French and English

Date:

Vers 1483

Langue:

Français et anglais

Genre:

Forme:

Vers

Contenu:

Adaptation et traduction du Livre des mestiers, dialogues français-flamands du XIV^e siècle.

Incipit:

[Table des chapitres]
Cy commence la table
de cest prouffytable doctrine,
pour trouver tout par ordene
ce que on vouldra aprendre.
Premierment, l'invocaion de la Trinité–
[Texte]
Tres bonne doctrine
pour aprendre
briefment fransoys et engloys.
Ou nom du pere…

[Table des chapitres]
Hier begynneth the table
of this prouffytable lernynge,
for to fynde all by ordre
that whiche men wylle lerne.
Fyrst, the callyng of the trinite–
[Texte]
Ryght good lernyng
for to lerne
shortly frenssh and englyssh.
In the name of the fadre…

Explicit:

… et nous doinst perseverance
en bonnes operacions,
et apres cest vie transitorie
la pardurable joye et glorie!

… and us gyve perseveraunce
in good werkes,
and after lyf transitorie
the everlastyng joye and glorie.

Manuscrits

Éditions anciennes

[Vocabulary in French and English]
Westminster, [William Caxton], [vers 1480]
ARLIMA: EA3103 GW: M51229 ISTC: iv00315000

Éditions modernes

Dialogues in French and English, by William Caxton (adapted from a fourteenth-century book of dialogues in French and Flemish), edited from Caxton's printed text (about 1483), with introduction, notes, and word-lists, by Henry Bradley, London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner for the Early English Text Society (Early English Texts. Extra Series, 79), 1900, xii + 78 p. [GB] [IA: ex. 1, ex. 2]
Vocabulary in French and English: a facsimile of Caxton's edition, c. 1480. With introductions by J. C. T. Oates and L. C. Harmer, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1964, xxxv + 49 p.

Traductions modernes

Études

Cooper, Lisa H., « Urban utterances: merchants, artisans, and the alphabet in Caxton's Dialogues in French and English », New Medieval Literatures, 7, 2005, p. 127-161.
Cooper, Lisa H., Artisans and Narrative Craft in Late Medieval England, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, 82), 2011, xiii + 278 p. [PQ]
Édition antérieure:
- Cooper, Lisa H., "These crafty men." Figuring the Artisan in Late Medieval England (William Caxton, Guillaume de Deguileville), Ph. D. dissertation, Columbia University, New York, 2003.
Hanham, Alison, « Who made William Caxton's phrase-book? », The Review of English Studies, 56, n° 227, 2005, p. 712-729. DOI: 10.1093/res/hgi104

Dialogues in French and English

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