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CURSOR MUIlDI, an See also:English poem in the See also:Northern See also:dialect dating from the 13th See also:century. It is a religious epic of 24,000 lines " over-See also:running " the See also:history of the See also:world as related in the Old and New Testaments. " Cursur o werld See also:man aght it See also:call, For almast it over-See also:rennes all." The author explains in his See also:prologue his reasons for undertaking the See also:work. Men See also:desire to read old romances of See also:Alexander, See also:Julius See also:Caesar, See also:Greece, See also:Troy, See also:Brut, See also:Arthur, of Tristram, Sweet Ysoude and others. But better than tales of love is the See also:story of the Virgin who is man's best See also:lover, therefore in her See also:honour he will write this See also:book, founded on the steadfast ground of the See also:Holy Trinity. He writes in English for the love of English See also:people of merry See also:England, so that those who know no See also:French may understand. The history is treated under seven ages. The first four include the See also:period from the creation of the world to the successors of See also:Solomon, the fifth deals with See also:Mary and the See also:birth and childhood of Jesus, the See also:sixth with the lives of See also:Christ and the See also:chief apostles, and with the finding of the holy See also:cross, and the seventh with Doomsday. Four See also:short 'seems follow, more in some See also:MSS. The bulk of the poem is written in rhyming couplets of short lines of four accents, and maintains a See also:fair level throughout. The narrative is enlivened by many legends and much entertaining See also:matter See also:drawn from various See also:sources; and the numerous transcripts of it prove that it was able to hold its own against profane See also:romance.
The chief sources of the compilation have been identified by Dr Haenisch. For the Old Testament history the author draws largely from the Historia scholastica of See also:- PETER
- PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
- PETER (PEDRO)
- PETER, EPISTLES OF
- PETER, ST
Peter Comestor; for the history of the Virgin he often translates literally from See also:Wace's Etablissement de la fete de la conception Notre See also:Dame; the parables of the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king and four daughters, and of the See also:castle of Love and See also:- GRACE (Fr. grace, Lat. gratia, from grates, beloved, pleasing; formed from the root cra-, Gr. xav-, cf. xaipw, x6p,ua, Xapts)
- GRACE, WILLIAM GILBERT (1848– )
Grace, are taken from " Sent See also:Robert bok " (1.9516), that is, from the Chasteau d'Amour of Robert See also:Grosseteste, See also:bishop of See also:Lincoln; other sources are the apocryphal gospels of See also:Matthew and Nicodemus, a See also:southern English poem on the See also:Assumption of Our See also:Lady, attributed by the writer of Cursor mundi to See also:Edmund See also:Rich of Pontigny, the See also:Vulgate, the Legenda aurea of Jacobus de Voragine, and the De vita et morte sanctorum of Isidore of See also:Seville. The See also:original of the See also:section on the invention of the holy cross is still to seek. In its See also:general See also:plan the work is similar to the Livre de sapience of Herman de See also:Valenciennes.
Of the author nothing is known. In the See also:Cotton MS. See also:Vespasian (A III.) the name of the owner See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William Cosyn is given (for particulars of this See also:family, which is mentioned in See also:Lincolnshire records as See also:early as 1276, see Dr H. Hupe in the E.E.T.S. ed. of Cursor mundi, vol. i. p. 124 *). The date of the book was placed by Dr J.A.H. See also:- MURRAY
- MURRAY (or MORAY), EARLS OF
- MURRAY (or MORAY), JAMES STUART, EARL OF (c. 1531-1570)
- MURRAY (or MORAY), SIR ROBERT (c. 1600-1673)
- MURRAY, ALEXANDER STUART (1841-1904)
- MURRAY, DAVID (1849– )
- MURRAY, EUSTACE CLARE GRENVILLE (1824–1881)
- MURRAY, JAMES (c. 1719-1794)
- MURRAY, JOHN
- MURRAY, JOHN (1778–1820)
- MURRAY, LINDLEY (1745–1826)
- MURRAY, LORD GEORGE (1694–1760)
- MURRAY, SIR JAMES AUGUSTUS HENRY (1837– )
- MURRAY, SIR JOHN (1841– )
Murray (The Dialect of the Southern Counties of See also:Scotland, 1873, p. 30) in the last See also:quarter of the 13th century, and the See also:place of See also:writing near See also:Durham. Dr Hupe (loc. cit. p. 186 *) gives See also:good reasons for believing that the author was a Lincoln-See also:shire man, who wrote between 126o and 1290, although the Cotton MS. probably belongs to the See also:late 14th century. In the See also:Gottingen MS. there are lines (17099-17110) desiring the reader to pray for See also:John of Lindbergh, " that this bock gart dight," and cursing anybody who shall steal it. Lindberg is probably See also:Limber Magna, near Ulceby, in See also:north Lincolnshire. Dr Hupe hazards an See also:identification of the author with this John of Lindberg, who may have been a member of the Cistercian See also:Abbey of Lindberg; but this is improbable.
Cursor mundi was edited for the Early English See also:Text Society in 1874-1893 by Dr See also:Richard See also:Morris in parallel columns from four MSS.:—Cotton Vespasian A III., See also:British Museum; See also:Fairfax MS. 14, in the Bodleian library, See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford; MS.•theol. 107 at Gottingen; and MS. R. 3.8 in Trinity See also:College, See also:Cambridge. The edition includes a " See also:Preface " by the editor, " An Inquiry into the Sources of the Cursormundi" (1885), by Dr Haenisch, an See also:essay " On the Filiation and the Text of the MSS. of Cursor mundi" (1885), by Dr H. Hupe, " Cursor Studies and Criticisms on the Dialects of its MSS." (1888), by Dr Hupe and a glossary by Dr Max Kaluza.
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