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Author:

Alexander B (Alliterative romance)

Title:

The alliterative romance of Alexander, from the unique manuscript in the Ashmolean museum. Edited by the Reverend Joseph Stevenson ... Printed for the Roxburghe Club.

Publisher:

W. Nicol,

Copyright Date:

1849

Description:

3 p. l., vi p., 1 l., 251, [1] p. 27 cm.

Subject:

Alexander,--the Great,--356-323 B.C.--Romances.

Other Authors:

Stevenson, Joseph, 1806-1895. ed.
Leo, archipresbyter, 10th cent. Historia de preliis.
Bodleian Library. Manuscript. Bodley 264.
Bodleian Library. Manuscript. Ashmole 44.
Roxburghe Club.

Notes:

Listed as no. 67 in the club's Catalogue of publications. Fragment of an early 15th century poem, based on a recension ("J©a") of the Historia de preliis. From Ashmolean ms. 44, now in the Bodleian. Edited by W. W. Skeat for the Early Eng. text society 1886 (Extra series, no. 47) Contains also (p. [195]-236) as "Appendix from the Bodleian manuscript" (Bodley ms. 264, Western ms. 2464) the fragment edited by Skeat in 1878 under title "Alexander and Dindimus" (Early Eng. text society. Extra series. 31) and by F. P. Magoun in "The gestes of King Alexander", 1929, where it is described as an "almost slavishly faithful translation" of a recension (J℗) of the Historia de preliis.

LCCN:

33023754

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)