DIMEV 362
IMEV 201
NIMEV 201
All souls day on earth right is to hold high
All Souls’ Day in the South English Legendary — in
couplets
Note: For other MSS see
4258; for the
version in the ‘expanded’
Northern Homily Cycle see
5690.
Title(s):
South English Legendary
Subjects: All Souls’ Day
Versification: —
two-line —
aa
Manuscript Witnesses:
1.Source: Oxford, Bodleian Library Ashmole 43 (SC 6924), ff. 166
v-169
v
First Lines:Alle soulen dai anerþe riȝt is to holde heie
Vor alle we
sculle habbe neode þerto & alle schulle deie…
Last Lines:…Nou ihesus þat ous dere boȝte þei we do ofte
amys
Of oure soule haue mercy & bringe ous to heuene blis
2.Source: Oxford, Bodleian Library Bodley 779 (SC 2567), ff. 71-74
v
First Lines:Alle soulen day an erþe ryȝt is to holden hyȝe
ffor
alle we cholle habbe ned þer to & alle we cholleþ
deye…
Last Lines:…& lete vs here oure sinnes bete as we hennes wende
&
come to þat ilke ioye þat euer is wit outen ende
Attributed Title: Alle soulen day (f. 71)
3.Source: Oxford, Bodleian Library Laud misc. 108 (SC 1486), ff. 175-179
v
First Lines:Alle Soulene day on erþe riȝht is to holde heiȝe
for
alle we schullen habben neode þarto for alle we schullen
deiȝe…
Last Lines:…And led us to oure riȝhte heritage for þou
bouȝhtest us þar to
Ne leos nouȝht þat þou deore
bouȝhtest þei we sumdel mis do
Editions: Horstmann, Carl,
ed.
The Early South-English Legendary.
EETS
o.s. 87 (1887; repr. 1987): 420-31.
4.Source: Oxford, Bodleian Library Laud misc. 463 (SC 1596), ff. 99
va-102
rb
First Lines:Alle soulen day on eorþe right is to holden heye
for all we
shulle haue neode þerto for all we shole dye…
Last Lines:…To oure oune eritage þat þou vs boughtest to
Lese
not þat þou deore boughtest þei wee mychel mysdo
Note: Two columns per page, one full-line, the other half-line.
5.Source: Oxford, Bodleian Library Rawlinson poet. 225 (SC 14716), ff. 90-93; 89
First Lines:Alle soulyn day on erthe is to ben halden heye
ffor we schuln alle
haue nede whan we alle schal dye…
Last Lines:…þe soules þat abyden oter rychesse te helpe is al be
hynde
Hir sekenees þat seruyn hen so a wykked wey scul þei
fynde
Attributed Title: In die animarum (f. 90)
8.Source: Cambridge UK, Magdalene College Pepys 2344, pp. 466-474
First Lines:Alle Soulen day on eorþe riȝt is to holde heye
ffor alle
we schulleþ nabbe neode þer to ffor alle we schulleþ
deye…
Last Lines:…To oure owe heritage þat þou vs bouȝtest to
Ne
leos nouȝt þat þou bouȝtest þey we somdel mys
do
Attributed Title: Dies animarum (RT); Quinque purgatoria (RT); Miraculum
Thebaldi (RT)
9.Source: Cambridge UK, Trinity College R.3.25 (605), ff. 256-260
First Lines:Alle saulen day in erþe ryȝt ys to holden heye
for al we
schulleþ habbe nede þer to & al we schulleþ
deye…
Last Lines:…To oure owen heritage þat þu ous boȝtest to
Ne
les vus niȝt þat þu dere boȝtest þey we somdel
mysdo
Attributed Title: Alle Saulen (RT, 256v-260)
13.Source: London, British Library Harley 2277, f. 144
Editions: D’Evelyn, Charlotte, and A. J. Mill, eds.
The South English Legendary: Corpus Christi College Cambridge MS. 145
and British Museum MS. Harley 2277, with variants from Bodley MS. Ashmole 43 and
British Museum MS. Cotton Julius D.ix.
EETS
o.s. 235 (1959), 236 (1956); repr. 1967: 463.
14.Source: London, British Library Stowe 949, ff. 37
v-42
First Lines:[a]lle soulen day an erþe riht is to holden heye
ffor alle we schullen habbe neode þerto alle we schollen beyȝe…
Last Lines:…To our oune heritage þat þou vs bouhtest to
Ne lese nout þat þou dere abouhtest þou we somdel mys do