Digital Index of Middle English Verse: No. 1486

DIMEV 1486

IMEV 890

NIMEV 890

Gabriel that angel bright

Annunciation carol — five quatrains (aaab) including refrain, ‘Regina celi letare,’ plus burden (bb): Now synge we syng we ‘Regina celi letare’

Note: Ringler Jr. (1992)

XRingler Jr., William A. Bibliography and Index of English Verse in Manuscript 1501-1558. London: Mansell, 1992; prepared and completed by Michael Rudick and Susan J. Ringler

, TM 456.

Subjects: carols, Annunciation; Virgin Mary, Annunciation to

Versification: — four-line, two-line — aaab, aa

Macaronic: Latin

Manuscript Witnesses:

1.Source: Oxford, Bodleian Library Eng. poet. e.1 (SC 29734), f. 26

First Lines:

Gabriell þat angell bryȝt
Bryȝter þan þe sonne is lyȝt …

Last Lines:

…To saue þe solves þat war forlost
Letare

Editions:

Greene, Richard Leighton. The Early English Carols. Oxford: Clarendon, 1935; 2nd ed., rev., Oxford: Clarendon, 1977: 169-70; 1977, 150.

Wright, Thomas, ed. Songs and Carols from a manuscript…of the Fifteenth Century. Percy Society 23. London: Richards, 1847: 33-4.

2.Source: Oxford, Balliol College 354, p. 4642

First Lines:

Gabryell that angell bryght
Bryghtter than the son lyght…

Last Lines:

…hou kepe & save vs all from tene
Regina celi letare
Explicit

Note: 4 stanzas.

Facsimiles:

Digital Facsimile of Oxford, Balliol MS 354. http://image.ox.ac.uk/show?collection=balliol&manuscript=ms354.

Editions:

Greene, Richard Leighton. The Early English Carols. Oxford: Clarendon, 1935; 2nd ed., rev., Oxford: Clarendon, 1977: 169-70; 1977, 150.

Flügel, Ewald. “Englische Weihnachtslieder aus einter Handschrift des Balliol College zu Oxford.” Forschungen zur deutschen Philologie. Festgabe für Rudolf Hildebrands. Leipzig: Deit, 1894: 52-84: 65.

Flügel, Ewald. “Liedersammlungen des XVI Jahrhunderts….” Anglia 26 (1903): 94-285: 236.

Dyboski, R., ed. Songs, Carols and Other Miscellaneous Poems from Balliol MS. 354, Richard Hill’s Commonplace Book. EETS e.s. 101 (1908); repr. 1984: 10.

Rickert, Edith, ed. Ancient English Christmas Carols. London: Chatto & Windus, 1910: 29.

Segar, Mary Gertrude, ed. A Mediaeval Anthology. London, NY: Longmans, Green, 1915: 84.

priven: verb To deprive (sb.) of (sth.), deny (sb. sth.); ppl. prived, bereaved, bereft of, deprived of; without; (b) ~ of (from), to deprive (sb. of sth.), deny (sth. to sb.), exclude (sb. from sth.); prived of (from), deprived of (sth.), bereft of; lacking, without; ben of god priving, be a robber of goods; (c) to depose (sb.), dismiss; ~ of (from), deprive (sb.) of (power, kingdom, etc.), remove or dismiss (sb.) from (office or position); (d) to take (sth.) away; prevent (sth.), deny, oppose; weaken (the body); -- also without obj. MED