Digital Index of Middle English Verse: No. 4342

DIMEV 4342

IMEV 2736.2

NIMEV 2736.2

Pallas Evander his son lieth here

Epitaph of the giant Pallas — three monorhyming lines in Trevisa’s translation of Higden’s Polychronicon (Book 1, chap. 24)

Author(s): John Trevisa; Ranulph Higden

Title(s): Polychronicon

Subjects: epitaphs; Pallas the giant

Versification: — three-line — aaa

Bibliographic Ghosts: Manchester, Chetham’s Library 11379 [Mun. A.6.90]: this copy of Trevisa is missing folios between 45 and 46 where text jumps from I.19 to I.31; i.e. no Book I, Chapter 24; Aberdeen, Aberdeen University Library 21: not found in this MS; Glasgow, Glasgow University Library Hunterian 83 (T.3.21): this is Brut Chronicle, not Trevisa; New York, Pierpont Morgan Library M875 [olim Helmingham Hall]: Only Trevisa’s De Proprietatibus here, not Polychronicon.

Manuscript Witnesses:

1.Source: Cambridge UK, Corpus Christi College 354, f. 2v1

Transcription:

Pallas Euander sonne lieth here
hym Turnus the knight with his spere
slough in his maner

Note: Written as prose.

Facsimiles:

Digital Facsimile of Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 354. https://parker.stanford.edu/parker/catalog/vr711fc2241.

2.Source: Cambridge UK, St John’s College H.1 (204), f. 49ra

Transcription:

pallas Euander his sone lieþ here
hym turnus þe knyȝt wiþ his spere
slowe in his manere

Editions:

Babington, Churchill, and Joseph Rawson Lumby, eds. Polychronicon Ranulphi Higden Monachi Cestrensis. 9 vols. Rolls Series 41 (1865-66; repr. Kraus, 1964): 1.125.

Mätzner, Edouard Adolf Ferdinand. Altenglische Sprachproben, I: Poesie. Berlin: Wiedmann, 1867: 2.363.

3.Source: London, British Library Addit. 24194, f. 51vb

Transcription:

Pallas Euander his sone lieþ here
hym turnus þe knyȝt wiþ his spere
in his manere

Note: Written as prose.

4.Source: London, British Library Cotton Tiberius D.VII, Part 1, Part I, f. 21

Transcription:

Pallas Euander hys sone lyþ here
hym turnus þe knyȝt with hys spere
Slouȝ yn hys manere

Note: Written as prose.

5.Source: London, British Library Harley 1900, f. 61v

Transcription:

Pallas Euanders sone liþe here
hym turnus þe knyȝt wiþ his spere
slowe in his maner

Note: Written as prose.

6.Source: London, British Library Stowe 65, f. 16vb

Transcription:

Pallas Euandres sone lyeth here
Hym Turnus the knyght with his spere
slowhe in his maner

Note: Written as prose. Folio number reflects the most recent foliation.

7.Source: Glasgow, Glasgow University Library Hunterian 83 (T.3.21)

8.Source: Tokyo, Senshu University Senshu University MS 1 [olim Schøyen 194; post Penrose 12], f. 27va

Transcription:

pallas Euander his sone lieþ here
him turnus þe kniȝt wiþ his spere
slow in his manere

Note: Written as prose.

9.Source: San Marino, CA, Henry Huntington Library HM 28561 [olim Burghley], f. 59rb

Transcription:

Pallas Euanders sone liþ here
him turnus þe knyȝt wiþ his spere
slowe in his maner

Note: Written as prose.

Print Witnesses:

1.Source: STC 13440a. Higden, Ranulphus (trans. John Trevisa), Discripcion of Britayne & also [of] Irlonde, Caxton, 1480

2.Source: STC 13440b. Higden, Ranulphus (trans. John Trevisa), Discripcion of Britayne & also [of] Irlonde, de Worde, 1498

3.Source: STC 13438. Higden, Ranulphus (trans. John Trevisa), Polychronicon, Caxton, [1482]

4.Source: STC 13439. Higden, Ranulphus (trans. John Trevisa), Polychronicon, de Worde, 1495

5.Source: STC 13440. Higden, Ranulphus (trans. John Trevisa), Polychronicon, P. Treveris for J. Reynes, 1527