DIMEV 709
IMEV 430.5
NIMEV 430.5
At my beginning Christ me speed
A tag to be learned as a child, or at beginning of a book — one
couplet
Note: Ringler Jr. (1992)
XRingler Jr., William A.
Bibliography and Index of English Verse in Manuscript
1501-1558.
London: Mansell, 1992; prepared and completed by
Michael
Rudick
and
Susan J.
Ringler
, TM 220; same as opening of
708 and
712; see also
2546.
Subjects: instruction, father to son; children, instructions for behaviour of; scribes
Versification: —
two-line —
aa
Bibliographic Ghosts: Dublin, Trinity College, Dublin 174: only the Latin version, ‘Domine sancte pater
omnipotens sempiterne deus qui nos ad principium huius diei pervenire fecisti
tua nos’.
Manuscript Witnesses:
5.Source: London, British Library Royal 12 E.XVI, f. 186
v
Transcription:In mine begininge god be my good sped
In grace and vertue to
procede
Note: Copied twice as pen trials. The version quoted appears upside down at
the foot of the folio and the following variant appears at the head: ‘In
the beginnyng god bi my sped / In…and vertu to prosed
and’.
6.Source: Durham, Durham University Library Cosin V.iii.9, f. 17
v
Transcription:In the begynnyng god my speade
wythe ggrace & vertu
Note: Added to lower margin by a fifteenth-century hand.
Facsimiles: Burrow, John, and A. I. Doyle, eds.
Thomas Hoccleve: A Facsimile of the Autograph Verse
Manuscripts.
EETS
s.s. 19 (2002).
Editions: Furnivall, Frederick James,
ed.
Hoccleve’s Works: The Minor Poems. vol. 1.
EETS
e.s. 61 (1892); repr. with
Gollancz (1925)
XGollancz, Israel.
Hoccleve’s Works: The Minor Poems. vol. 2. EETS
e.s. 73 (1925); repr. with 61, 1970
73; rev. J.
Mitchell and A. Ian Doyle, 1970: 126.
7.Source: Lincoln, Lincoln Cathedral Library 189, f. 5
v
Transcription:In my begeninge god be my sped
in grace and vertue to
proced
Note: Added (twice) to blank space after table of contents by a
fifteenth-century hand.
10.Source: New York, Pierpont Morgan Library B5, f. 60
v
Transcription:At my beginyng god me spede
In grace and vertu to procede
Note: Marginal note, here with additional prose note; usually couplet
opening.
11.Source: San Marino, CA, Henry Huntington Library HM 125 [olim Groves], f. 95
v
Transcription:In my begynynge god be my good spede
In grace & vertue all waye to
prosed[e]
Note: Added to left margin, bottom to top, by a hand of the sixteenth century;
signed ‘Chrystefer Byrkheade’ in right margin.
Editions: Dutschke, C. W.
Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Huntington
Library.
2 vols. San Marino, CA: Huntington Library, 1989: 1.157.
13.Source: Dublin, Trinity College, Dublin 340, f. 166
Transcription:In my be gynnynge god be w[ ]
In grace and werte to procede
Note: Scribble in originally blank column added by a fifteenth-cnetury
hand.