‘Of Sayne Iohnne þe euangelist’ — nineteen 14-line
stanza
Title(s): ‘Of Sayne Iohnne þe euangelist’
Subjects: John the Evangelist, saint
Versification: —
fourteen-line —
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1.Source: London, British Library Egerton 2257, ff. 101-104
v
First Lines:Of all mankynde þat he made þat maste es of myghte
And of
þe molde merkede and mesured that tyde…
Last Lines:…To þat lyghte he vs lede
þat euer more sall laste.
Amen
Note: Nineteenth-century transcription by Sir Frederic Madden (f.
1).
Attributed Title: Of Sayne Iohn þe euangelist (f.101)
2.Source: Lincoln, Lincoln Cathedral Library 91 [Robert Thornton MS], ff. 231-233
v
First Lines:Of all mankynde þat he made þat maste es of myghte
And of
þe molde merkede and mesured that tyde
Wirchipede be þou
Euaungelist with euerilke a wyghte
Þat he wroghte in this werlde
wonnande so wyde…
Last Lines:…He was redy we rede
To þat lyghte he vs lede
þat
euer more sall laste
Attributed Title: Of Sayne Iohn þe euangelist (f. 231)
Facsimiles: Brewer, Derek Stanley, and A. E. B. Owen.
“Introduction.”
The Thornton Manuscript (Lincoln Cathedral MS. 91).
London: Scolar Press, 1975.
Editions:
Perry, George G.,
ed.
Religious Pieces in Prose and Verse from R. Thornton’s
MS.
EETS
o.s. 26 (1867); repr. 1973: 97-105 (orig. ed); 88-95 (rev. ed.).
Horstmann, Carl.
Altenglische Legenden: Neue Folge.
Heilbronn: Henninger, 1881: 467-71.