Details

Subject(s)

• Dance of death [Browse]
• English poetry—Middle English, 1100-1500 [Browse]

Tr

Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451? [Browse]

Related name

• Laurent, de Premierfait, -1418 [Browse]
• Lydgate, John, 1370?-1451? [Browse]
• Bergen, Henry, 1873- [Browse]
• Early English Text Society [Browse]

Ed

Bergen, Henry, 1873- [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Poems—England—1924-1927 [Browse]

Related work(s)

Laurent, de Premierfait, -1418. Des cas des nobles hommes et femmes. English (Middle English) [Browse]

Series

• Early English Text Society (Series). Extra series 121-124. [More in this series]
• Early English Text Society. Extra series, no. 121-124. 1924- 1927 (for 1918-1919)

Notes

• Originally issued as Publication no. 262 of the Carnegie Institution of Washington.
• "Of the edition ... printed by the Carnegie Institution of Washington, 400 copies have been generously presented by the Trustees to the Early English Text Society."
• "A paraphrase of Des cas des nobles hommes et femmes. Laurence de Premierfait's second, amplified version in French prose of Giovanni Boccaccio's De casibus virorum illustrium."--v. 1, p. x.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Action note

Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

Contents

pt. I. Introductory note. The metre. Boccaccio's and Laurence's prefaces, etc. Books I-II.--pt. II. Books III-V.--pt. III. Books VI-IX. Greneacre's Envoy on Bochas. The daunce of Machabree.--pt. IV. Bibliographical introduction: The relations of the manuscripts and prints. Description of the manuscripts. The prints. Editions of Boccaccio and Laurence. Notes on Laurence and Bochas [with extracts] Notes on the English text. Glossary. Index to Lydgate's text.

Other title(s)

• Fall of Princes.
• Daunce of Machabree.

LCCN

^^^24021963^//r48

OCLC

956521046

RCP

H - S

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