Scribal glosses to Elde and Earth in London, British Library, MS Harley 913

London, British Library, MS Harley 913, written in the early fourteenth century, contains a Middle English verse piece, Elde, about the misery of old age, and a bilingual poem, Earth, in English and Latin on the theme that humans composed of dust will return to dust. In the margins of these works are found eight glosses entered by the scribe of the two poems. What gives these glosses potential significance is that they are the only such marginal additions in the manuscript. This paper examines these glosses for clues about why the scribe entered them

The poem known as Satire from London, British Library, MS Harley 913: a new interpretation

London, British Library, MS Harley 913, written in Ireland in the fourteenth century, contains works in English, French and Latin. Among these is the English satirical poem commonly referred to as Satire. Although not only amusing but also cleverly composed, it has never been particularly popular. The issue has been that many modern readers find it difficult to understand its allusions to the social milieu and customs of a medieval Irish town. This paper attempts to uncover these allusions and proposes that the poem portrays and satirizes religious, merchants, traders and artisans in an Irish marketplace on Michaelmas Day

Harley 913 写本に収録されている２カ国語による作品Erth について： ラテン語と中英語のスタンザの関係を考える

　ロンドン大英図書館が所蔵する写本Harley913は1340年頃、アイルランドで一人の写字生によって筆写された。時代を反映して、ラテン語、中英語、フランス語の3ヵ国語で書かれ、フランシスコ托鉢修道会に関わる記録の他、韻文や散文によるさまざまな宗教文学の作品が収められている。当時の社会を風刺した作品やパロディもたくさんあり、それらを読み解くには、歴史的背景を理解しなければならない。本論文は、その中でも、earth の持つ多くの意味を利用した言葉遊びを駆使し、中英語とラテン語のスタンザが交互に現れる詩Erthを取り上げ、その詩の中に見られる両言語の関係について考察する。研究論

The poem Nego of London, British Library, MS Harley 913, as a satire on medieval disputes concerning philosophy and theology

1330年頃、アイルランドで、フランシスコ会の托鉢修道士によって筆写されたと考えられる大英図書館所蔵の写本Harley 913には、哲学と神学に関する論争の諷刺詩Negoが収録されている。24行の短い詩ではあるが、13～14世紀のヨーロッパで巻き起こった神学論争と合わせて読むと、作者が、大学教育の一環として行われていた「討論」の無意味さを揶揄していることがわかる。また、ドミニコ会との対立関係も背景にあることがうかがえる

Ancrene Wisse: possessed by a witch? : a note on the ownership of London, British Library, MS. Cotton Vitellius F vii

From the evidence of an inscription (imperfect because of a fire in 1731) on the last page of London, British Library, MS. Cotton Vitellius F vii, Emily Hope Alien concluded that the Vitellius manuscript must have been given by Joan Holand to Eleanor Cobham, the second wife of Humphrey Duke of Gloucester. In this paper I have re-examined the evidence. I propose that the French text of Ancrene Wisse in the Vitellius manuscript might have been written sometime while Joan Holand\u27s great grandmother, Joan de Geneville (1285-1356), was young, in or around Wigmore or Ludlow. Both places have a strong connection with one of the earliest copies of Ancrene Wisse in English