Of Arthour and of Merlin

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Date:	Milieu du XIII^e siècle
Langue:	Anglais
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Forme:	9938 vers
Contenu:	Adaptation anglaise du Roman de Merlin en prose.
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Manuscrits

Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Advocates, 19.2.1, f. 201rb-256vb [⇛ Description]
« Auchinleck manuscript ».
London, British Library, Additional, 27879 [⇛ Description]
London, Lincoln's Inn Library, 150, f. 2r-3v et 13r-27v [⇛ Description]
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Douce 236

Éditions anciennes

A lytel treatyse of the byrth and prophecye of Marlyn
[Westminster], [Wynkyn de Worde], [après 1498]
ARLIMA: EA3085 GW: 12669 ISTC: im00498050 USTC: 516092 ESTC: S96176
A lytel treatyse of the byrth and prophecye of Marlyn
London, Wynkyn de Worde, 1510
ARLIMA: EA3086 USTC: 501094 ESTC: S100757
A lytel treatyse of the byrth and prophecye of Marlyn
London, Wynkyn de Worde, 1529
ARLIMA: EA3087 USTC: 518667 ESTC: S123823

Éditions modernes

Arthour and Merlin: a metrical romance. Now first edited from the Auchinleck MS. [by William B. D. D. Turnbull], Edinburgh, Abbotsford Club, 1838, xv + 361 p. [IA]
Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript. Ballades and Romances. Edited by John W. Hales and Frederick J. Furnivall, London, Trübner and Co., 1867-1868, 3 t. (ici t. 1, p. 401-496) [GB: t. 1, t. 2, t. 2:2, t. 3] [IA: t. 1, t. 2, t. 3]
Arthour and Merlin nach der Auchinleck-Hs. nebst zwei Beilagen herausgegeben von Eugen Kölbing, Leipzig, Reisland (Altenglische Bibliothek, 4), 1890, clxxxix + 504 p. [CMEPV] [GB] [IA]
Compte rendu:
Karl Breul, dans Englische Studien, 9, 1886, p. 456-466. [GB] [HT] [IA: ex. 1, ex. 2]
Réimpression:
- Amsterdam, Rodopi, 1968
Holland, William E., Merlin, MS. Lincoln's Inn 150: A Critical Edition, Ph. D. dissertation, Stanford University, 1971, cxxv + 228 p. [PQ]
Cylkowski, David Gerard, An Edition of the Middle English Romance "A Lytel Treatyse of Ye Byrth and Prophecye of Marlyn", Ph. D. dissertation, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1980, 250 p. [PQ]
Of Arthour and of Merlin, edited by O. D. Macrae-Gibson, Oxford, London et Toronto, Oxford University Press (Early English Text Society. Original Series, 268 et 279), 1973-1979, 2 t.

Traductions modernes

en anglais:
- Ellis, George, Specimens of Early English Metrical Romances, Chiefly Written During the Early Part of the Fourteenth Century; to which is Prefixed an Historical Introduction, Intended to Illustrate the Rise and Progress of Romantic Composition in France and England. A new edition, revised by J. O. Halliwell, London, Bohn (Bohn's Antiquarian Library), 1848, viii + 600 p. (ici p. 77-142) [GB] [IA]
  Éditions antérieures:
  - Ellis, George, Specimens of Early English Metrical Romances, Chiefly Written During the Early Part of the Fourteenth Century; to which is Prefixed an Historical Introduction, Intended to Illustrate the Rise and Progress of Romantic Composition in France and England, London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme; Edinburgh, Constable, 1805, 3 t., vii + 387, [iv] + 404, [iv] + 419 p. [IA: t. 1, t. 2, t. 3]
  - Ellis, George, Specimens of Early English Metrical Romances, Chiefly Written During the Early Part of the Fourteenth Century; to which is Prefixed an Historical Introduction, Intended to Illustrate the Rise and Progress of Romantic Composition in France and England, London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1811, 3 t., vii + 408, [iv] + 419, [iv] + 432 p. [IA: t. 1, t. 2, t. 3]
- Arthour and Merlin. Transcription and translation of the Oxford Bodelein [sic] Douce 236 MS, and link to transcription of Auchinleck MS [by] Eleanor Lawson. [www]
en français:
- Of Arthour and of Merlin. Traduction et introduction de Marie-Françoise Alamichel, Paris, TRaductions d'Extraits du Manuscrit d'Auchinleck (TREMA), Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne. [TREMA]
- Histoire d'Arthur et de Merlin. Roman moyen-anglais du XIV^e siècle traduit par Anne Berthelot, Grenoble, ELLUG (Moyen Âge européen), 2013, 172 p.

Études

Barnes, Geraldine, Counsel and Strategy in Middle English Romance, Cambridge, Brewer, 1993, 163 p.
Berthelot, Anne, « Merlin and Grisandole: or, the Wild Man imprisoned by the Damsel-Knight in the Suite-Merlin, Of Arthour and Merlyn, and the Rheinische Merlin fragment », Mélanges de langue, littérature et civilisation offerts à André Crépin, éd. D. Buschinger et A. Sancery, Amiens, Presses de l'Université de Picardie (Médievales, 44), 2008, p. 20-24.
Bridges, Venetia, Medieval Narratives of Alexander the Great: Transnational Texts in England and France, Cambridge, Brewer (Studies in Medieval Romance), 2018, xi + 306 p.
Calkin, Siobhain Bly, « Violence, Saracens, and English identity in Of Arthour and of Merlin », Arthuriana, 14:2, 2004, p. 17-36. [jstor.org]
Calkin, Siobhain Bly, Saracens and the Making of English Identity: The Auchinleck Manuscript, New York et London, Routledge (Studies in Medieval History and Culture), 2005, xii + 299 p.
Compte rendu:
Valerie Gonzalez, dans Al-Masāq, 22:1, 2010, p. 106-108. [www] DOI: 10.1080/09503110903549996
Clifton, Nicole, « Of Arthour and of Merlin as medieval children's literature », Arthuriana, 13:2, 2003, p. 9-22. DOI: 10.1353/art.2003.0031
Clifton, Nicole, « Early modern readers of the romance Of Arthour and of Merlin », Arthuriana, 24:2, 2014, p. 71-91. DOI: 10.1353/art.2014.0025
Holland, William E., « Formulaic diction and the descent of a Middle English romance », Speculum, 48, 1973, p. 89-109.
Liedholm, Astrid, A Phonological Study of the Middle English Romance "Arthour and Merlin" (Ms. Auchinleck), Uppsala, Almqvist och Wiksells boktryckeri, 1941, xxiii + 192 p.
Mehl, Dieter, Die mittelenglischen Romanzen des 13. und 14. Jahrhunderts, Heidelberg, Winter (Anglistische Forschungen, 93), 1967, 229 p.
Traduction:
- Mehl, Dieter, The middle English Romances of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries, London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1968, 300 p.
Scattergood, John, « Validating the high life in Of Arthour and of Merlin and Kyng Alisaunder », Essays in Criticism, 54, 2004, p. 323-350.
Sklar, Elizabeth, « Arthour and Merlin: the Englishing of Arthur », Michigan Academician, 8, 1975-1976, p. 49-57.

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