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''The Proverbs of Hendyng'' are a later thirteenth-century poem in which one Hendyng, son of Marcolf, utters a series of proverbial stanzas. They are in a tradition of Middle English proverbial poetry attested in the ''Proverbs of Alfred'' and the two texts include some proverbs in common.〔''Specimens of Early English'', ed. by Richard Morris and Walter W. Skeat, 4th edn, 2 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1872), II 35-42 (p. 295).〕 The rhyme-scheme is aabccb. Marcolf appears as an interlocutor with Solomon in some German poems in the Solomon and Saturn tradition,〔''Specimens of Early English'', ed. by Richard Morris and Walter W. Skeat, 4th edn, 2 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1872), II 35-42 (p. 294).〕 while ' "Hendyng" seems to be a personification generated from the word ''hende'' (clever" ), and seems to mean something like "the clever one" '.〔Christopher Cannon, ''Middle English Literature'' (Cambridge: Polity, 2008).〕 The ''Proverbs'' are also noted for containing the earliest attestation of the word ''cunt'' in English outside place- and personal-names.〔"cunt, n." OED Online. Oxford University Press, December 2014. Web. 5 March 2015.〕 ==Manuscripts== Ten manuscripts are known to attest to the poem in whole or in part (sometimes only one stanza or couplet).〔Joanna Bellis and Venetia Bridges, '“What shalt thou do when thou hast an english to make into Latin?”: The Proverb Collection of Cambridge, St. John’s College, MS F.26', ''Studies in Philology'' 112 (2015), 68-89 (p. 85 n. 51).〕 The most complete include:〔Cf. ''Specimens of Early English'', ed. by Richard Morris and Walter W. Skeat, 4th edn, 2 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1872), II 35-42 (pp. 35, 294).〕 * Cambridge, University Library, Gg.I.1 (a MS in one hand, from the earlier fourteenth century, also including the ''Northern Passion'', apparently produced in Ireland as the language shows influence from Middle Hiberno-English).〔Angus McIntosh, M.L. Samuels, Michael Benskin, and others, ''A Linguistic Atlas of Late Mediaeval English'' ((): Aberdeen University Press, 1986), I 67.〕 * Oxford, Bodleian Library, Digby 86 (a verse miscellany in French and English from Gloucestershire in the last quarter of the thirteenth century, also including lyrics, the Middle English ''Harrowing of Hell'', and ''The Vox and the Wolf'').〔Angus McIntosh, M.L. Samuels, Michael Benskin, and others, ''A Linguistic Atlas of Late Mediaeval English'' ((): Aberdeen University Press, 1986), I 147 (7790 ).〕 * London, British Library, Harley 2253 (containing an exceptionally wide range of texts, from Herefordshire),〔Angus McIntosh, M.L. Samuels, Michael Benskin, and others, ''A Linguistic Atlas of Late Mediaeval English'' ((): Aberdeen University Press, 1986), I 111 (9260 ).〕 ff. 125r-126v. The others are: * Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College 351/568 * Cambridge, Pembroke College, 100 * Cambridge, St. John’s College, 145 * Cambridge, University Library, Additional 4407 (a manuscript probably from West Norfolk, also including ''Havelok the Dane'').〔Angus McIntosh, M.L. Samuels, Michael Benskin, and others, ''A Linguistic Atlas of Late Mediaeval English'' ((): Aberdeen University Press, 1986), I 66.〕 * Durham Cathedral, Dean and Chapter Library, B.I.18 * London, British Library, Harley 3823 * London, British Library, Royal 8.E.xvii 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Proverbs of Hendyng」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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