Digital Index of Middle English Verse: No. 2067

DIMEV 2067

IMEV 1249

NIMEV 1249

Honoured be Thou Jesu our Saviour

Thomas Hoccleve, Angels’ song on Easter Day, in the English translation of the Pèlerinage de l’âme — five stanzas rhyme royal

Author(s): Thomas Hoccleve

Title(s): Pèlerinage de l’âme

Subjects: Easter; songs

Versification: — seven-line — ababbcc

Manuscript Witnesses:

1.Source: Oxford, Bodleian Library Bodley 770 (SC 2552), f. 95ra-95rb

First Lines:

Honourid be þou ihesu our saviour
þat for mankinde were don on rode…

Last Lines:

…þat an þe wel & ground of all vertu
Honourid be þou blisful lord ihesu

Attributed Title: þe song of angele on ester day (f. 95)

2.Source: Oxford, Corpus Christi College 237, ff. 129-129v

First Lines:

Honowryd be þowe Ihesu owre saueowre
That for mankynd wer doon vppon þe roode…

Last Lines:

…That art þe well & grounde of all vertue
Honowred be þowe blessid lord Ihesu

3.Source: Oxford, University College 181, f. 144

4.Source: Cambridge UK, Gonville & Caius College 124/61, pp. 240-241

First Lines:

honowred be þow Jhesu sauiour
þat for mankynde were don opon þe rode…

Last Lines:

…þat art þe welle & grownde of alle vertu
honowred be þow blysful lord Jhesu

Attributed Title: tho aungeles songen vp on astir daye (p. 240)

5.Source: Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Library Kk.1.7, ff. 120-120v

First Lines:

Honourid be þou Jhesu saueour
That for mankynde wer don vp on þe roode…

Last Lines:

…That art þe welle & ground of al uertu
honouryd be þou blysful lord Jhesu

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

6.Source: London, British Library Addit. 34193, ff. 93v-94

First Lines:

Honoure be þou ihesu
oure saueoure þat for man kinde were done on þe rode…

Last Lines:

…þou arte þe welle and grounde of all vertu
honourede be þou blessede lorde ihesu

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: 419.

8.Source: London, British Library Egerton 615, f. 100

Editions:

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

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. 128-128v

First Lines:

Honoured be thow Ihesu saueour
That for mankynde were don on the rode…

Last Lines:

…That art the grounde and welle of all vertu
honoured be thow blesful lord Ihesu

Attributed Title: The aungeles song vpon ester day (f. 128)

11.Source: Melbourne, State Library of Victoria *096/G94, f. 205v

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: 78-9.