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
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Author(s): Thomas Hoccleve
Title(s): Pèlerinage de l’âme
Subjects: Easter; songs
Versification: —
seven-line —
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Manuscript Witnesses:
1.Source: Oxford, Bodleian Library Bodley 770 (SC 2552), f. 95
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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. 129-129
v
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
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. 120-120
v
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. 93
v-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, ff. 100-100
v
First Lines:HOnured be thu Ihu saueoure
þat for mankende were do on the rode…
Last Lines:…Thu art the ground & welle of alle vertue
Honured be thu blisful lord Ihu
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.
10.Source: New York, New York Public Library Spencer 19 [olim Petworth 2], ff. 128-128
v
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)
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.