Date | Genre | Wordcount | Author | Filename | Edition | Notes |
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c980 | vers assonant (Linskill 1937:146) | 1,443 | 0980-leger-v-penn | Linskill, Joseph, ed. 1937. Saint Léger. Étude de la langue du manuscrit de Clermont-Ferrand, suivie d'une édition critique du texte avec commentaire et glossaire. Paris: Droz. | ||
middle of 1000s | vers assonant (by inspection) | 4,996 | 10xx-alexis-v-penn | Storey, Christopher, ed. 1968. La vie de Saint Alexis. Geneva: Droz. | ||
c1100 | vers assonant (by inspection) | 29,818 | 1100-roland-v | Moignet, Gérard, ed. 1972 (3rd revised and corrected edition). La chanson de Roland. Paris: Bordas. | Oxford ms., written in Anglo-Norman in the second quarter of the 12th century. The text it is based on is thought to be dated to the end of 11th century, after 1086. | |
1106-1121 (ARTFL) | rhyme | 11,018 | Benedeit | 1120-brendan-r | Short, Ian and Brian Merrilees, eds. 1979. The Anglo-Norman voyage of St Brendan. Manchester: Manchester University Press. | Octosyllabic rhyming couplets (Merrilees 1979:8).
Meyer 1906:341 dates the work to "probablement peu après 1121, date du mariage de cette reine" (Aélis, wife of Henry I of England). Meyer, Paul. 1906. Légendes hagiographiques en français. Histoire littéraire de la France. Vol. 33. 328-458. Paris: Imprimerie nationale. |
1150 (C. Marchello-Nizia), 1170 (Anne de Kok), 1175 (ARTFL) | prose | 44,199 | Anonymous | 1150-quatreLivre-p-penn | Curtius, Ernst Robert, ed. 1911. Li quatre livre des reis. Gesellschaft für romanische Literatur, no. 9. Dresden, Halle: Max Niemeyer. | Electronic edition prepared by Christiane Marchello-Nizia.
Anglo-Norman. |
1160-1170 (ARTFL) | rhyme | 33,489 | Marie de France | 116x-marie-de-france-r | Rychner, Jean, ed. 1973. Les lais de Marie de France. Paris: Champion. | Based mainly on a ms. created by the mid-13th century in England, British Museum, Harley 978, fol. 139-181 of the present edition. |
c1170, 1177-1180 (ARTFL) | rhyme | 42,423 | Chrétien de Troyes | 1170-yvain-r | Roques, Mario, ed. 1960. Les romans de Chrétien de Troyes, édités d'après la copie de Guiot (Bibl. nat. fr. 794). Paris: Champion. | Bibl. nat. fr. 794. |
c1190 | rhyme | 20,789 | Boron, Robert de | 1190-boron-r-penn | Nitze, William A., ed. 1927. Le roman de l'estoire dou Graal. Paris: Honoré Champion. | |
prose | 34,560 | Clari, Robert de | 1205-clari-p | Lauer, Philippe, ed. 1924. La conquête de Constantinople. Paris: Champion. | ||
c1210 (Cerquiglini 1981:10) | prose | 17,439 | Boron, Robert de | 1210-boron-p-penn | Cerquiglini, Bernard, ed. 1981. Le roman du Graal: manuscrit de Modè - Pseudo-Robert de Boron. Paris: Union Générale d'Édition. | Texte établi et présenté par Bernard Cerquiglini. Edition based on ms. E.39, Biblioteca Estense de Modena. |
c1212 (Fisher 1917:3) | rhyme | 9,946 | Beauvais, Pierre de. | 1212-eustace-fisher-r-penn | Fisher, John Roberts, ed. 1917. La vie de Saint Eustache par Pierre Beauvais. Doctoral dissertation, Columbia University. | Based on Paris, Bibl. nat., fr 13502, fol. 76 and London,
B.M. Egerton 745, fol. 1, dated to beginning of 1200s (Meyer 1906:348).
The date of composition is given as "somewhere near 1212 and not later
than 1217" (Fisher 1917:3). For more information about mss., see
Introduction and Meyer 1906:348. The parsed text reflects the Errata on
p. 69.
See also: Fisher, John Robert. 1917. La vie de saint Eustache par Pierre de Beauvais. The Romanic Review 8, 1-67. A review is available: Dyggve, H. Petersen, 1928. Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 19, 111-119. |
c1225 (ARTFL) | prose | 36,909 | Anonymous | 1225-queste-p | Marchello-Nizia, Christiane, ed.
Electronic edition.
Based on Pauphilet, Albert, ed. 1923. La Queste del Saint Graal. Paris: Champion. | Ms. Lyon, Bibliothèque municipale, Palais des arts 77 (dated 1200-1299) and ms. BNF, n.a.fr. 1119 (dated 1220-1320). |
first half of 1200s (Taylor 1969:241) | prose | 4,690 | Anonymous | 122x-agnes-p-penn | Taylor, Robert, ed. 1969. Sermon anonyme sur sainte Agnès, texte du XIIIe siècle. Travaux de linguistique et de littérature de l'Université de Strasbourg 7:241-253. | ms. 5 du Musée Dobrée à Nantes,
fol. 223-229 (Taylor 1969:241).
Based on the third chapter of a Latin life of Agnes (Gesta
sanctae Agnetis) and 3 Kings 1, 1-5. Independent of other
translations of the Gesta into French (Taylor 1969:242).
For information about mss., see editions. |
c122x | prose, vers assonant | 10,203 | 122x-aucassin-p, 122x-aucassin-v | Roques, Mario, ed. 1936. Aucassin et Nicolette: Chantefable du XIIIe siècle. Paris: Champion. | For ease of analysis, this file is split up into the parts that are prose and verse. | |
early to middle 1200's | rhyme | 11,884 | 122x-eustace-petersen-r-penn | Petersen, Holger, ed. 1928. La vie de Saint Eustache. Poème français du XIIIe siècle. Paris: Honoré Champion. | Based on Madrid, Bibl. nat. ms. 9446 (formerly F 149) and Paris,
Bibl. Sainte-Genevieve ms. 792, fol. 111, dated to beginning of 1200s
(Meyer 1906:348), or to middle of 1200s (ms. 9446) and second half of
1200s (ms. 792) (Petersen 1928:iii).
For more information about mss., see Introduction and Meyer 1906:348. Meyer, Paul. 1906. Légendes hagiographiques en français. Histoire littéraire de la France. Vol. 33. 328-458. Paris: Imprimerie nationale. | |
c122x | prose | 26,577 | 122x-pseudoTurpin-p-mcvf, 122x-pseudoTurpin-p-penn | Auracher, Theodor, ed. 1877. Der sogenannte poitevinische Pseudo-Turpin. Nach den Handschriften mitgetheilt. Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie 1:259-336. | Translated from Latin c1200. Original translation lost,
but recopied three times about 50 years later. (C. Meredith-Jones, The
chronicle of Turpin in Saintonge. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2848398)
There is a printed edition 1527, not identical to the earlier manuscripts. | |
after 1250 | prose | 7,434 | 125x-eustace-murray-p-penn | Murray, Jessie, ed. 1929. La vie de Saint Eustace. Version en prose française du XIIIe siècle. Paris: Honoré Champion. | Based on B.N. fr. 2464, dated "dès le milieu du
XIIIe siècle environ" (Meyer 1906:382).
For more information about mss., see Murray's introduction and Petersen 1932. Our version reflects corrections according to Petersen 1932:32-34. Meyer, Paul. 1906. Légendes hagiographiques en français. Histoire littéraire de la France. Vol. 33. 328-458. Paris: Imprimerie nationale. Petersen, Holger Dyggve. 1932. Notes critiques sur la version en prose française de la Vie de saint Eustache et sur son modèle latin. (Édition de miss J. Murray.) Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 33:26-34. | |
1279 | prose | 27,945 | Frère Laurent | 1279-somme-royal-p-penn | Tysor, Ann Brooks, ed.
1949.
Somme des vices et des vertus.
M.A. thesis, University of North Carolina.
1-85.
|
Tysor's edition comprises the first part of the Somme. The
second part is published in Allen 1951 (bibliographic details below).
Both editions are based on "British Museum - Royal 19cII (photostatic
copy, no. 306 of MLA Rotograph collection, Library of Congress,
Washington, D.C.)" (Tysor 1949:viii; Allen 1951:v).
Allen, Edward Herbert, ed. 1951. Somme des vices et des vertus: Part II. M.A. thesis, University of North Carolina. See also Brayer, Édith and Anne-Françoise Leurquin-Labie, eds. 2008. La Somme Le Roi par Frère Laurent. Paris: Société des anciens texts français. (Originally Brayer's 1940 Thèse d'École des chartes.) An important variant ms. is British Museum, Cotton Cleopatra AV, Egerton, 945, Add., 24125, 28162 (Tysor 1949:viii), which served as the basis for the Ayenbite of Inwyt, a translation into Middle English. |
c127x | prose | 52,350 | 127x-cassidorus-p-penn | Palermo, Joseph, ed. 1964. Le roman de Cassidorus. Paris: Editions Picard. | ||
1309 | prose | 76,806 | Joinville, Jean de | 1309-joinville-p | Wailly, Natalis de. 1868. Histoire de Saint Louis. Paris: Renouard. | See also: Monfrin, J., ed. 1996. Mémoires ou vie de saint Louis. Paris: Garnier Flammarion. |
133x | prose | 53,461 | 133x-perceforest-p-penn | Taylor, Jane H.M., ed. 1979. Le roman de Perceforest. Première partie. Geneva: Droz. | pp. 61-224 | |
prose | 221,129 | Froissart, Jean | 1373-froissart-p | Diller, George T., ed. 1972. Chroniques. Dernière rédaction du premier livre. Geneva: Droz. | Based on ms. de Rome Reg. lat. 869, dated c1405. | |
137x | rhyme | 53,287 | Machaut, Guillaume de | 137x-prise-r | Mas Latrie, M. L. de, ed. 1877. La prise d'Alexandrie, ou Chronique du roi Pierre Ier de Lusignan. Société de l'Orient Latin. Geneva: Fick. | See edition. |
c1450 | prose | 34,926 | Anonymous | 1450-xv-joies-p | Rychner, Jean, ed. 1963. Les XV joyes du mariage. Geneva: Droz. | Based on Rouen, Bibl. munic. no 1052, dated 1464.
The text postdates 1382 since it makes reference to the Battle of Roosebeke. It is cited in the Cent nouvelles nouvelles and so must predate the latter work (Wiki). |
between 1456 and 1467 | prose | 154,242 | Anonymous | 145x-cnna-p | Sweetser, Franklin P., ed. 1966. Les cent nouvelles nouvelles. Textes littéraires français 127. Geneva: Droz. | University of Glasgow, Glasgow ms.
Cites the Quinze joies du mariage and so must postdate that work. |
1498 | prose | 44,626 | Commynes, Philippe de | 1498-commynes-p | Calmette, Joseph, ed. 1964. Philippe de Commynes. Mémoires. Tome Ier (1464-1474). Deuxième tirage. Paris: Les Belles Lettres. | See edition, p. 0. |
1523 | prose | 34,784 | D'Etaples, Jacques Lefèvre. | 1523-new-testament-p-penn | Le nouveau testament. Fac-simile de la première édition Simon de Colines, 1523. Reprinted 1970. Paris-La Haye: Editions Mouton & Co. | Bodleian Library Pressmark 8o Z. 454 Th.
First translation of the New Testament into French based on the Vulgate version with help from Greek texts. |
1527 | prose | 57,961 | "Le loyal serviteur" | 1527-bayart-p-penn | Anonymous, ed. 1927. Histoire du Seigneur de Bayart, le chevalier sans paour et sans reprouche. Transcription de l'édition parisienne de 1527. Paris: Droz. | pp. 7-149 (Prologue to Chapter 43 inclusive). |
1573-1596 | prose | 30,028 | Valois, Marguerite de | 158x-valois-autograph-p | Viennot. Eliane, ed. 1998. Marguerite de Valois. Correspondance 1569-1614. Paris: Champion. | See edition. |