The Middle English Physiologus

Titre:	Aucun titre dans le ms.; Middle English Physiologus; Middle English bestiary
Date:	XIII^e siècle
Langue:	Anglais
Genre:	Bestiaire
Forme:	802 vers
Contenu:	Traduction du Physiologus en vers de Theobaldus.
Incipit:	Natura leonis I^a Ðe leun stant on hille, and he man hunten here, oðer ðurg hif nefe smel, smake ðat he negge…
Explicit:	… In water ge iſ wis of heuekeſ come, and we in boke wið deules nome; in hole of ſton ge makeð hire neſt. In criſteſ milce ure hope iſ beſt.

Manuscrits

London, British Library, Arundel, 292, f. 4v-10v [⇛ Description]

Éditions anciennes

Éditions modernes

Hauptius, Moritz, et Heinrich Hoffmann, éd., Altdeutsche Blätter, Leipzig, Brockhaus, 1836-1840, 2 t. (ici t. 2, p. 99-120) [GB: t. 1, t. 2] [IA: t. 1, t. 2]
Édition par Thomas Wright.
Reliquiae Antiquae. Scraps from Ancient Manuscripts, Illustrating Chiefly Early English Literature and the English Language. Edited by Thomas Wright and James Orchard Halliwell, London, John Russell Smith, 1845, 2 t., iv + 327, iv + 287 p. (ici t. 1, p. 208-227) [GB: t. 1, t. 2] [IA: t. 1, t. 2]
Altenglische Sprachproben nebst einem Wörterbuche, unter Mitwirkung von Karl Goldbeck herausgegeben von Eduard Mätzner, Berlin, Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, 1867-1888, 5 t. en 2 vol. (ici t. 1:1, p. 55-75) [IA: t. 1:1, t. 1:2, t. 2:1, t. 2:2, t. 2:3]
An Old English Miscellany Containing a Bestiary, Kentish Sermons, Proverbs of Alfred, Religious Poems of the Thirteenth Century, from manuscripts in the British Museum, Bodleian Library, Jesus College Library, etc. edited with introduction and index of words by the Rev. Richard Morris, London, Trübner (Early English Text Society. Original Series, 49), 1872, xvi + 308 p. (ici p. 1-25) [GB] [HT] [IA: ex. 1, ex. 2]
Édition antérieure:
- Early English Alliterative Poems, in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century. Copied and edited from a unique manuscript in the library of the British Museum, with an introduction, notes, and glossarial index, by Richard Morris, London, Trübner (Early English Text Society. Original Series, 1), 1864, xli + 216 p. [GB] [HT] [IA]
Réimpressions:
- Early English Alliterative Poems, in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century. Copied and edited from a unique manuscript in the library of the British Museum, Cotton, Nero A. X with an introduction, notes, and glossarial index, by Richard Morris. Third reprint, London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner and Co. (Early English Text Society. Original Series, 1), 1896, xliv + 216 p. [GB] [IA]
- Early English Alliterative Poems, in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century, edited from the unique manuscript British Museum MS. Cotton Nero A. X by Richard Morris, London, New York et Toronto, Oxford University Press (Early English Text Society. Original Series, 1), 1965, xliv + 216 p. [HT]
Selections from Early Middle English, 1130-1250, edited with introductions and notes by Joseph Hall, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1920, 2 t. (ici p. 176-196) [IA: t. 1, t. 2]
Réimpressions:
- 1949
- 1951
- 1953
- 1956
- 1958
- 1963
Early Middle English Verse and Prose, éd. J. A. Bennett and G. V. Smithers, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 2^e éd., 1968.
Il bestiario medio inglese, Ms Arundel 292 della British library, a cura di Dora Faraci, Roma, Japadre, 1990, 263 p.-[13] f. de pl.
The Middle English Physiologus, edited by Hanneke Wirtjes, Oxford, New York et Toronto, Oxford University Press (Early English Text Society, 299), 1991, xcv + 65 p.
The Medieval Bestiary in English: Texts and Translations of the Old and Middle English Physiologus, edited and translated by Megan Cavell, Peterborough, Broadview Press, 2022, 186 p.

Traductions modernes

en anglais:
- Morris 1872 (voir sous Éditions modernes)
- Cavell 2022 (voir sous Éditions modernes)

Études

Emory, O. J., « Hall's edition of the Middle English Bestiary », Modern Language Notes, 72:4, 1957, p. 241-242. DOI: 10.2307/3043093
Faraci, Dora, « The bestiary and its sources: some examples », Reinardus, 7, 1994, p. 31-43. DOI: 10.1075/rein.7.04far
Lewis, Liam, « Animal Umwelt and sound milieus in the Middle English Physiologus », Exemplaria, 34:1, 2022, p. 24-39. DOI: 10.1080/10412573.2021.2020991

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