DIMEV 2060
IMEV 1242
NIMEV 1242
Honoured be this holy feast day
Thomas Hoccleve, Angels’ Song on Epiphany, in the English translation of
the Pèlerinage de l’âme — four stanzas rhyme
royal
Author(s): Thomas Hoccleve
Versification: —
seven-line —
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Manuscript Witnesses:
1.Source: Oxford, Bodleian Library Bodley 770 (SC 2552), ff. 94
rb-94
va
First Lines:Worschepid be þis holy fest day
In honour of þe suet well
of lyf…
Last Lines:…In honour of this gret solempnyte
Worschippid be the holy
trynyte
Attributed Title: Song of þe assumpcion day of our lady (f. 94)
2.Source: Oxford, Corpus Christi College 237, ff. 128-128
v
First Lines:Worschipyd be þis holy fest day
In honowre of þe swette
well of lyfe…
Last Lines:…In honowre of þis highe solempnyte
worschippid be þe
holy trenyte
4.Source: Cambridge UK, Gonville & Caius College 124/61, p. 238
First Lines:honowred be þis holy feste day
In worschip of þe swete
welle of lyf…
Last Lines:…In honour of þis hye solempnyte
honowred be þe holy
trynyte
Attributed Title: the aungeles song in þe feste of þe Epyphanie (p. 238)
5.Source: Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Library Kk.1.7, ff. 119-119
v
First Lines:Honourid be þis holy feste day
In worchep of þe swote
welle of lyff…
Last Lines:…In honour of þis hye solempnyte
Honourid be þe holy
trinyte
Attributed Title: her endith þe drem of þe pilgrimage of þe soule (f.
124v)
6.Source: London, British Library Addit. 34193, f. 93
First Lines:Worschepede be þis holy feste day
In honoure of þe swete
welle of life…
Last Lines:…In honoure of þis hy solempnte
worschepede be þe
trinite
Note: Written as prose.
7.Source: London, British Library Addit. 37049, f. 76
Editions: Doty, Brant Lee,
ed.
“An Edition of British Museum MS Additional 37049: a Religious
Miscellany.”
Diss. Michigan State, 1969: 421-2.
8.Source: London, British Library Egerton 615, ff. 99-99
v
First Lines:HOnured be this blissed holy feste day
In worshippe of the sweet welle of lisse…
Last Lines:…In honure of this solennite
Honured be the blissed Trinite
Editions: Furnivall, Frederick James,
ed.
“Hoccleve’s Works: The Regement of Princes and fourteen minor
poems.”
EETS
e.s. 72 (1897); repr. 1988: xlvii-xlviii.
10.Source: New York, New York Public Library Spencer 19 [olim Petworth 2], ff. 127-127
v
First Lines:Honoured be this holy feste day
In worshipe of the swete welle of
lyf…
Last Lines:…In honour of this solempnite
Honoured be the holy
trynite
Attributed Title: The aungeles songe in the feste of the Epyphanye of oure lord (f.
127)
Print Witnesses:
1.Source: STC 6473.
Guillaume de Deguileville,
Pylgremage of the Sowle, Caxton, 1483