Digital Index of Middle English Verse: No. 2065

DIMEV 2065

IMEV 1247

NIMEV 1247

Honoured be Thou blissful Lord on high

Thomas Hoccleve, ‘Cantus peregrinorum’, in the English translation of the Pèlerinage de l’âme — five stanzas rhyme royal

Author(s): Thomas Hoccleve

Title(s): Pèlerinage de l’âme; ‘Cantus peregrinorum’

Subjects: songs; pilgrims/pilgrimage

Versification: — seven-line — ababbcc

Manuscript Witnesses:

1.Source: Oxford, Bodleian Library Bodley 770 (SC 2552), ff. 24ra-24va

Transcription:

[H]onourid be þou blisful lord an hyȝ
þat of þe blissid maiden were I bore…

2.Source: Oxford, Corpus Christi College 237, ff. 47v-48

Transcription:

Honoured be þu blisseful lorde an hygh
That of þe blessed maydyn were I bore…

3.Source: Oxford, University College 181, f. 40v

4.Source: Cambridge UK, Gonville & Caius College 124/61, pp. 38-39

First Lines:

hOnoured be þu blisful lord on hye
þat of þe blisful mayden were bore…

Last Lines:

…To the we com as fyn off oure Laboure
Wham wilnith eueri trew trauayloure

Attributed Title: And þis was the noble song þat I herd hem syng (p. 38)

5.Source: Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Library Kk.1.7, ff. 34-34v

First Lines:

Honoured be þou blysful lord on hy
Þat of þe blisful mayde were bore…

Last Lines:

…To þe come3 as fyn of our labour
And so schal eny trewe traueylour

Attributed Title: her endith þe drem of þe pilgrimage of þe soule (f. 124v)

6.Source: London, British Library Addit. 34193, f. 31

First Lines:

Honourede be þou blistefull lorde and hye
þou blisse de maide were ybore…

Last Lines:

…To þe we come os ende of oure labur
Whom desireth euer trwe traueloure

7.Source: London, British Library Addit. 37049, ff. 70v-71

Editions:

Doty, Brant Lee, ed. “An Edition of British Museum MS Additional 37049: a Religious Miscellany.” Diss. Michigan State, 1969: 392.

8.Source: London, British Library Egerton 615, ff. 29-29v

First Lines:

Honowred be thu blissed lord on hye
That of the blisful mayde were I bore…

Last Lines:

…To the we come as fyne of oure laboure
Whom willeth eueri trewe trauayloure

Editions:

Furnivall, Frederick James, ed. “Hoccleve’s Works: The Regement of Princes and fourteen minor poems.” EETS e.s. 72 (1897); repr. 1988: xxxii-xxxiii.

9.Source: Hatfield House, Marquess of Salisbury C.P. 270, unfoliated

10.Source: New York, New York Public Library Spencer 19 [olim Petworth 2], ff. 38-38v

First Lines:

Honored be þou blisful lorde an hy
That of the blisful mayde were ybore…

Last Lines:

…To the we come as fyn of oure labour
Whom willeth euery trewe trauaylour

Attributed Title: Cantus peregrimorum (f. 38)

11.Source: Melbourne, State Library of Victoria *096/G94, f. 125

Print Witnesses:

1.Source: STC 6473. Guillaume de Deguileville, Pylgremage of the Sowle, Caxton, 1483

Editions:

Cust, Katherine Isabella, ed. The booke of the pylgremage of the Sowle. London: Pickering, 1859; repr. New York: AMS, 1973: 44 (2 st. only).