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Document Details : Title: A Fragment of Boendale's Melibeus in England Subtitle: Manuscript, Text, and Context Author(s): PUTTER, Ad Journal: Spiegel der Letteren Volume: 62 Issue: 2 Date: 2020 Pages: 143-169 DOI: 10.2143/SDL.62.2.3288553 Abstract : This article is an in-depth study of a manuscript fragment of Jan van Boendale’s Melibeus that has recently come to light in The National Archives at Kew (London). It gives a detailed codicological description, a transcription of the text, and a discussion of its history, its dialect, and its textual relationship to the other manuscript witnesses. The research presented here supports the conclusion that modern editions of the poem are based on a manuscript that presents an abbreviated version of the poem, and provides further evidence of the widespread popularity of Boendale’s poetry, which appears to have circulated in medieval England. |
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