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The ''South English Legendary'' is a Middle English (13th to 14th century) hagiographic work, best preserved in MS Harley 2277 and CCCC 145, which contain 92 narrative lives, extremely varied in length, usually including one of two prologues and often including a life of Christ and/or temporal items. The collection also includes lives of "anti-saints" Judas and Pilate. It is written in verse with a line of fourteen syllables and seven stresses but with much irregularity and deviation, the same metre as the Chronicle attributed to Robert of Gloucester, with certain lives appearing in both, suggesting complex forms of textual entanglement. The South English Legendary grew as it was copied, and later manuscripts often add in new saints' lives. ==Manuscripts== Over sixty manuscripts containing all or part of the South English Legendary survive. Dialect and affiliations are the main evidence for the origin of a given manuscript, because for many of these manuscripts the provenance is lacking. The Bodleian Library houses the oldest manuscript (MS Laud Misc. 108), which is estimated to have been written in 1265, although its editor (Horstmann) dates it 1280-90. It is likely that the manuscript elements were being worked on for many years in advance of its compilation. The major manuscripts containing versions of the Legendary are: * Oxford, Bodleian Library, Laud Misc. 108〔'(Oxford, Bodleian Library, Laud Misc. 108 )', Manuscripts of the West Midlands. University of Birmingham. (Accessed 20 July 2014.)〕 * London, British Library, Harley 2277〔'(London, British Library, Harley 2277 )', British Library. (Accessed 20 July 2014.)〕 * Oxford, Bodleian Library, Ashmole 43〔'(Oxford, Bodleian Library, Ashmole 43 )', Manuscripts of the West Midlands. University of Birmingham. (Accessed 20 July 2014.)〕 * London, British Library, Egerton 1993〔'(London, British Library, Egerton 1993 )', Manuscripts of the West Midlands. University of Birmingham. (Accessed 20 July 2014.)〕 * Cambridge, Magdalene College, Pepys 2344〔'(Cambridge, Magdalene College, Pepys 2344 )', Manuscripts of the West Midlands. University of Birmingham. (Accessed 20 July 2014.)〕 * London, British Library, Stowe 949〔'(London, British Library, Stowe 949 )', Manuscripts of the West Midlands. University of Birmingham. (Accessed 20 July 2014.)〕 * Oxford, Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. a.1 (Vernon MS)〔'(Oxford, Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. a.1 )', Manuscripts of the West Midlands. University of Birmingham. (Accessed 20 July 2014.)〕 * London, Lambeth Palace Library, Lambeth 223 * Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley 779〔'(Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley 779 )', Digital Index of Middle English Verse, Virginia Tech. (Accessed 20 July 2014.)〕 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「South English Legendary」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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