Christ I

Titre:	Aucun titre dans le ms.; The Advent; Christ I (titre moderne)
Date:	Vers 800
Langue:	Anglais
Genre:
Forme:	440 vers
Contenu:
Incipit:	[le début manque] cyninge. ðu eart se weallstan þe ða wyrhtan iu wiðwurpon to weorce. Wel þe geriseð þæt þu heafod sie healle mærre, ond gesomnige side weallas…
Explicit:	… efne in þam eðle þær he ær ne cwom, in lifgendra londes wynne, þær he gesælig siþþan eardað, ealne widan feorh wunað butan ende. Amen.
Continuations:	Cynewulf, Christ II

Manuscrits

Exeter, Cathedral Library, 3501, f. 8r-14r [⇛ Description]

Éditions anciennes

Éditions modernes

Codex Exoniensis. A Collection of Anglo-Saxon Poetry, from a Manuscript in the Library of the Dean and Chapter of Exeter, with an English translation, notes and indexes, by Benjamin Thorpe, London, Pickering for The Society of Antiquaries of London, 1842, xvi + 546 p. (ici p. 1-27) [GB] [IA]
Bibliothek der angelsächsischen Poesie begründet von C. W. M. Grein. Neu bearbeitet, vermehrt und nach eignen Lesungen der Handschriften herausgegeben von Richard Paul Wülcker, Kassel, Wigand, 1883-1898, 5 t. (ici t. 3, p. 1-15) [GB: t. 1, t. 2, t. 3] [IA: t. 1, t. 2, t. 3]
Éditions antérieures:
- Bibliothek der angelsächsischen Poesie in kritisch bearbeiteten Texten und mit vollständigem Glossar herausgegeben von C. W. M. Grein, Göttingen, Wigand, 1857-1864, 4 t. [GB: t. 1, t. 2, t. 3, t. 4] [IA: t. 1, t. 2, t. 3, t. 4]
- Bibliothek der angelsächsischen Poesie begründet von C. W. M. Grein. Neu bearbeitet, vermehrt und nach eignen Lesungen der Handschriften herausgegeben von Richard Paul Wülcker. I. Band — 1. Hälfte, Kassel, Wigand, 1881, vii + 422 p. + [4] p. de pl. [GB] [IA]
- Bibliothek der angelsächsischen Poesie begründet von C. W. M. Grein. Neu bearbeitet, vermehrt und nach eignen Lesungen der Handschriften herausgegeben von Richard Paul Wülcker. II. Band — 1. Hälfte, Kassel, Wigand, 1888, vi + 210 p. [GB] [IA]
- Bibliothek der angelsächsischen Poesie begründet von C. W. M. Grein. Neu bearbeitet, vermehrt und nach eignen Lesungen der Handschriften herausgegeben von Richard Paul Wülcker. III. Band — 1. Hälfte, Kassel, Wigand, 1897, [vii] + 248 p. [GB] [IA]
Cynewulf's Christ, an eighth century English epic edited, with a modern rendering, by Israel Gollancz, London, Nutt, 1892, xxiii + 215 p. (ici p. 2-38) [GB] [IA]
The Exeter Book, an anthology of Anglo-Saxon poetry presented to Exeter Cathedral by Leofric, first bishop of Exeter (1050-1071), and still in the possession of the Dean and Chapter, edited from the manuscript, with a translation, notes, introduction, etc., by Israel Gollancz. Part I. Poems I-VIII, London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Co. for the Early English Text Society (Early English Text Society. Original Series, 104), 1895, viii + 305 p. (ici p. 2-28) [GB] [IA]
Die Handschriften von Exeter: Metra des Boetius, Salomo und Saturn, die Psalmen. Herausgegeben von Bruno Assmann nebst einer Lebensskizze Grein's von Richard Paul Wülker und mit Grein's Bildnis, Leipzig, Wigand's Verlag (Bibliothek der angelsächsischen Poesie, 3:1-2), 1897-1898, 2 t. en 1 vol., [vi] + 248, xiii + 247-490 p. (ici t. 1) [GB] [IA]
The Christ of Cynewulf, a Poem in Three Parts: the Advent, the Ascension, and the Last Judgment, edited with introduction, notes, and glossary by Albert S. Cook, Boston, Ginn (The Albion Series), 1900, ciii + 297 p. [GB] [IA: ex. 1, ex. 2]
Considère à tort que Christ I, Christ II et Christ III sont l'œuvre de Cynewulf.
The Exeter Book Part Two, London, Oxford University Press (Early English Text Society. Original Series), 1934.
The Exeter Book, éd. George Philip Krapp et Elliot Van Kirk Dobbie, New York, Columbia University Press (The Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records, 3), 1936.
The Old English Elegies: A Critical Edition and Genre Study by Anne L. Klinck, Montreal, McGill-Queen's University Press, 1992.
The Exeter Anthology of Old English Poetry, éd. Bernard J. Muir, Revised 2nd Edition, Exeter, University of Exeter Press, 2000, 2 t.
Beowulf and Other Old English Poems edited and translated by Craig Williamson; with a foreword by Tom Shippey, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011, xxxi + 255 p.

Traductions modernes

en anglais:
- Thorpe 1842 (voir sous Éditions modernes)
- Gollancz 1892 (voir sous Éditions modernes)
- The Christ of Cynewulf, a Poem in Three Parts: the Advent, the Ascension, and the Last Judgment, translated into English prose by Charles Huntington Whitman, Boston, Ginn et The Atheneum Press, 1900, vi + 62 p. [GB] [IA: ex. 1, ex. 2]
  Considère à tort que Christ I, Christ II et Christ III sont l'œuvre de Cynewulf.
- Select Translations from Old English Poetry, edited by Albert S. Cook and Chauncey B. Tinker. Revised edition, Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1935, xi + 195 p. (ici p. 80-82) [HT] [IA]
  Éditions antérieures:
  - Select Translations from Old English Poetry, edited with prefatory notes and indexes by Albert S. Cook and Chauncey B. Tinker, Boston, Ginn, 1902, xi + 195 p. [GB] [IA: ex. 1, ex. 2]
  - Select Translations from Old English Poetry, edited by Albert S. Cook and Chauncey B. Tinker. Revised edition, Boston, Ginn, 1926, xi + 195 p. [GB] [IA]
  Traduction partielle.
- Anglo-Saxon Poetry, selected and translated by Professor R. K. Gordon. Revised edition, London, Dent; New York, Dutton (Everyman's Library, 794), 1954, xiv + 334 p. (ici p. 133-140)
  Éditions antérieures:
  - Anglo-Saxon Poetry, selected and translated by Professor R. K. Gordon, London et Toronto, Dent; New York, Dutton (Everyman's Library, 794; Poetry and Drama), 1926, xvi + 367 p. [HT] [IA]
  - Anglo-Saxon Poetry, selected and translated by Professor R. K. Gordon, London et Toronto, Dent; New York, Dutton (Everyman's Library, 794; Poetry and Drama), 1930, xvi + 367 p. [IA]
  - 1934
  - Anglo-Saxon Poetry, selected and translated by Professor R. K. Gordon, London et Toronto, Dent; New York, Dutton (Everyman's Library, 794; Poetry and Drama), 1937, xvi + 367 p. [IA]
  - 1950
  Réimpressions:
  - Anglo-Saxon Poetry, selected and translated by Professor R. K. Gordon. Revised edition, London, Dent; New York, Dutton (Everyman's Library, 794), 1957, xiv + 334 p. [IA]
  - Anglo-Saxon Poetry, selected and translated by Professor R. K. Gordon. Revised edition, London, Dent; New York, Dutton (Everyman's Library, 794), 1962, xiv + 334 p. [IA]
  - 1964
  - Anglo-Saxon Poetry, selected and translated by Professor R. K. Gordon. Revised edition, London, Dent; New York, Dutton (Everyman's Library, 794), 1967, xiv + 334 p. [IA]
  - 1970
  - Anglo-Saxon Poetry, selected and translated by Professor R. K. Gordon. Revised edition, London, Melbourne et Toronto, Dent; New York, Dutton (Everyman's Library, 794), 1977, xiv + 334 p. [IA]
- Early English Poetry, translated by Charles W. Kennedy, New York, Oxford University Press, 1961.
- Anglo-Saxon Poetry: An Anthology of Old English Poems in Prose Translation, with introduction and headnotes by S. A. J. Bradley, London, Dent (Everyman's Library, 1794), 1982, xxvi + 559 p. — Réimpr.: 1995; 2000.
- Williamson 2011 (voir sous Éditions modernes)

Études

Burgert, Dom Edward, The Dependence of Part I of Cynewulf's Christ upon the Antiphonary, Washington D.C., Catholic University Press, 1921.
Chase, Colin, « God's presence through grace as the theme of Cynewulf's Christ II and the relationship of this them to Christ I and Christ III », Anglo-Saxon England, 3, 1974, p. 87-101.
Dietrich, « Cynevulfs Christ », Zeitschrift für deutsches Alterthum, 9, 1853, p. 193-214. [GB] [HT] [IA: ex. 1, ex. 2]
Hill, Thomas D., « Literary history and Old English poetry: the case of Christ I, II, and III », Sources of Anglo-Saxon Culture, éd. Paul E. Szarmach et V. D. Oggins, Kalamazoo, Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University (Studies in Medieval Culture, 20), 1986, p. 3-22.
Hill, Thomas D., « A liturgical source for Christ I 164-213 (Advent Lyric VII) », Medium Ævum, 46:1, 1977, p. 12-15. DOI: 10.2307/43621097
Irving, Edward B., Jr., « The advent of poetry: Christ I », Anglo-Saxon England, 25, 1996, p. 123-134.
Klinck, Anne Lingard, Female Characterisation in Old English Poetry, Ph. D. dissertation, University of British Columbia, 1976, v + 277 p. DOI: 10.14288/1.0093874
Klinck, Anne L., « Female characterisation in Old English poetry and the growth of psychological realism: Genesis B and Christ I », Neophilologus, 63:4, 1979, p. 597-610. DOI: 10.1007/bf01512367
Liuzza, Roy M., « The Old English Christ and Guthlac texts, manuscripts, and critics », The Review of English Studies, 41 (161), 1990, p. 1-11.
Rankin, Susan, « The liturgical background of the Old English Advent lyrics: a reappraisal », Learning and Literature in Anglo-Saxon England: Studies Presented to Peter Clemoes on the Occasion of His Sixty-Fifth Birthday, éd. Michael Lapidge et Helmut Gneuss, Cambridge et New York, Cambridge University Press, 1985, p. 317-340.
Swanson, David A., The Old English Christ Poems and Anglo-Saxon Law, Ph. D. dissertation, Florida State University, 2011, vi + 95 p. [flvc.org]

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