DIMEV 4778
IMEV 3074
NIMEV 3074
Salue with all obeisance to God in humblesse
Prayer to the Virgin, in which first words of each line are the Latin words of
a prayer to the Virgin (read down the left edges of lines); 5 eight-line
stanzas
Title(s): ‘Salve Regina’
Subjects: Virgin Mary, hymns to; hymns, to Virgin Mary
Versification: —
eight-line —
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Manuscript Witnesses:
1.Source: Oxford, Bodleian Library Rawlinson C.48 (SC 11914), ff. 135-135
v
First Lines:Salue wyth all obaysans to god in humblesse
Regina to regne euermore
in blys…
Last Lines:…Nobis post hoc exilium ostende
To oure eterne grettest Ioy
& plesure
Note: Four stanzas.
Editions: MacCracken, Henry Noble.
“Lydgatiana.”
Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und
Literaturen
131 (1913): 40-63: 44-5.
2.Source: Oxford, Balliol College 354, p. 340
2
First Lines:
Salue wyth all obeysance to God in
humblesse
Regina to regne ever more in blysse…
Last Lines:…Mater of lyffe & eterne creacion
Salue ever
as fayer as we can suffyce
Amen
Note: Five stanzas.
Attributed Title: An holy salue regina In englisshe (p. 340)
Editions:
Flügel, Ewald.
“Liedersammlungen des XVI Jahrhunderts….”
Anglia
26 (1903): 94-285: 172-3.
Dyboski, R.,
ed.
Songs, Carols and Other Miscellaneous Poems from Balliol MS. 354,
Richard Hill’s Commonplace Book.
EETS
e.s. 101 (1908); repr. 1984: 60-1.
Print Witnesses:
1.Source: STC 17030.
Lydgate, John,
Stans puer ad mensam, [Westminster: Printed by William Caxton,
1476?]
2.Source: STC 4851.
Paruus Catho [et] Magnus Catho, [Caxton, 1476] , ff. 36
v-37
First Lines:
[s]Alue with all obeisance to god &
humblesse
Regina to regne euyr more in blysse
Mater to
crist as we byleue expresse…
Last Lines:…Mater of lyf and eterne creacion
Salue euer as
feir as we can suffyse
Note: Huntington R. B. 62364.
Attributed Title: An holy Salue regina in englissh (f. 36v)