DIMEV 2557
IMEV 1515
NIMEV 1515
In old Romance and stories as I read
Generydes (Version B) — 6995 lines in rhyme royal
stanzas
Title(s): Generydes
Subjects: romances
Versification: —
seven-line —
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Manuscript Witnesses:
1.Source: Cambridge UK, Emmanuel College 405, ff. 1-9
v
First Lines:…When he her saw he drew hym [ ]
her commyng theder liked hym
[ ]yll
Myrable than Anon hym ass[ ]d…
Last Lines:…In paradyse where all his [ ] dwell
Note: Fragments of 9 folios, written on both sides, damaged.
Editions: Stubbings, Frank.
“A New Manuscript of Generydes.”
Cambridge Bibliographical Society Transactions
10 (1993): 317-40: 317-40.
2.Source: Cambridge UK, Trinity College O.5.2 (1283), ff. 1
ra-37
vb
First Lines:[In] olde Romans and storys as I rede
Of Jude somtyme ther was a
nobyll kyng…
Last Lines:…he graunt vs a place perpetuall
In paradise where all his
seyntes duell
Note: One leaf missing.
Attributed Title: Explicit the boke of Senerides and of his faire Lady Clarionas (f.
37v)
Editions: Wright, William Aldis,
ed.
Generydes, a romance.
EETS
o.s. 55 (1873), 70 (1878); repr. as one, 1987.